Tag: Blessed John Paul II
Learning to Love our Blessed Mother
For years I have had a strong desire to write about my ever-growing appreciation and love for the Blessed Mother. Growing up as a Baptist, leaving that church as a teenager and living in a spiritual wasteland until I experienced a significant personal conversion in 2005, I never thought about Mary. Since joining the Catholic [...]
Some Thoughts on Marriage
It is impossible to ignore the ongoing and hotly contested debate in our country about the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman. The partisans on both sides of the issue have well-articulated arguments defending their positions and the issue is now before the Supreme Court to determine the future of [...]
The Pro-Life Movement and the Culture of Death: Are we fighting fire with fire?
In the fight against the culture of death, are our words enough? Is a political movement of people enough? Is protest enough? These are questions that need to be asked, especially in the wake of this year’s March for Life in Washington, DC. This article will hopefully articulate my response to these questions based upon [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II to America
“America the beautiful! So you sing in one of your national songs. Yes, America, you are beautiful indeed, and blessed in so many ways… But your greatest beauty and your richest blessing is found in the human person: in each man, woman and child, in every immigrant, in every native-born son and daughter. “For this reason, America, [...]
Our Children: Just Another Statistic?
Maybe it was Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration of the “Year of Faith” that got us thinking. Or perhaps it was a knee-jerk reaction to the frequent attacks upon our faith from an increasingly post-Christian society that put the idea into our heads. Whatever it was, my husband, Dan, and I recently came to the conclusion [...]
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