Late one Saturday evening last Spring, my husband and I had already settled in for the night. He was watching TV and I was aimlessly web-surfing, reading Facebook status updates, when one photo caught my attention. There, smiling on my screen, was a photo of a beautiful blonde woman cuddling with several African-American children. She [...]
GOT FAITH? And what’s it worth to you? On this day, people of faith remember 20th century martyr Miguel Pro, a Jesuit priest who died by firing squad on November 23, 1927. His joy and courage in the face of execution are an example to all of us. While we will most likely never be [...]
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Laminin is the building block of the human body, the glycoprotein which holds all together. And what does this glycoprotein look like? Yes, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Share
You’ve heard the whining: The Catholic Church oppresses women. The complaints likely center on two specific Church teachings: the all-male priesthood, and the sanctity of human life. Stretching credulity, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd equated the suffering of women under radical Islamic law with being a Catholic woman in America. (Fact check: Under Sharia [...]
Requiem in Sea Oh, to call the conch my home . . . Stormy-smoothed tunnels of Kaleidoscope walls spiraling into Pearl-shimmered dyes, Ever-changing with the light Of the sun, of the moon, Of the tide, and the gloaming, And surging, and sighing, Of the sea . . . Of that space That calls to me [...]