Been Thinking About Heaven
Leticia Adams
January 27, AD2014
7 Comments
I have been thinking a lot about Heaven lately. I’ve been discussing it with my kids and my husband and here are some of the
Prayer: A Season for Everything
Abigail C. R. Gripshover
January 25, AD2014
5 Comments
“There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 “…but though he has permitted man to consider time in
Finding the One, True Church: Connect the Dots Approach
Gary Zimak
January 24, AD2014
9 Comments
Teach me, LORD, your way that I may walk in your truth. (Ps 86:11) Sounds simple, doesn’t it? I can’t imagine any Christian looking at
My First Fifty Years: What I’ve Learned
Anthony S. Layne
January 23, AD2014
4 Comments
Eight years ago, I was playing around with Microsoft® Money and found an add-in for investment advice. As part of the program, it asked
Catechism: You Don’t Know Squat
Anabelle Hazard
January 23, AD2014
18 Comments
It’s really too bad that while the legal profession mandates continuing education for its members to maintain their licenses, the Catholic Church won’t revoke a
Can Suffering be a Gift from God?
Lisa Shefferly-Gillay
January 22, AD2014
16 Comments
Recently, I went to Confession before Mass. I confessed my lack of trust in God as it applies to a current situation in my life.
Prayer: Nothing Impossible
Autumn Jones
January 22, AD2014
2 Comments
“… for nothing will be impossible for God” –Luke 1:37 Christmas vacation as a graduate student is nothing short of spectacular. No more papers to
Every Life Matters
Michelle Fritz
January 22, AD2014
7 Comments
Today in Washington D.C. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate in the annual March for Life. They come from all around the
The Truth About Premature Babies and Pro-Life Arguments
Tammy Ruiz Ziegler, RN CPLC
January 21, AD2014
8 Comments
As a professional who cares for childbearing losses and as a Catholic who believes in the sacredness of life, I pay very close attention to
This is My Calling, This is My Vocation
Melanie Jean Juneau
January 20, AD2014
11 Comments
Mothering a large family is my calling and my vocation. As a result, I am a conundrum: a rather outmoded sort of woman, ridiculed by modern career
Dawkins Is More than Zeal
Bob Drury
January 20, AD2014
22 Comments
Oftentimes the new atheists, including Richard Dawkins, are dismissed as offering nothing new, but simply expressing an evangelic fervor in spreading atheism. This could not
Can Miscarriage and Abortion Grief Coexist Peacefully?
Joel and Lisa Schmidt
January 18, AD2014
13 Comments
To be perfectly honest, we were feeling pretty good about things. As part of the diaconate formation in our diocese, each candidate is required to
Now Is the Appointed Time
Susan Anne
January 16, AD2014
8 Comments
Beginnings and endings, finite measures of years meted out for us again and again, season after season, generation after generation, age after age—all amount to
How to Find Faith at the Movies: The Road Back
John Darrouzet
January 15, AD2014
2 Comments
In this series of posts HOW TO FIND FAITH AT THE MOVIES, John invites readers to take a hero’s journey in search of faith through
Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood: Are the Cookies Finally Crumbling?
Birgit Jones
January 15, AD2014
43 Comments
They come to your door, or stand outside Wal-Mart, fresh faced, smiling little girls, selling their cookies. It’s an image as American as apple pie,
Edith Stein on Living Fully in the Present
Jeffrey McLeod, PhD
January 14, AD2014
7 Comments
Edith Stein was an admirer of St. Thomas Aquinas, and like Aquinas, she understood that words mean things, but they do not always mean them unambiguously. President Bill Clinton, for example, testified that what he
Conspiracy Theories and Catholicism: Vampires
Foxfier
January 14, AD2014
13 Comments
Albino assassin monks, secret Bible books, pagan Santas and secret councils—this is a series about popular culture claims related to Catholicism. If you have a
God is All About Re-Gifting
Gabriel Garnica
January 13, AD2014
1 Comment
As secular society brushes off Christmas for another year, Catholics know very well that Christmas never truly ends because, at the end of the day,
Humanae Vitae: Questions of Conscience
Kevin Aldrich
January 13, AD2014
33 Comments
This is the fourth in a six-part series on Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s profound and heroic 1968 encyclical. The series’ introduction is here. The
The Prophesy of a Christmas Stamp?
Karol Henseler Orsborn
January 10, AD2014
8 Comments
During a recent homily, the priest told a story that I feel is extremely profound and important for today, perhaps even more so than he
NYC Cabbie: I Decorated St. Pat’s for Christmas
Jamey Brown
January 10, AD2014
3 Comments
Yes, I decorated Saint Patrick’s Church for Christmas. Not Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, or Old Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Mulberry Street down in Soho,
How To Be A Biblical Literalist
JoAnna Wahlund
January 9, AD2014
7 Comments
A few weeks ago, a Facebook friend posted the article \”Everyone\’s a Biblical Literalist Until You Bring Up Gluttony\” by Rachel Held Evans to her
