Pro Patria Mori
**WARNING: This post contains photos of war, which should be disturbing for many.** “In Flander”s Field the poppies grow….” is a poem I immediately assosciate
Sarah Babbs
May 28, AD 2012
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Columnists
NEEDED: Motherhood
Greetings Ignitum readers! My apologies for missing my last posting here a few weeks back. I’m sure you were all wondering where I was (uhh hum) and/or
Leah Jacobson
May 25, AD 2012
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NFP and MR.
You may have to bear with me. The indescribably talented Emily Zanotti presented a wonderful case for adding some zip, jazz, and flare to the
J.Q. Tomanek
May 25, AD 2012
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Men's Issues
Door-to-Door Wake Up
He threw me off when, after a few fun jovial exchanges between me and my roommate, he pointed down at my leg and said, “Is that real?!”
Elizabeth Hillgrove
May 24, AD 2012
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Jobs
A Church in the Modern World
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The modern world has successfully graduated from high school and is now ready to attend University where its ideals
Nathaniel Gotcher
May 23, AD 2012
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Life
Farewell, My Dear
This is a poem I felt compelled to write when I was thinking of one of my mom’s uncles, her godfather at baptism. I don’t
Mariella Hunt
May 23, AD 2012
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Life
What Defines a Manly Man?
Are you familiar with Friedrich Nietzsche’s übermensch? It’s pretty hard to define what it really means, but for starters, it would have to refer to
Jared Dale Combista
May 21, AD 2012
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Life
NFP and PR
A week after I got married, I had to visit one of those urgent care clinics for antibiotics (if you think this is too much
Emily Zanotti
May 16, AD 2012
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Career
How to succeed* in DC
This month, hundreds of college students and recent grads — many of them aspiring politicians — will flock to the nation’s capital for coveted government-related
Anna Williams
May 7, AD 2012
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Family
Why We Need Work
Last week The Daily Caller broke the news feature about the Labor Department attempting to ban farm chores. When I alerted my dad who is a life-long
Rachel Zamarron
May 3, AD 2012
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Columnists
2.0: The Spirit of the New Evangelization
“In the beginning was the Word, and Word was with God, and the Word was God. ” Words are intensely powerful, most likely because they
Nathaniel Gotcher
April 25, AD 2012
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Lessons in the Chinook
“Man’s curiosity searches past and future And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation
Ryan Kraeger
April 18, AD 2012
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Women's Issues
Don't step on the crack, you'll break your mother's back
How to convince someone to be pro-choice. Or better yet, how to convince someone to be pro-abortion: Get them addicted to crack. Consequently, crack numbs
Elizabeth Hillgrove
April 17, AD 2012
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Life
To Know and to Love
It’s a commonplace we’ve all heard in one form or another: “Love is blind.” But is it really? It may be true that our passions,
Ink and Quill
April 14, AD 2012
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What is a "low quality" of life?
Frida Kahlo – self portrait Frida Kahlo is one of the most important figures of 20th-century Mexican culture. Born in 1907 in Mexico City best
Andrew and Cristina
April 12, AD 2012
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Life
Is the Internet Real?
Second question: If so, can we save it? To the first, I think the question is rather odd. However, it is odd because it is
Brent Stubbs
April 10, AD 2012
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Columnists
Living poverty
In the latest installment of USA Today’s On Religion series, veteran journalist Judith Valente writes about Benedictine nuns in Atchison, Kansas. One choice sentence: “Whatever
Anna Williams
April 9, AD 2012
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New Media
Dignitas Magazine: For All Catholic Women and the Men who Love Them
Happy Easter Everyone! Just wanted to share my cousin’s online magazine. First issue was released today! Check them out! (That’s three exclamation point’s in four
Ryan Kraeger
April 8, AD 2012
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To Learn Silence
As a perpetual chatterbox I approach the mysteries of Holy Week with mixed emotions. The stark, somber tones of the liturgies are in direct contrast
Rachel Zamarron
April 5, AD 2012
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Jobs
Information Overload
Technology can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a way to learn more about God, but also waste countless hours. We
Bob Waruszewski
April 4, AD 2012
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Career
Ethics and Morals in the Workplace
Doctors who do abortions. Lawyers who defend the guilty. Executives who lie and cheat just to raise company revenues. Sound familiar to you? But of
Jared Dale Combista
April 2, AD 2012
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