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November 2015

November 19, 2015

What to do about refugees?

Pray. Pray! Maybe you don't need a reminder, but I do. Almost none of us are...

November 17, 2015

Dr. Louise Cowan: A Heart that Sees

Although she smiled warmly and spoke gently (and, if I remember rightly, barely cleared five...

November 12, 2015

The hardest part of being a woman

When I was a zygote, I was female. I was as feminine then as I...

November 10, 2015

Should we smile, smile, smile?

What's the difference between feigned joy that cult members are required to display, and a suffering...

November 05, 2015

Thanks, Mom.

Does she cook and clean for us and do our laundry? Oh, yes, she does....

November 03, 2015

An Ethically-Produced Shingles Vaccine?

Many pro-lifers still decline to use any vaccine that was not ethically derived, choosing instead to...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

China’s One-Child Policy Relaxed Nationwide

Chinese couples will soon be permitted by the state to have two children. According to the New...

October 27, 2015

Rogue Laughter in a Flippant Society

Whether you call it a defect in our understanding of tragedy, or a defect in...

October 20, 2015

Who’s your monster?

What do we tell ourselves, when we see the zombies coming for us? That society...

October 15, 2015

An uninvited Pope and the power of words

A normal friend knocks at your door. An Argentinean friend opens the door and happily...

October 13, 2015

Worth Watching Again: The Edge

The great part of this deft, brisk movie is that you can totally ignore these...

October 08, 2015

“Something needs to be done,” Said the Princess

Are we done fretting about princess culture yet? Because I think I've found the final...

October 06, 2015

Shush. Your mother is trying to listen.

If you came in in the middle of the process, you'd think I was...

October 01, 2015

Can American writers write happy endings?

The British get Tom Jones and Dickens and Shakespeare's comedies, but what do we Americans...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Your family is not your brand

Even a family that is nuts doesn't fit into a nutshell. Families are too...

September 22, 2015

Blessed Are the Useless

This is the connection that we need to hear over and over again: we're not...

September 17, 2015

A church of oddballs

The woman is wrong if she thinks that a great church means a place where atheists and...

September 15, 2015

Who do we really mean that Jesus is?

Thousands of years after Jesus walked the earth, we need to understand that Jesus wants...

September 10, 2015

Why does the Church make things so complicated?

If a dumb sheep starts nibbling on the medicine spoon, rather than drinking the medicine,...

September 08, 2015

How about post-Cana counseling?

For many young couples, their main problem is that they simply don't have any...

September 03, 2015

Gender Reveal Parties and the Discernment of Amoral Issues

A reader writes: I cannot understand why some practicing Catholics that I know do not...

September 01, 2015

Should I let my kid dress like a weirdo?

There is a huge difference between sporting a blue mohawk because you think it looks...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Dear Teacher

Alas. We spent our summer swimming, watching X Files, sucking down gallons and gallons of ramen, eviscerating...

August 25, 2015

Does a UK Court Plan to Kill Baby Jake?

A UK court has ruled that it would be lawful to withhold some medical treatments from the severely...

August 20, 2015

St. Bernard, pray for . . . wha?

Speaking of distraction from prayer, that narthex is where parents of small children...

August 18, 2015

Food, Love, Law, Jesus: It’s All the Same Thing

What God is trying to tell me is, "Sweetheart, why are you making this so...

August 13, 2015

Hunger and Help: Are Community Fridges the Answer?

The community fridge not only feeds the hungry, but helps cut down on waste. In...

August 11, 2015

Abortion Is a Men’s Issue

In great men, two traits go together: strength and control. Power, and the knowledge of...

August 06, 2015

Netflix, Microsoft, and the Working Mom

Certainly Netflix and Microsoft are thinking of their bottom line, but they also seem to...

August 04, 2015

10 Important things to be hopeful about today

My favorite story about John Vianney is when some disgruntled parishioners circulated a petition to the...