As popular as weight loss and other health-related New Year’s resolutions are, the ubiquitous “I’m gonna make this the best year ever” and “I’ll finally make my dream come true” resolutions remain. Folks are still willing to buy into the irrational but admirable optimism that a new calendar year brings. More mundane but likely more statistically realistic, though, are …
This past year I had to cut all soy and whey protein from my diet for my infant son’s immature digestive system. You know the secret to success for this lover of cream, milk and all things cheese? Bacon. I didn’t miss the dairy so much if I had a piece of bacon. This has …
Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) said something – actually, tens of thousands of things – that it would do us a tremendous amount of good to meditate upon. In his book Behold the Pierced One, he wrote “[P]rayer was the central act of the person of Jesus…this person is constituted by the act of …
I went to Home Depot on Christmas Eve morning to get supplies for a weekend job. As I parked my truck I saw among the dozen or more people loading their cars with stuff, a young girl with a baby weaving her way through the parked cars. I thought she was just another shopper looking …
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence just released a five-hundred plus page report detailing CIA interrogation techniques. The report has the US talking about torture again since, well, the last time revelations of the inhumane treatment of detainees in the war on terror surfaced. As shocking as the report is, “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) have their …
If you are pro-life and you have never been to either the West Coast Walk For Life or the March for Life in D.C., it’s time to put them both on your bucket list. Right now is that time of year when pro-lifers start making their plans to head to either coast for a pro-life good …
There’s still time left for the Epic Holiday Giveaway (see Rafflecopter below as well). These 5 books, generously sponsored by Sophia Institute Press, are going to have a new owner on Friday, and that could be you. Here’s a quick synopsis of each from the site. Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists: How to Win Souls Without Losing Your Own …
On today’s Feast of the Immaculate Conception, we ask a couple important questions about Mary’s virginity: Did Mary have other Children? Did Jesus have biological brothers? These questions are important to many, but especially important to those who are on their way to joining/re-joining the Catholic Church. Because of the copious amount of historical and …
Well, I think that sounds like a pretty silly question, don’t you? After all, what 32 year-old Jewish man doesn’t have chiseled abs? [Tell me I’m not alone in thinking that.] Some have posited that Jesus couldn’t have had those defined stomach muscles that so many intend to plan to intend to aspire to…someday…because, you …
Call it “the hill”, “the bubble”, “the light to the nations”, “the bootcamp”, or whatever you’d like; but here’s how you know if you truly call Franciscan University of Steubenville “home”. You’ve played “spot the homeschooler” You honed your craft of picking out the backpack runners and pride yourself on your accuracy. You’re either in …
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