When I asked my political science and history buff, numerical mechanics expert, Special Ops retired military officer husband to recommend his favorite author so I could read it, I was asking as a wifely efforts to show love, to get to know him better. He answered, “Tom Clancy,” and handed me Debt of Honor and Executive [...]
In their new book, The Catholics Next Door: Adventures in Imperfect Living, Greg and Jennifer Willits claim that there is no bilocating or levitating going on their suburban home. I have to wonder though, as they seem to be doing superhuman work in the “New Evangelization” of the Catholic faith. They founded The Rosary Army [...]
Most Americans are familiar with the Holocaust and the horrible atrocities we associate with that genocide, but few can give details about the brief, but massive, genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994 when over 800,000 people were murdered in just 100 days. During the genocide, the lower-class Hutus brutally hunted down their hated enemies, [...]
Emily Stimpson’s new book, The Catholic Girl’s Survival Guide for the Single Years: The Nuts and Bolts of Staying Sane and Happy While Waiting for Mr. Right might seem like an odd choice for my reading list. Believe me, no one was more surprised than I was when I put my novel down for a [...]
Style, Sex and Substance. The title of the book caught my eye. Hey, I like all three of those things, I thought, and then, I am a Catholic woman. Should a Catholic woman even think that? Um. Yes. Yes, I think she should. And if you don’t believe me, look at the subtitle: 10 Catholic [...]
When I was in high school, I read for the first time, Shirley Jackson’s great short story, called The Lottery. And most people in high school in America read it, so you might remember the plot. It’s about a festive gathering in a small American town… Watch and listen to Fr. Barron’s commentary on The [...]
I have learned, over time, to be a bit careful when I’m soliciting review copies of books. My inner editor in me has very little patience for shoddiness, short-cuts in writing and editing, and error, especially of the grammar variety. I was absolutely delighted, then, when the first two books in a series crossed my [...]
We may often wonder if authors actually live up to the standards they outline for us in their books. In the case of Kevin Lowry and Faith at Work: Finding Purpose Beyond the Paycheck (Our Sunday Visitor, 2011), there is no doubt that he lives up to the important themes of this wonderful book. Kevin [...]
There’s nothing like the story of an underdog overcoming the odds to surprise everyone and come out on top. In the documentary Undefeated, the story of the Manassas Tigers, an inner city Memphis, Tennessee high school football team is a glimpse into a world of defeat. The boys have more family members who have gone [...]
Parenting is so easy, anyone can do it. It’s just a matter of instinct. And then, the children arrive. Holes the size of craters then perforate your belief system long before Junior even says his first word. Marge Fenelon knows both sides of the family coin — the before know-it-all syndrome and the wow-wasn’t-expecting-that. In [...]
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Daily Catholic Quote from St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
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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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