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December 2012

December 03, 2012

Do We Love One Another?

Some of the less charitable news stories emphasize Jeffrey Hillman, the homeless man who Office...

November 2012

November 18, 2012

The Eternal Campaign

I'm using up the remaining minutes on my satellite time on the National Review post-election...

November 13, 2012

‘They give their trust entirely to God and are rewarded for it.’

Pope Benedict Sunday pointed to the greatest challenge of surrender. It is the greatest sacrifice,...

November 07, 2012

Purification & Healing

Here is a reflection for today: God has created us for himself and, in the...

November 01, 2012

Want to Win the Race? Meet these Women. Walk with these Women.

Our culture has an overwhelming treasure in the rich history of good, strong, dynamic, courageous...

October 2012

October 21, 2012

Meet the Women of October

Among the seven canonized today: Kateri Tekawitha: “sustained by her Christian faith and an ardent...

October 18, 2012

Did You Hear What Archbishop Lori Had to Say about the Election?

Pass it on.

October 17, 2012

‘is faith truly the transforming power in our lives?’

B16 today on the Year of Faith and our lives: The fiftieth anniversary of the...

October 14, 2012

I am Not Worthy

Rome -- “During this Year of Faith may we, like the man in today’s Gospel,...

October 07, 2012

Breakfast at Tiffany’s: The New Evangelization Remake

Yesterday afternoon, while helping me pick out an outfit for an upcoming out-of-the-ordinary event, a...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

A Prayer from Lebanon

From the pope's Angelus message yesterday in Lebanon: "May men understand that they are all...

September 16, 2012

We the People

B16 talked life, family, and natural law in Lebanon Saturday: The wealth of any country...

August 2012

August 19, 2012

Getting Real

Speaking to the heart of Catholic life, B16 today: Jesus presents himself as the living bread...

August 12, 2012

Got a Better Plan?

B16's Angelus message today comes right out of John: In today’s Gospel he says to...

August 09, 2012

Let Us Pray

That's the witness of the life of St. Dominic, whose feast Catholics celebrated yesterday. Reflecting...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

‘Our Firm Faith in God’s Word & Our Hope in His Promises’

Understandably, the "sadness" in the pope's heart in the wake of betrayal is in the...

April 2012

April 16, 2012

My B16 Birthday Album: Freedom as Challenge

As others note today, April 16th is Pope Benedict VXI’s 85th birthday. Vatican Radio reports...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Winning Souls with Hebrews

This is about the moment during some Lents where I have been known to panic....

March 28, 2012

What’s Weird in a Wildly Weird World

Emily Stimpson’s is a beautiful voice of the New Evangelization. Her recent book, The Catholic...

March 27, 2012

‘All Hands on Deck’ for the New Evangelization

An editorial in the new issue of The Anchor, the diocesan paper of Fall River, Mass.,...

March 25, 2012

Fulfilling a Friend’s Dream

You are sometimes reminded that monumental figures of world history are also men, and can...

February 2012

February 22, 2012

‘Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works’

40 days is a start.

February 18, 2012

‘In Christ Alone’

From Pope Benedict XVI -- otherwise known as B16 -- at the consistory this morning...