The reader who was despondent about being out of work writes: Thank you for all your prayers, this afternoon I was offered a job by a local recruitment firm and I accepted !!!! Its a good salary overall and even better for someone who hasn’t drawn a paycheck in nearly 4 and a half years (3 of those spent in college) Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ (and well done, prayer warriors)! Read more

but I do know a corporal work of mercy when I see one! Valeria Cardaci writes: For readers finding themselves in the NYC area during fashion week, tickets are currently on sale for the Code Purple Event via Ticketleap and they are going fast! I’d love for your help in spreading the word about Code Purple’s fight to save lives from malaria in Africa, through a unique fabric, by sharing some info with Catholic and Enjoying it readers! There are... Read more

He writes about Gingrich’s chutzpah-filled performance in SC: Here’s the portion of the exchange I’d like to isolate: “Every person in here knows personal pain. Every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question for a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.” The Speaker is, of course, correct that “every person in here knows... Read more

Here he is, introducing us to Kathy DiFiore, a New Jersey woman who has been offering shelter and support to pregnant homeless teens for more than 30 years so they can have their babies instead of aborting them. She’s also promoting a website she created called LifeCall.org which lists shelters and crisis pregnancy centers in all 50 states so girls can find help wherever they are. Read more

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on the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick up over at OSV. Read more

This month’s Catholic Professionals of Seattle event features Dr. G. C. Dilsaver, formulator of Imago Dei Psychotherapy, who will speak about the Catholic Conceptualization and Cure of Mental Disorder. Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ, writes: “In this treatise on clinical psychology, we find a current presentation which is fully in accord with traditional scholastic philosophy and theology. The whole Catholic worldview of man made in the image of God, a composite being of spirit and matter, is the philosophical basis of... Read more

One of those humorless and unreflective New Atheist types continues to demonstrate that New Atheists suffer from a major personality disorder that leaves them irony-impaired. It seems that a bishop gave a homily at the shrine in Knock in which he reportedly said that godless culture was attacking the Church. Result: a brain-dead “humanist” decided this was “hate speech” and, you guessed it, attacked the Church by trying to get the bishop brought up on charges. The being post-Christian Ireland,... Read more

A reader writes from Maryland: Like so many throughout the US, our priest read a letter during the Holy Mass on Sunday from our bishop, in this case Cardinal Archbishop Weurl of DC. It dealt with the mandate from the Obama Administration and HHS Secretary Sebelius forcing religious institutions to cover contraception and sterilizations in their healthcare insurance policies. It was a very strongly worded letter and I applaud the Cardinal Archbishop for his strong, public stand. After the Mass... Read more

I’ve never understood this. The bishops are urgently protesting the Obama Administration’s attack on religious liberty. Even the National Catholic Reporter and a number of lefty journals like Commonweal are figuring out the gravity of the assault. So what does Judie Brown at ALL do? Attack the bishops for not being pure enough. One of the measures of health is the preference for converts over the urge to squint at heretics. Unfortunately, many conservative Catholics seem to prefer to attack... Read more