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January 2013

January 22, 2013

Remember Doctor Nathanson

I've had the late Bernard Nathanson on my mind all day. Perhaps because I started...

January 19, 2013

Have You Prayed Today?

Specifically the first part of a nine day novena marking the 40th anniversary of Roe...

January 17, 2013

Have I Encouraged Someone Today?

Don’t you love the passage from Hebrews that happened to be the first reading at...

January 16, 2013

How Do We Live Authentic Faith?

“It is not enough by far to have taken radical initial steps of conversion and...

January 14, 2013

Am I Totally Available to God?

The reflection in Magnificat today, that beautiful daily devotional, is on discipleship and discipline and...

January 14, 2013

Witnessing to New York for Life

Get yourself up early if you're in the Manhattan area for Mass and a prayer...

January 13, 2013

In God We Trust

This morning, as he delivered his Sunday Angelus message, the pope talked about rediscovering the...

January 12, 2013

Communicate, Already!

From Blessed John Paul II at World Youth Day in Manila in 1995: "God so...

January 11, 2013

A Few Words about Freedom

From George Weigel again in his book Practicing Catholic: The false humanism of freedom misconstrued...

January 11, 2013

About Dorothy Day

George Weigel writes in his book Practicing Catholic: Despite her political myopia about the likes...

January 11, 2013

Don’t Worry, Be Holy

What God wants most of all for each one of you is that you should...

January 11, 2013

Did I Do Any of These Things Today?

It seems like a good end-of-day question. The sort that directs the mind and works...

January 11, 2013

The Phone Call Ed Koch Remembers

From an interview piece with the former mayor of New York: Koch was “heartbroken,” he...

January 11, 2013

Incarnational Desire: Wise men still follow the light

Our hearts are restless. Can it be denied? It’s the reason we look every which...

January 09, 2013

At First, I Thought This Was a Typo

"It is said that one night when Havel went off to bed, he discovered it...

January 09, 2013

How Can We Witness to Our Faith with Love?

Even in the media? My friends Kim Daniels and Scot Landry talk about being better...

January 06, 2013

The Magi, the Saints, and Us

On the Feast of the Epiphany, a Catholic priest in New York, Fr. George W....

January 05, 2013

Living a Whole Life

Hugh Jackman talks about his father: ‘I would recall conversations Dad and I had about...

January 05, 2013

Anything Is Possible with God

It's the message of Christmas and Easter, isn't it? This comes from Saint Augustine via...

January 04, 2013

Are You a Catholic in New England Who Feels Called to Defend the Church in the Public Square?

Read and pray about the upcoming Catholic Voices USA training in Massachusetts in March. An...

January 04, 2013

Saint on Tour

Don Bosco’s relics are currently on tour in Britain. Why would anyone ever go to...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Religion is Okay, As Long as It Don’t Mean Nothing

An observation from the late Bill Buckley ... as down the slope we continue slip...

December 31, 2012

Why Bother Fighting for Religious Freedom?

It's about love of God, as John Garvey, president of the Catholic University of America...

December 31, 2012

‘God Help Us If We Start Giving Government Officials the Right to Dictate Our Conscience’: Colson on Religious Liberty

As the Obama administration forces the likes of Hobby Lobby and Frank O'Brien into making...

December 31, 2012

Be Raised to the Most High

From Saint Augustine, via dailygospel.org: Christ was to come in our flesh, not another, neither...

December 31, 2012

Do You Know About Frank O’Brien?

He's fighting for religious liberty. His and all of ours. Don't forget the businessman trying...

December 31, 2012

Being Reasonable about Faith and Reason

If you're looking for something to do with the Amazon gift card you got for...

December 31, 2012

What Are You Most Looking Forward to in 2013?

There is a welcome, refreshing “starting again” feeling about the new year, isn’t there? I...

December 25, 2012

God Has Done the Impossible! Do We Believe?

Today in his Ubi et Orbi message, Pope Benedict challenges us with the reality of...

December 25, 2012

Let Us Go to Bethlehem

From B16 at the Christmas vigil Mass: Let us go over to Bethlehem, says the...