Five years ago today, on March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the 265th Successor to St. Peter and launched the Church onto a sometimes very rocky road into the 21st century.
Yearly Archives: 2018
Generation Z: Why So Few Believe
The generation of Americans born between 1999 and 2015 – who are the first generation born into the “post-Christian” world – say the presence of so much evil in the world, the hypocrisy of Christians, and the belief that science refutes much of the Bible are major reasons why there are so few believers in this demographic.
Lenten Journey Day 28
March 13
Rely on Faith in the Face of Doubt, Day 2
“Mary, being dead to herself, never longed for God to speak to her until He deemed it necessary for the accomplishment of His designs in her regard.”
What’s the Five-Finger Prayer?
AM asks: “Have you ever heard of the Five-Finger Prayer? Is this New Age?”
The View’s Apology to VP Not Good Enough
Even though embattled View co-host, Joy Behar, privately apologized to Vice President Mike Pence for offensive comments made during a recent show about his Christian faith, because these comments were directed against all Christians, the public is demanding an on-air apology.
There’s a Difference Between Homeopathy and Natural Remedies
TG writes: “I recently stumbled upon a few of your blog posts about homeopathy. I was recently introduced to homeopathy by a large group of very devout and influential Catholic women, so I was rather startled to see your blog post. I come from a family where almost everyone is in the medical profession, so I never really questioned conventional medicine. Once I was introduced to these women, I began to feel like I was ignorant or blind by subscribing to conventional medicine and I began to question whether or conventional medicine (like antibiotics or medicine during childbirth) was equivalent of sinning through negligence…
Another Fertility Clinic Storage Tank Malfunctions
For the second time in a week, a fertility clinic’s frozen embryo storage tank malfunctioned. This follows a disaster in a Cleveland clinic which destroyed thousands of lives, left almost 700 mothers-to-be in mourning, and is forcing Americans to take a hard look at just how far we have strayed from the truth about the sacredness of human life.
Lenten Journey Day 27
March 12
Rely on Faith in the Face of Doubt, Day 1
“In his perplexity, the person should not ask for a sign from Heaven, but, with filial trust in God, should await the divine comfort with which God will allay his fears and dispel his anxiety at the time best suited to further his spiritual progress.”
Celebrate Women’s History Month With St. Gianna Beretta Molla
It was a tremendous blessing for me to have had the opportunity to meet Dr. Gianna Emmanuela Molla, the daughter of St Gianna Beretta Molla at the 2015 World Meeting of Families. She was there representing the St. Gianna Physician’s Guild, whose mission is to unite and encourage Catholic physicians, and those in the health care profession, to promote and defend Catholic principles in a public way by word and example, and to inspire sanctification in their lives. Her inner beauty and humility radiates through her as she carries on the legacy of her mother, who was herself a Catholic physician. Read the rest…
Lenten Journey Day 26
March 10
Bring Christ to Others
“To the superficial observer, the visit of Mary to her cousin may seem a very ordinary event in her life. But how momentous it was to God the Father, who, through the presence of His most favored daughter, wished to sanctify the precursor of His divine Son!”
