There may be no better commentary on marital unity than the following excerpt from the Exhortation Before Marriage, which was once commonly used at the
The hardest Lenten penance yet has been having to listen to the pompous fools who dominate the television, radio and internet news media in the
March 2, 2011 As usual, I volunteered for the easier task of waking up our son and his older sister. My wife was left with
Debi Vinnedge is the founder and Executive Director of Children of God for Life — a non-profit, pro-life foundation dedicated to educating the public on
These past two years have seen religious liberty issues rise to the top of the priority list for the Catholic bishops of the United States.
I’ve heard several priests talk about the phenomenon of going to mass at different parishes each Sunday, depending on which mass times are more convenient.
I. Veiling and Truth Theologian Han Urs Von Balthasar once wrote, “We thus [understand] truth as the unveiledness, uncoveredness, disclosedness, and unconcealment of being ….
During the Year of Faith we are asked to understand the nature of faith more clearly. An important question arises: Is the Catholic faith an
“Be nice.” “That’s not nice.” “Wouldn’t it be nice if people would just get along?” Nice is almost as hard to define as the notoriously
The Massachusetts Board of Education recently issued formal “guidance” to the state’s public schools, telling them how to implement new laws protecting against gender identity
Satan, I gotta hand it to ya. You\’re brilliant. Ultimately a loser, but still. Evil and its demoralizing impact on our world is a reality of
Catholics who want to take a stand in our current, apparently threatening, political environment may want to read two books, Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and
The scrupulous man excels at avoiding prudence. He doesn’t want to make judgment calls for fear of being wrong, and he is (perhaps secretly) proud
My perspective on the conflict between the Catholic Church in the U.S. and the Obama administration is a long one. It goes even further back
A Reflective Fictional Story for Lent The sky is dark, as if there is an impending doom that is to be brought upon the face
(Second in a four-part series) The direct and compelling evidence of the strong, arguably causal connection between oral contraceptives (OCPs) and gravely adverse psychosocial outcomes,
Scars Last summer I heard a Priest tell this story during his homily of a time he visited a sick man in the hospital. He
One of the primary claims made by anti-capitalists, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, is that capitalism is somehow opposed to \”the common good.\” Those who don\’t
A few weeks ago, I was participating in a discussion on Abby Johnson’s Facebook page. I can’t remember the exact topic, but I believe Abby
Even as the Cardinals meet in the Conclave to elect the next pope, misunderstandings about the nature of the papacy abound. For example, many people
Father Dwight Longenecker has published a book just in time for Lent called The Gargoyle Code. It\’s a modern riff on CS Lewis\’s masterpiece, The
To the world, it\’s unsettling to imagine a man with global influence and practical power, moving to a small room, in a house of prayer,
