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On the Fast Track: Approaching Lent with Living Faith

By Fr Dwight Longenecker | February 19, 2014

Catechesis teaches us what to believe and how to behave, but Catholics also need down to earth advice for putting their faith into action. Lent is one of the times to make a new resolve, roll up our sleeves and make some spiritual progress.Fr. Longenecker writes here on the need for fasting. He also provides practical advice on prayer and the Catholic life in many other places.

Before We Leap: Ken Blackwell on the Danger of Abolishing Marriage

By Ken Blackwell | February 19, 2014

One of the most poignant and powerful stories from the Civil War era tells us that freedmen and women walked to Tennessee in 1866-66 to have their slave marriages recorded and recognized in law. Many of these ex-slaves were illiterate-kept so by unjust enactments. Many of them had to walk barefoot. But so great was their yearning for marriage that they made that great sacrifice.

Imagining a Culture of Forgiveness

By Deal W. Hudson | February 19, 2014

Forgiveness in the rough and tumble of life is a complicated matter, and though we may utter the correct platitudes about forgiving our neighbor, oftentimes, depending on the offense, we harbor a residue of anger toward, and distrust of, those we have supposedly forgiven. Of all that I read about forgiveness, it was a sermon by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that made the most realistic case for the possibilities of forgiveness. What Nietzsche had idealized - forgetfulness - Dr. King looked directly in the face: "Certainly one can never forget, if that means erasing it totally from his mind. But when we forgive, we forget in the sense that the evil deed is no longer a mental block impeding a new relationship."

The New Film on Noah, Silly Surveys and Christian Involvement in the Arts

By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 19, 2014

The February 17, 2014 edition of Variety had a short article, written by Alex Stedman, entitled Survey: Faith-Driven Consumers Dissatisfied with 'Noah,' Hollywood Religious Pics which shot like a bolt of lightning around media sources. Not only was the question, as asked, a loaded one - the results are skewed because of the way in which it was asked. The results have little or no bearing on what they were used to demonstrate in the news reports which picked up on it. Most reports indicated that the survey showed that the faith community would not go to see this movie. That is Nonsense.

Deal Hudson: A Hill Worth Dying On

By Deal W. Hudson | February 18, 2014

Like that of Socrates, St. Thomas More's dilemma is easily translated to the challenges facing Catholics who enter politics in the 21st century. For 50 years, Catholic politicians have been required to make a choice between life and death; first the abortion issue, then the abortifacient contraception issue, and soon it will be euthanasia. Voting records tell the tale of who chose life and, in doing so, chose to risk losing elections rather than putting principle aside (usually to some deep, dark hole in their private conscience). Those Catholics in politics who ask whether "this is a hill worth dying on" are usually reluctant to die on any hill, much less recognize the moral high ground in the first place. When "electability" trumps all other considerations, defeat on election day doesn't leave the candidate lying on a hill representing the principles she fought for. No, she is simply forgotten, because there is nothing left to remember. Those who compromise and lose leave no legacy, no inspiration, their loss has no afterlife of gain.

Obianuju Ekeocha: Africa and the Totalitarian Approach of the Almighty Social Engineers

By Obianuju Ekeocha | February 18, 2014

Africans should be alarmed at this point in our post-colonial history. We are seeing long standing universal morals and values being redefined by the wealthiest and most powerful nations in the world who are somehow able to push for the right to kill unborn babies on the same page as the right to homosexual marriage.To them a free woman is one who can decide to kill her own child before birth and a free adult is one who can form a family unit with a person of the same sex.

The Twenty-First Century War Against Judgment: The Loser is Not Only the Individual, but Society

By Deacon F. K. Bartels | February 18, 2014

My daughter, whose duties include saving the lives of children, recently posted on Facebook the content of a conversation she had with another, unnamed nurse who works at Planned Parenthood. While my daughter is engaged in saving young people's lives, the other nurse is engaged in ending them. The comments that ensued displayed a serious lack of understanding with regard to proper, charitable judgment ordered toward fraternal correction, the good of another, as well as the good of society collectively.

Gossip 'fills the heart with bitterness and also poisons us,' Pope Francis says

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | February 18, 2014

Pope Francis' Sunday Angelus message emphasized the importance of avoiding all forms of slander in living a Christian life.

Planned Parenthood is An Evil Organization That Takes the Lives of Children

By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 18, 2014

There is no moral distinction between what Planned Parenthood does and the intentional killing of a child outside of the womb. In addition, the time thresholds of "viability" under the insane and indefensible structure forced upon us by the Supreme Court's Roe and Doe decisions keep getting pushed back as our technology reveals the truth about our smallest neighbors. Science has confirmed what our consciences have known all along, every procured abortion kills a child. Our positive or civil law has rejected the Natural Law Right to Life and its prohibition against these intentional homicides committed against our youngest neighbors through procured abortions. Until the positive law is changed to reflect the truth, our tax dollars must no longer be used to engage in this evil.

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