This incredible story came to me first via family. St. Joseph Parish in Maumee, Ohio posted this note to their Facebook page on Wednesday (it has already been viewed and shared thousands of times since then): As many of you know, our seminarian Deacon Scott Carroll has been battling cancer for some time. Although Scott [...]
It’s May, Mary’s month. Statues of Our Lady are crowned with spring flowers, and Catholic families are saying the family Rosary every day, as Pope Francis recommended. What better time to share pop songs about Our Lady? Let’s start with the the King of Rock-n-Roll, Elvis Presley. Here is his great old song “Miracle of [...]
Mohammed Sohel Rana owned a business. Like a good businessman, he hoped to grow his operation by expanding his facilities to increase production. He added three new floors to his 5-story building, where he leased space to several textile factories near Dhaka, Bangladesh. But Mr. Rana, it seems, took short-cuts. He built without a permit. [...]
During an InHuman demonstration outside a late-term abortionist’s office today a woman who survived an abortion and proved she was quite viable outside the womb was told to “shut up” by some guy walking by. Students for Life shared via Twitter: MAN shouts at abortion survivor @melissaohden to “Shut up!” We will NOT shut up! [...]
Yesterday’s violence in Boston was senselessness enough; in the context of the last months and years, it feels like piling on. We are weary now in a way we weren’t on, say, September 10, 2001 (not to over-stretch comparisons). Some days it seems like a great levee is about to break and all the darkness that civilization [...]
Emil Kapaun was born in 1916 on a farm near Pilsen, Kansas. In June of 1940, he was ordained a Catholic priest for the Diocese of Wichita and soon became a US Army chaplain. In late 1950, he was captured by Communist forces in North Korea and imprisoned—he died in May of 1951. The heroism [...]
Does anyone else feel like one night, not too long ago, they went to bed in a reasonably normal world and woke up to a world scripted by Albert Camus? My hand’s up. Way, way up. I know I’m still supposed to be bubbling over with Easter joy (and believe me, I’m doing my due [...]
It is becoming increasingly clear that our Pope Francis is a pope who, as Stephen White put it, smells like his sheep. He is a man of his people, and a father who communicates to his people in a fashion that they seem to like. More evidence of this is a means to prayer that [...]
Today is Day 1 of the Divine Mercy novena, and it comes not a moment too soon. As Billy Graham put it (actually, it was his wife): “If God doesn’t punish America, he’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.” A lot of Americans feel that way right now. Legalization of same-sex marriage, in one [...]
Yesterday, March 25, we usually celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation: one of the holiest days most worthy of honor throughout the year. It falls during Holy Week this year so the Church has moved the observation of this solemnity to next Monday, but this confluence of days makes for an interesting meditation on choice [...]
