Catholic Stand – Page 336 – Living the Truth the Church Teaches

\”What If I\’m Wrong About NFP?\”

Jay Boyd August 15, AD2013 78 Comments

“What if I’m wrong about NFP?” No matter where you stand on the use of NFP and the need for “serious reasons”, you can ask

Forget Sanity; Pray for Holiness

Patti Maguire Armstrong August 14, AD2013 3 Comments

Christians everywhere are grieving the loss of sanity through loss of Christian values. Some predict that when things get bad enough, people will come to

Butt Rag

Christina Weber August 14, AD2013 1 Comment

Bringing our uglies into the light begins to dismantle the hold our vices have on us. Opening our chest of less than stellar moments encourages

Honest Abe and Dagger John

Donald R. McClarey August 13, AD2013 3 Comments

Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864) of New York, was a titan within the Catholic Church in America in the nineteenth century. Overseeing with skill the explosive growth

Books for Catholic Decision-Makers

John Darrouzet August 12, AD2013 5 Comments

Below are links to books for decision-makers organized by relevant questions and answers that relate to particular milestones along the Decision-Maker\’s Path ™. Books for

Why Is Today Significant?

Autumn Jones August 12, AD2013 1 Comment

As a grad student in journalism, a number of my assignments come in the form of responding to a question, by way of an essay,

The Tragedy of Marriage

Leticia Adams August 10, AD2013 3 Comments

All of these things are my own personal observation based on my personal experience, so I am not expert on anything other than my own

Let’s Stop Nitpicking Abortion

Birgit Jones August 9, AD2013 1 Comment

Sometimes the forest is ignored because too much time has been spent concentrating on the trees. The big picture loses out to the nitpicking of

EEK! The Millennials Are Leaving the Church!

Anthony S. Layne August 8, AD2013 13 Comments

Christianity has not been tried hard and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World

For St. Peter\’s sake!

Anabelle Hazard August 8, AD2013 3 Comments

I first met Pope John Paul II as “Mr. Seymour.” My cousins and I were playing a game of “funeral,” and trailing a tricycle with

A Catholic Amway To End Sweatshop Economics

Francis August 7, AD2013 12 Comments

I wanted to follow up on last month’s article WWJD About Sweatshops. I think for many people, just the mere suggestion that you oppose sweatshop

Humility and Devotion Through Veiling

Michelle Fritz August 7, AD2013 8 Comments

It has been years since I first felt God quietly calling me. At first I couldn’t understand what He was asking me to do. As time passed

A Young Widow On How to Treat Young Widows

Tammy Ruiz Ziegler, RN CPLC August 6, AD2013 19 Comments

In my work with grieving families, much of the coaching I do is to help young grieving parents communicate their needs to their friends/relatives so

The Common Framework of Human Knowledge

Bob Drury August 5, AD2013 4 Comments

Chana Messinger posted a lucid essay challenging the contention that science and theology, as forms of human knowledge, address different subject matter and therefore cannot

Why Didn\’t Someone Share the Truth with Us?

Joel and Lisa Schmidt August 4, AD2013 22 Comments

It was an interesting NFP Awareness week at our blog The Practicing Catholic. We wrote a week-long series about natural family planning, and we lost

Life Created by Feelings? So Says the Latest Modern Heresy

Jennifer Hartline August 3, AD2013 6 Comments

MSNBC\’s Melissa Harris-Perry has a wacky theory for us that she believes should be the determining criteria for human life. Life itself, it\’s very beginnings,

The Language of Tradition

Patrick Pierce August 2, AD2013 5 Comments

At the very edges of the culture you sometimes hear about how tradition is coming back. You hear how the John Paul II generation is

A Purple Cross With Pink Flowers

Emmanuel Joseph August 2, AD2013 5 Comments

A while back I heard somebody talking about a gift she once received, it was a handmade cross painted in purple with little pink flowers

The Right to Own Property is Important, but Not Absolute

Jason Hall August 1, AD2013 8 Comments

Our political discourse often consists of a back-and-forth discussion between two seemingly irreconcilable extremes. Many on the Left attack those on the Right as radical