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
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
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
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
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,
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 while back I heard somebody talking about a gift she once received, it was a handmade cross painted in purple with little pink flowers
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
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
I am 72 years old and wish I could, right now, be with those wonderful young people in Rio for the 28th World Youth Day.
The Internet has revolutionized communication and allowed ordinary citizens access to wider audiences, as well as an ability to disseminate information and opinions to ever
A dissenting or \”cafeteria Catholic\” will often assert that as long as one follows his conscience, he is in good standing with the Church. Well,
In this age where speed of communication is everything, where instant gratification is a bit slow, where people are obsessed with knowing what they will
When I was a child, I moved through life as if I was on a five-lane freeway. I traveled fast, full of confidence, and feeling
A confident-appearing older man looking at the interviewer beside the camera says: “I envy the little old lady who sits in front of the T.V.
