Why Is Today Significant?
Autumn Jones
August 12, AD2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Austin, Texas You Can Keep Your Weirdness
Robbe Lyn Sebesta
July 31, AD2013
21 Comments
I love Austin, Texas. Growing up with two parents who held bachelor college degrees from the University of Texas, I know all about burnt orange,
“But Mary Is My Real Mum”
Melanie Jean Juneau
July 31, AD2013
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God has inscribed a moral code on my heart. It is hidden in my deepest self. Actually, if as an adult, I can block out my own ego
A Lesson on Text Criticism and the Beatles’ Let it Be
Jeffrey McLeod, PhD
July 30, AD2013
101 Comments
One of the commonly asked questions of Sir Paul McCartney is whether his lovely song Let It Be is about the Virgin Mary. It is
Popular Truth
Foxfier
July 30, AD2013
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong; right is right, even if nobody is right.
Closing the Cafeteria: The Importance of Orthodoxy in Lay Life
Michael Lane
July 28, AD2013
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One of my fondest memories at Baylor was when I first walked downstairs and into the wonder that was my dorm\’s cafeteria. Far away from
Lay Evangelist Michael Gormley Video Interview
Edmund Mitchell
July 26, AD2013
2 Comments
Coffee Interviews is a series of video interviews of interesting people I would love to have coffee with and pick their brains. Today I got
Reincarnated or Redeemed?
Victoria Gisondi
July 25, AD2013
12 Comments
The problem with reincarnation is that the belief that our souls are enfleshed again in different forms dismisses any uniqueness of personhood. Not only does
NFP: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust My Body
JoAnna Wahlund
July 24, AD2013
9 Comments
Visit this website for more on NFP Awareness Week. Shortly before my husband and I were married in the Lutheran church (in which we’d
