Life
“Serious” Catholics
“We may never be faced with the big decision for or against Christ, but we are faced fifty times a day with the little decisions
Amanda Sloan
November 5, AD 2012
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Columnists
It’s Time to Find Your Featherbed
A couple of months ago I logged-on to find the following e-mail appropriately shuffled into my high priority inbox: “How you do keep your hope?
Kristin Detloff
November 5, AD 2012
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Books
From the Belly of the Dragon
“Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?” This is the question pondered by Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner at a forced-labor camp in
Emi Parker
November 3, AD 2012
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Columnists
We Need More Death
Mary Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour You will die. A friend of mine sells life insurance. He told me that every time someone new
Edmund Mitchell
November 2, AD 2012
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Columnists
poverty of spirit
A few months ago, I quit the full-time job I’d landed right out of school, married a college senior, moved four states away, and planned
Mary C. Tillotson
November 1, AD 2012
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Columnists
All That I Didn’t Leave Behind
On Good Friday, 2008, fewer than 24 hours before my wife and I joined the Catholic Church, I spoke to my father-in-law on the
Nic Davidson
November 1, AD 2012
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Columnists
The Borrowed Baby
***Warning:This is a Crying Post, Grab Your Kleenex*** Three years ago, we lost our Bernadette half-way through pregnancy to a knot in her cord.
Rebecca Frech
November 1, AD 2012
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Entertainment
The chef and the boy-band
Judge me if you will, but I’m completely unimpressed by celebrity culture. While I’m sure that these are all perfectly lovely people in real
Brianna Heldt
October 31, AD 2012
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Columnists
6 One issue votes and others
The one issue voter is dead. Today’s elections are no longer about a single issue. Here is a list of One Issues: Abortion Euthanasia Embryonic
J.Q. Tomanek
October 31, AD 2012
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Columnists
3 Reasons This Protestant Became Catholic
In January of 2006, just short of my 20th birthday, I stood in front a priest, my friends, and 2,000 people at a parish and
Ryan Eggenberger
October 31, AD 2012
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Married Life
Same-Sex Marriage…Ending Discrimination?
It is amazing the way that the same-sex marriage debate has taken such a strangle hold on discussion and commentary in Western society. Who would
Bernard Toutounji
October 30, AD 2012
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Columnists
New Catholic Podcast Announced for the New Evangelization
Greg and Jennifer Willits, co-hosts of the Catholics Next Door, formerly on the Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Catholic Channel, announced the re-launch of their podcast program
Ryan Eggenberger
October 30, AD 2012
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Religion
The Smiling Pope’s Letter to Mark Twain: Humor, Hitler, and Three Different Johns
What if Cardinal Timothy Dolan became Pope? That’s probably a long-shot, but it’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more especially as his star
Brandon Vogt
October 29, AD 2012
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Columnists
Clothe the Naked
“The Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, whie Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him.
Ryan Kraeger
October 29, AD 2012
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Entertainment
5 YouTube Videos that Turn Heads TOWARDS Catholicism
Although not surprising, it is astonishing that Catholicism is viewed by the world so negatively. As Peter Kreeft mentions in his talk Seven Reasons Everyone
TJ Burdick
October 27, AD 2012
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Bioethics
Death with Dignity and Other Euphemisms
Our society is very fond of euphemisms. We like to wrap up difficult ideas and realities with words that make us feel warm and fuzzy,
Theresa Noble
October 27, AD 2012
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Columnists
Controlling Passion: Fire as Emotion and Desire
Remember that series we started? With this handy-dandy little reference sheet? Well, you’ll probably need the Fire Nation blurb for this post. In the Avatar
Ink and Quill
October 27, AD 2012
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Life
Cloistered Nuns Secure Worldwide Music Distribution
Amazing. Beautiful. Necessary. – It’s difficult to find the right words to describe the angelically perfect sound of Advent At Ephesus – an upcoming
Royce Hood
October 26, AD 2012
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Columnists
Perks of Embarrassment
After almost a year of ballet I’m still super horrible. I never realized how physically demanding it was, how literally every muscle in your body
Fabiola Garza
October 26, AD 2012
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“…when a woman produces male hormones”
I have heard the defense many times and it ends conversations. “Men can speak about abortion when they get a uterus.” At first,
J.Q. Tomanek
October 24, AD 2012
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Relationships
Are We All Sexual Perverts?
Recently the Sydney Opera House in Australia hosted the Festival of Dangerous Ideas which brings together a host of speakers on a variety of controversial topics. Not
Bernard Toutounji
October 23, AD 2012
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