"The Coffinmaker": A powerful Memento Mori and winner of Vimeo's Staff Pick award...

Help! My kids still aren't Catholic...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
An earlier post this week with a similar title evoked the most passionate comments I’ve had on a post for a long time. I suggested that one of the reasons why Catholic kids leave the church is that our catechism and worship styles and preaching for the past fifty years did not prepare them for the rigors and demands of a fully Catholic life. I would like to add to that.

From the heart of the storm, God has no platitudes, but He offers His participation in the sufferings of the world...

Pope makes fourth appeal for Oklahoma tornado victims...

The argument today isn’t about assimilation. The argument today is about who “gets” America...
George Weigel
With his new book, American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America, mild-mannered Russell Shaw has become the bull in the china shop of U.S. Catholic history, knocking heroes off pedestals and overturning conventional story-lines—all in aid of trying to understand why the Church in America is in a preca...

"The Lord redeems all of us. Even the atheists..."
John Thavis
One of the hallmarks of Pope Francis’ still-young pontificate is its emphasis on non-exclusivity. He seems convinced that the church, in what it says and does to promote the Gospel, must broaden its appeal and expand its dialogue with others. At this morning’s morning Mass in the Vatican guest house, the pope elaborated on that theme...

I was in legislative session at the Oklahoma state capitol when the sirens went off...
Rebecca Hamilton
We were in legislative session when the sirens went off. For the first time that day, the room fell silent. It was the kind of bottom-dropping out, free-fall silence that occurs when people face their omnipresent dread. Tornadoes are an omnipresent dread in Oklahoma. Their unpredictability...

The suicide of Dominique Venner...
Edward Peters
Suicide—whatever mental/emotional problems induce some to commit it and which might even mitigate its culpability—is objectively a gravely evil action (CCC 2280-2283) and may never be licitly chosen. When committed in a sacred place such as a church or shrine...

The new “hookup feminists” have become the shallow, insincere, career-fixated, people-users that early feminists decried...
Elizabeth Scalia
The sexual revolution promise that women could “have it all” has always been oddly paradoxical: It encouraged women to find their best selves by aping men and conforming to traditionally male valuations of worth and relevance. Mistaking the word “equal” for the word “same,” these “hookup feminists” have become precisely the shallow, insincere...

The air travel rights you aren't aware of (and how to get them)

14 simple ways to get considerably more done...

Six questions to help you conquer crazy-think and make good decisions...
Jennifer Fulwiler
I don’t do suffering well. Some generous people said that they thought I handled the pulmonary embolism thing gracefully, but they would have retracted all of that and slowly backed away in fear if they could have heard my inner dialogue, and sitting in a quiet hospital room and listening to my iPod didn’t exactly make me St. Josephine Bakhita. Also...

What do Catholics have to believe about Adam and Eve?

Vatican spokesman denies media reports, says Pope Francis did not conduct public exorcism on Pentecost...

Did God send the tornado? The problem of natural evils...

"Help! My children aren't Catholic anymore"...

15 wonderful hilltop towns and villages around the world...