God calls each of us to use our talents and whatever years of life He gives us to further the Kingdom. There is no one way to do this. In fact, there are as many ways as there are people. I believe that the most Christlike thing I have ever done was to raise my children. The sacrificial love of a mother truly is a Gospel love. When mother love fails, nothing can replace or compensate for it. Celine... Read more
I’m a little disappointed in Public Catholic readers. I posted a video yesterday of First Lady Michelle Obama talking about the girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram. The first lady also discussed the attacks on girls in a more general fashion. A number of Public Catholic readers responded with knee-jerk denunciations of the first lady that sounded very much like anything-she’s-against-I’m-for. The really ugly — and flat-out shameful — comments are now sleeping in the delete file. If... Read more
First Lady Michelle Obama made a public statement about the barbarous kidnapping of over 200 school girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria. Mrs Obama broadened her discussion to talk about the war on girls, in particular the war on the education of girls, which is occurring in many parts of the world today. Cowardly men throw acid in little girl’s faces, maiming and disfiguring them for life are unfit to be called men. A society in which bands of armed... Read more
Thank you to my Mama for being my wonderful mother. You have been my best friend all my days. Thank you to my two beautiful sons for making me a mother. You are the blessings of my life. Read more
In these times, we probably should pray this more often. Read more
President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria asked President Obama to help him fight Boko Haram last fall. I know he was serious about it because he does what anybody who is serious about making their case with our elected officials must do: He hired a high-dollar lobbyist to do his talking for him. It cost Nigeria $3 million to hire the Patton Boggs lobbying firm to explain that Boko Haram are terrorists to American politicians. If that doesn’t tell you where... Read more
Don’t let this story fill you with hate. That is exactly what the devil wants. Let it fill you with awe at the faith of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Consider the depth of faith and the power of the Holy Spirit to sustain them, even in this. Consider also the great trust God has given them and how fully they lived up to that trust. They are saints. The Daily Mail broke a story, complete with graphic photos,... Read more
Jason and David Benham have all the visual and familial requirements needed to be HGTV stars. This house-hunting, home-decorating network is populated from time zone to time zone with bona fide hunks. Consider this … Twins Or this … Cousins It was no surprise to any viewer when the network announced plans to introduce a new show, called Flip It Forward, featuring another set of hunky twins. The show looked like a sure money maker for HGTV. What did surprise... Read more
So it turns out that those pesky Satanists who want to decorate my state capitol lawn with what is one ugly bit of Satanic statuary also have their eyes set on higher ed. The Satanic Temple evidently plans to hold a black mass at the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club. That’s Harvard, as in the hugely expensive university where so many of the poobahs that run this country for their own benefit get their tickets to power punched. I... Read more
The Vatican went before the UN Convention on Torture to answer questions about the clergy child abuse scandal and Church teachings on abortion and homosexuality, not as a church, but as a government. In addition to raising the preposterous idea that Church teaching on abortion is torture of women, the Convention also raised the issue of the practice of transferring child abusing priests from one parish to another. I am guessing that the Convention’s position on the Vatican and... Read more
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