Randy and I are very happy to welcome Jeff Cavins as the newest contributing writer for The Integrated Catholic Life. His first article at ICL, Don’t Discount God in Advent, appeared earlier this week. Jeff comes to ICL as no stranger to you. He is a nationally known public speaker whose engaging style of teaching [...]
Today we have a long list of ways to connect and communicate through the latest and greatest technological gadgets. We have the new iphone4S. We can text, tweet, friend people on Facebook and yes, we can even do something that is almost getting to seem old fashioned…e-mail. Why is it with all of the communication [...]
Australian aborigines have a most imaginative myth that speaks to both the importance and to the elusiveness of laughter. They envisioned a Giant Frog who had swallowed all the waters of the world. Since life cannot continue without water, a dire predicament had been created. The only solution lay in making the Frog laugh, an [...]
Father, you consecrated the first beginnings of the faith in North America by the preaching and martyrdom of Saints John and Isaac and their companions. By the help of their prayers may the Christian faith continue to grow throughout the world. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns [...]
Like it or not, Washington D.C.’s debt is our debt. And we the people must see our nation’s financial house for what it is ─ a financial fiasco that needs great moral courage and decisive action. For too long we have kicked the “deficit can” down the road and avoided facing financial reality and making [...]
He is grimacing with effort as he croons forcefully into the microphone. He’s wearing faded blue jeans, a T-shirt and sandals revealing his hairy toes. He holds the notes a bit too long, and he is sadly off-key. And you might wonder: Why in the world is she attending this rock concert if everything is [...]
The events of September 11, 2001 reawakened most Americans — and with us, so many others in the world — to some of the fundamental realities of human existence that in day-to-day life can be marginalized or ignored: the reality of evil, of death, of heroism, and of God. The most fitting way to mark [...]
From the 1950’s through the late 1970’s Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) was a professor of moral philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland, specializing in sexual ethics and what we call today “marriage and family life.” He produced two important books touching on these matters, The Acting Person, a rigorously philosophical [...]
Let me be honest, generally I strongly dislike “churchy” sayings and bumper-sticker Christianity. It is true that clichés and sound bytes often carry a kernel of truth, but they are often packaged in trite sayings that regularly ignore the larger Truth. Recently I heard the oft-quoted saying that, “The Church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum of saints.” [...]
The most serious challenge for Christianity today isn’t one of the other great religions of the world, such as Islam or Buddhism. Nor is it simple atheism, which has no depth, no mass appeal, no staying power. Rather, it’s a religion most of us think is dead. That religion is paganism—and it is very much [...]
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Daily Catholic Quote from Fr. Benedict Groeschel
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St. Benedict for Beginners – The Third Step to Humility
This is the ninth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The Third Step to Humility ‘The third step of humility is that for the love of God a man should be obedient to his superior in all things.’ Obedience? What a sign of scandal in an individualistic age! The whole [...]
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