Category: Media
Interview with Theresa Thomas, co-author of “BIG HEARTED: Inspiring Stories from Everyday Families”
Every now and then a special book comes along that grabs you and leaves a mark. BIG HEARTED: Inspiring Stories from Everyday Families is such a book. Deacon Mike and I are blessed to know and work with co-authors Theresa Thomas and Patti Maguire Armstrong who are also popular contributing writers for Integrated Catholic Life. [...]
Changing My Perspective on Adoration
Years ago, our parish started a Eucharistic Adoration program, and, like the good signer-upper that I have always been, I promptly agreed to a crazy early morning hour. I had no idea what I would do for an entire hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar, but I was sold on [...]
Book Review: “Dear God, I Don’t Get It”
They say that the measure of a good children’s book—or a young reader’s chapter book, as the case may be—is that both children and adults find the story compelling, that it stirs within them a desire to be something more than what they already are. Patti Maguire Armstrong’s new book, Dear God, I Don’t Get [...]
The Church: Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
“If we help you to read a church, we do it with the hope that you’ll be better able to pray a church. If you want to understand a church, you need to read it as a prayer book and not as an architecture textbook.” –Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina, authors of The Church: [...]
Along the Way… for Ordinary People
Lent is over . . . Easter is upon us . . . can Advent and Christmas be far away? These special liturgical seasons of the Church call us to increased holiness and awareness of God and ourselves. They are times for self-reflection, meditation and reconciliation followed by joyful celebration. But what about the other [...]
Why the Media is Afraid of Dr. Gosnell
There has been an outcry against the media silence of perhaps one of the most horrific, under-reported story in modern times: Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic now known as “The House of Horrors.” The only national TV source has been Fox News while the three major networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS continue to [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Considers the Fate of Marriage
The challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last week was about a complaint by a woman who was not able to get a federal marriage estate tax exemption when her partner died and had to pay taxes on more than a $363,000 inheritance. They had married in [...]
Fighting for Marriage, One Conversation at a Time
You can fight to save the whales, dolphins, and baby sea turtles, but if you fight to save traditional marriage, you will be called a “bigot” and be compared with hate groups. Thus, we should expect the names to fly on Tuesday, March 26th during the “March for Marriage” in Washington, D.C. The event is [...]
Saints and Authors: A Chat with Author Colleen Carroll Campbell
Recently, I had the opportunity to read a book that really shook me. It’s not often that I find myself loving a memoir, but the latest by Colleen Carroll Campbell, My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir (Image Books, 2012), is just such a book. In no way does Campbell give in to the temptation [...]
Introducing Teens to Good Friends
Sometimes it seems as though teenagers are not from this planet. No offense. I was once a teen myself. And at one point, five of our ten children were teens all at once. Fun times. As any parent knows, teens’ friends influence them. That is why it’s good to acquaint them with friends who really [...]
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