Catholic Exchange

Pentecost: the Difference the Spirit Makes

• Faith Featured-Small
• Friday, May 25th, 2012
• Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.

As a teen, I thought the clergy were supposed to do everything.   We laity were just called to pray, pay, and obey.  Oh yes, and keep the commandments, of course.  The original 10 seemed overwhelming enough.  Then I discovered the… Read More

Critter Prayers and Transhumanism

• Featured-Medium Prayer
• Friday, May 25th, 2012
• George Weigel

Posed as ever on the cutting edge of the politically correct and theologically dubious, the Episcopal Church–U.S.A. will soon consider adopting a Burial Service for Beloved Animals, in which the following two Collects appear:
At the burial of a farm… Read More

A Sunny Side to the Obama Mandate?

• Featured-Large Life Issues
• Friday, May 25th, 2012
• Dr. Paul Kengor

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Here’s another superb audio commentary by Dr. Paul Kengor on the Obama mandate:
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There may be a sunny side to the Obama mandate on contraception and abortion drugs. Consider:
When President Obama’s decree… Read More

What’s Wrong With Our Catholic Schools

• Education Featured-Small
• Friday, May 25th, 2012
• Paul Santos

I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD.  (Psalms 40:9)
Let the children come to me; for the kingdom of God belongs to such… Read More

Pentecost Sunday

• Faith Featured-Small
• Thursday, May 24th, 2012
• Gayle Somers

Pentecost Sunday, May 27, 2012
Gospel (Read Jn 20:19-23)
Today’s Gospel tells us that Jesus surprised the disciples “on the evening of that first day of the week” by appearing in their midst without using a door (locked “for fear… Read More

The Constitution Doesn’t Settle the Marriage Debate

• Featured-Large Marriage & Family
• Thursday, May 24th, 2012
• Robert P. George

Constitutional scholar and lawyer Robert P. George recently presented an oral argument in one of the cases considering the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which allows each state to determine for itself the definition of… Read More

Medicine in the Nanny State

• Featured-Medium Health & Spirituality
• Thursday, May 24th, 2012
• Ken Connor

Most people are familiar with the old adage that says “the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”  Originally the refrain of a poem honoring motherhood, today this phrase is perhaps more applicable to the… Read More

Hear the Word

• Featured-Small Media & Culture
• Thursday, May 24th, 2012
• Rev. George W. Rutler

It can be disconcerting to watch the ranks of people walking along the city streets with wires in their ears, oblivious to the lives being lived around them, and tuning in only to what they choose to hear.  It is… Read More

Fox’s New Views On Embryonic Stem Cells

• Featured-Small Life Issues
• Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
• Michael Cook

Five or six years ago the ethical dilemmas in human embryonic stem cell research were the hottest story in bioethics. One of the many celebrities promoting funding for it was Michael J. Fox, an actor whose career has been severely… Read More

Meet the Genre Master

• Featured-Medium Movies & Music
• Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
• Harley J. Sims

Having grossed over a billion dollars since its release, the comic-book movie The Avengers (Avengers Assemble in the UK) is on track to becoming one of the most successful films in history. The US$220-million picture tells the story of six… Read More