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May 2013

May 20, 2013

Commencement Day Was Mother’s Day at Notre Dame

During his commencement address at Notre Dame University on Pentecost Sunday, Cardinal Dolan reminded Notre...

May 17, 2013

I Will Always Love You, Pentecost Sunday Edition

I’m officially excited about Pentecost. Some of the readings of the last week have been...

May 16, 2013

Cardinal Dolan, Andrew Cuomo and Our Limited Attention Spans

Cardinal Dolan has been talking about the evil of abortion for some time -- offering...

May 14, 2013

Making Abortion Unthinkable

“A primary mandate of our day,” is “to make abortion unthinkable by infusing the culture...

May 12, 2013

The Mother’s Day Challenge

While speaking at the Ball for Life in Manhattan the other night, I suggested we...

May 12, 2013

On Mothering

Via Pat Gohn's new book on women, Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious: A spiritual mother is...

May 10, 2013

The Catechism of the Catholic Church Is a Welcome Mat to a New, Renewing Life in Christ

The Saga of the Door the Cardinal Didn’t Close When He Wasn’t Even in the...

May 07, 2013

Thanks be to God!

Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God! There is something...

May 07, 2013

They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Whine?

From the Catholic News Agency’s report on Tuesday morning Mass with Pope Francis: Reflecting on...

May 06, 2013

YOU Are Welcome

There was a protest outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue yesterday; I write about...

May 05, 2013

‘God has been very good to me.’

The bishop of Harrisburg, Bishop Joseph P. McFadden, died suddenly and sacramentally on Thursday. In...

May 01, 2013

The Real Freedom to Choose

This is the right, this is our lives: There's nothing soft-focus or saccharine about real...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Be Not of This World

Oh my goodness, the continuity, and the Spirit unleashed! That’s my continued experience of Pope...

April 29, 2013

A New Voice for U.S. Bishops & Women in the Catholic Church

After Jorge Cardinal Bergolio was elected pope, on the morning of his installation Mass, Timothy...

April 29, 2013

How God Makes His Dwelling with Us

“Abandon yourself for Him, learning from this Jesus who in order to give you the...

April 28, 2013

Late-Term Pregnancies Every Day?

There are so many chilling aspects of the new Live Action video from a Bronx,...

April 28, 2013

This Too Will Pass … into Glory!

If we make the right choice -- to live in trusting surrender to God, we...

April 27, 2013

Need to Know

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on the Kermit Gosnell case: The brutality in abortion is intimate,...

April 24, 2013

Lady Thatcher Offers Words to Live — and Legislate By

From Margaret Thatcher, via her funeral homily last week: Christianity offers no easy solutions to...

April 24, 2013

Pope Francis Can’t Do This By Himself!

A reflection on Tuesday's Gospel reading: are we men and women of ...encouragement, enthusiastically trying...

April 22, 2013

‘I can’t hate you because whatever you brought into Boston was enough hate for a good long while’

There is something ">here that is trying to make Christianity real, in real time, in...

April 21, 2013

Got Virtue?

This comes from Cardinal O'Malley in Boston on the first Sunday after the marathon bombing:...

April 21, 2013

I Love How Vatican Radio Translates F1 with Three Exclamation Points!!!

In his Regina Caeli address Sunday, Pope Francis said: Jesus wants to establish a relationship...

April 21, 2013

A Good and Holy Thing

How do we live faith? Where do we begin? Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix offers a...

April 19, 2013

Habemus Papam!

Eight years ago today: The new pope would say a few days later: My real...

April 18, 2013

Know God!

"We believe in God who is Father, who is Son, who is Holy Spirit. We...

April 17, 2013

Why Does God Allow an Eight-Year-Old Boy to be Killed Waiting for His Dad at the Finish Line?

From a summary of a conversation on The Good Catholic Life, a Boston-area radio program...

April 16, 2013

After the Boston Marathon Attack: What Can We Do?

God be with those who suffer because of yesterday's attack at the Boston marathon. What...

April 11, 2013

Will You Be a Saint? Make a Choice.

It is the only thing that matters. That was the message Archbishop Charles J. Chaput...

April 08, 2013

‘There Is No More Room for Anxiety’

With Pope Benedict XVI in the background praying for us, I figure we have a...