Best today from Catholic blogs
Terry Mattingly
-One of the terms that journalists hear during many continuing education sessions at the Poynter Institute down in Florida is “stakeholder.” Basically, a stakeholder is someone whose life will be directly affected by the accuracy and fairness of a story. This stakeholder may be a source in a story. Then again...
As an Evangelical for twenty years, I believed the usual lies about Catholics...
Barbara Curtis-
If you are Catholic, you may or may not know that most — not all, but most — evangelicals do not believe you are Christians. I’ve known home-school groups whose Statements of Faith exclude Catholics because we do not subscribe to the “Five Solas” — the pillars of Protestantism.
Video: If you want to understand the Ten Commandments, you must know clearly the meaning of the first tablet...
Fr. Robert Barron
-I don't think we reflect enough on the Ten Commandments, which were so vital to the Old Testament, and provided a foundation for Western Society. The first table of the Law deals with our relationship to God, because our relationship to each other depends on our relationship to God. Everything in the spiritual and moral life flows from clarity on that score.
Let's stop asking kids what they want to be when they grow up...
Jennifer Fulwiler-
Yesterday I was hanging out in my daughter’s class at our parish Mother’s Day Out program, and one of her classmates came up to me while I was sitting on the floor. The three-year-old boy approached with a smile and asked if I could help him get a stray wheel back on his truck. As I fumbled around with the repair, I felt like I should make conversation. Wood already touched by fire is not hard to light...
Msgr.Charles Pope
-There’s just something about being a Catholic. The faith sets down deep roots that, for many never go away, even if they leave for many years. I remember an older priest once remarking about the many Catholics leaving for evangelical Churches: “Ah…don’t worry, they’ll be back.” I was annoyed when I heard him say this...
set a world record
Rome Sweet Home...
Tim Drake
-My previous, and only trip to Rome, was nearly 17 years ago. I was a Catholic newbie, having come into the Church that March. My wife, Mary, and I were expecting a child, 10 months after miscarrying our first. Our three-week European excursion began in Rome. I can still recall being awed by the artwork, St. Peter’s...
Four basic life lessons from basic training...
Quick! Sell your McDonald's stock. I've given up Sausage McBiscuits for Lent...
Bishop Robert Lynch
-In my younger days, I used to play with “going without something for Lent” like I played with New Year’s Resolutions, that is to say that they both made it only for a few days before they were broken. However, as I became older I could see deeper meaning in observing Lent by some small penitential act which perhaps only served to me as a reminder of what Jesus spent f... My recent ordeal with emergency surgery taught me a few things...
Scott Hahn
-It was exhausting and exhilarating. Between the end of one semester and the beginning of the next, I spent ten days working to establish a more visible and permanent presence for the St. Paul Center in southern California—teaching, speaking, taping, consulting with bishops, meeting with scholars and Hollywood stars.
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