Catholic Stand – Page 316 – Living the Truth the Church Teaches

To Lose Sight of the Shore

Michelle Fritz August 6, AD2014 12 Comments

I sat quietly in a small room at the hospital waiting to pick up x-rays to take to my doctor. I had discovered a lump

A Lesson of Beauty in the Wake of Death

Tammy Ruiz Ziegler, RN CPLC August 6, AD2014 4 Comments

Our little city has been reeling. In a very short time, there were two deaths so compelling that they each independently made international news: here and

Lost in the city

Autumn Jones August 5, AD2014 4 Comments

He walked into the church in the early morning hours with only socks on his feet, no shoes, and a torn shirt. He walked to

God’s Gift to Man–The Transforming Power of Music

Bob Kurland August 5, AD2014 10 Comments

“Music has power to soothe the savage breast.” William Congreve, The Mourning Bride “This so-called ‘music,’ they would have to concede, is in some way

Everyone Is Wrong About Sex

Matthew Tyson August 4, AD2014 72 Comments

In case you missed it, I used my debut post on Catholic Stand to suggest that contraception may not be the great and mighty liberator

Conspiracies & Catholicism: Witchcraft

Foxfier August 4, AD2014 13 Comments

This installment of Conspiracies & Catholicism seems kind of redundant after last week’s article on magic, but I’m looking more at the “everyone knows” about

Richard Dawkins and Child Abuse

Bob Drury August 4, AD2014 27 Comments

For Richard Dawkins the ideal of education is to teach children how to think rather than what to think (The God Delusion, p. 327). Nevertheless,

But I Don’t Know How to Pray – Being God’s Mouthpiece

Kerri Lynn Bishop August 2, AD2014 8 Comments

I lay there, cuddled in bed with my littlest guy and reminded him that we needed to say bedtime prayers before our story. He looked

The Ocean of God’s Mercy

Susan Anne August 1, AD2014 13 Comments

The cool waters of the shoreline keep lapping at my ankles, and I sink deeper into the spiky sand with the pull of each outgoing

Heaven Is For Children

Victor Ajluni, MD August 1, AD2014 2 Comments

“Unless you turn and become as children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3) I was doing some reflecting on this

How Not to Run an Experiment

Nicholas Senz July 31, AD2014 9 Comments

A study published in the journal Cognitive Science has led its authors to the conclusion that children “exposed” to religious ideas have greater difficulty discerning fact from

Scientific Geniuses and Their Jesuit Collaborators

Andrew Kassebaum July 31, AD2014 9 Comments

Herbert Butterfield, the influential twentieth-century historian, identified the Scientific Revolution as “one of the great episodes in human history,” which, along with the rise of

Are We Special? The Anthropic Coincidences*

Bob Kurland July 31, AD2014 11 Comments

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth—the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For

Realism: Incarnation, Relics, and Buddy Holly’s Glasses

Jeffrey McLeod, PhD July 29, AD2014 5 Comments

The philosophical error of our times is to stay stuck inside our heads seeking meaning and coherence in subjectivity, a meaning and coherence that subjectivity

Catholic Dads Must Read Scripture!

Matthew James Christoff July 28, AD2014 9 Comments

Jesus was a master teacher, the greatest teacher who has ever lived, for He is the Only Son of God. There can be no human

Catholic Liberal Education Today

Kevin Aldrich July 28, AD2014 5 Comments

Wisdom and virtue The term Catholic liberal education means an education that is (1) Catholic, as defined by the Catholic Church, and (2) liberal, as

Immigrant Children: Refugees from Failed States

Fr. James Melnick July 28, AD2014 24 Comments

Bishop Anthony Taylor, ordinary of the Diocese of Little Rock, released a statement concerning the young immigrants who have arrived on our borders. If people

Evangelizing for Life – Chemo While Pregnant

Birgit Jones July 25, AD2014 16 Comments

Pope Francis has repeatedly urged us to evangelize. His oft repeated message calls us to share the word of God where we are, saying, “The

Evensong and Icons: Exploring My Faith as an Oxford Student

Anna Rose Meeds July 24, AD2014 7 Comments

When the boys’ choir began to proclaim the psalm, tears pooled up in my eyes. On my last evening in Oxford, a fellow classmate and

Contraception: Sexism’s Greatest Ally

Matthew Tyson July 24, AD2014 85 Comments

Something I have always found so intriguing within the parameters of women’s rights debates and feminist issues is how incredibly sacred contraception is to so

NFP Saved My Life and My Marriage

JoAnna Wahlund July 23, AD2014 2 Comments

The following is a series of blog comments posted by Heidi in the comboxes at the blog Little Catholic Bubble. I found her story so moving and inspirational that

In Defense of the Elders

Michael Lane July 22, AD2014 21 Comments

Action, fantasy, westerns, or any movie including a hero and a villain will usually peek my interest. The Marvel films captured my imagination’s child-like side.