Politics
Nicene Guy

On Enemies of the Church

In my previous post, I took stock of the possibility that President Obama is an enemy of the Church. Supposing that he is, what would

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Sacraments
Bob Waruszewski

Avoiding Burnout – Rediscovering the Sabbath

In a culture always on the go, days, weeks and months blur together. We can sometimes be running so fast on the treadmill of life that we forget to stop and take a break. Sure, we might take a week…

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Columnists
Amanda Castro

Yearbook of Saints

It’s that time of year again. Yellow school buses travel the roads bringing happy and cheerful students to school. There, students gleefully and attentively participate

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Politics
Nicene Guy

Barack Obama: Enemy of the Church?

There is a meme which is beginning to make its rounds on facebook stating simply that President Obama is an enemy of the Church. Given his tyrannical HHS mandate, which seems to be specifically targeted at Catholics…

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Columnists
Brandon Vogt

Support a Catholic Speaker Month 2012

A few years ago, Matt Warner launched a cool project he called “Support a Catholic Speaker Month”. It began with a poll where you could vote for your favorite Catholic speakers. After a few days of voting, the top 100 speakers…

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Life
Amanda Sloan

Be The Bride

Recently at daily Mass I, once again, caught myself day-dreaming about my future wedding, and weddings in general.  As I stood in the church that

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New Media
Royce Hood

IT at The Fest

Ignitum Today (IT) blogger to speak at The Fest. Over 38,000 people are expected to attend the Diocese of Cleveland’s Family Festival. Entertainment includes Grammy

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Single Life
Elizabeth Hillgrove

Vocation Confirmation

Last year, Sr. Lisa challenged me to examine my vocation and I did… kind of. Tony called me on my bull you-know-what, correctly so. I spent the next while asking a lot of questions I never wanted to fully explore.

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Religion
Anna Williams

Suffering to sanctity

If it causes pain, it cannot be true. This principle, it seems to me, is an unspoken premise underlying the general public’s passionate opposition to

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Single Life
Rachel Zamarron

Living Our Vocations

Life has a way of coming up and tossing you the unexpected, and I encountered a new twist in life just recently when I got

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Mom Can You Ask Dad?

Working with teens, most of my favorite questions deal with Mary. Mary is awesome, and there are a lot of misconceptions about what Catholics do

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Married Life
Ryan M

The Art of Over and Over Again

The curly-haired woman with the bright orange shirt looks up, gently plays a chord on her guitar, and for the third time this morning, kills

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New Media
Theresa Noble

LCWR & NPR – Airing Our Dirty Laundry

I have always loved Fresh Air with Terry Gross on National Public Radio (NPR). She is the perfect interviewer, intelligent, compassionate, and always knowledgeable about

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Sacraments
Ryan Kraeger

Hunger and Thirst

In March of 2007, less than a month after I had turned twenty-two years old, I was deployed to Afghanistan with my engineer unit. I

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