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Parents: Are Your Kids Being Called to not-Marriage?
By Matthew Warner | Most of my generation grew up not knowing the word "vocation." And I mean vocation in the sense of something in life that you are divinely made for and called to. And specifically, I mean Marriage vs. (what I'll here call)...
How Catholic Is Your Child’s School?
By CHARLOTTE HAYS | How Catholic is your child’s school? There’s a new tool available to help parents answer that question. The Catholic Identity Assessment program has been developed by the Rochester, N.Y.-based Catholic Education...
Italian Catholic Website Setting Internet Records, Ascension Thursday Sunday, and Much More!
By TITO EDWARDS | Italian Catholic Website Setting Internet Viewership Records - Sandro Magister, www.chiesa Ascension Thursday Sunday - Fr. Z's Blog Tolerance Looks Like Rainbows & Smells Like Burning Churches – The Pulpit Why I Don’t Care...
LOL Books
By Simcha Fisher | Gosh, I'm ready for some light reading. The books stacked up on the baby bed (why not? The baby doesn't sleep there. The baby doesn't sleep at all!) are all great, but they are not exactly a laugh riot. I finished Kristin...
Answering the Question of Suffering, Without Words
By Jennifer Fulwiler | Earlier this week someone asked me how to address the issue of suffering when chatting with atheists. I was a guest on Catholic Answers Live, and a caller explained that he had been trying to reach out to an atheist...
Navigating Medjugorje
By Mark Shea | A reader writes: I understand your abundance of caution in discerning whether the Medjugorje phenomenon is truly of divine origin, but you seem to have taken your disbelief a step further to veiled hostility and subtle...
A Combox Atheist In The Real World
By Pat Archbold | I have always presumed that comment box on Catholic sites (or any religious sites) provided a unique distance and anonymity that allows commenters to behave badly. Among the most misbehaved are atheist commenters who prowl...
Ten Reasons I'm Doomed This Summer
By Simcha Fisher | When you think about it, we’d have to be crazy not to take all nine kids and a possible husky camping in a rented yurt this summer. I mean, think of all the points in favor of this “plan,” by which I mean we were supposed to...
Installed at Baltimore’s Cathedral, Archbishop Lori Draws Line in Sand for Courageous Faith
By JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND | BALTIMORE — During an installation replete with striking pageantry, sounding trumpets and an enthusiastic crowd of 2,000, Archbishop William Lori passionately defended the cause of religious freedom as a defining issue...
Physician's Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment: Helpful or a New Threat?
By CHARLOTTE HAYS | WASHINGTON — A patient in a nursing home or hospital is increasingly likely to be asked to sign a form with a benign-sounding name: Physician’s Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment. A brightly colored document that is one...