Catholic Church

November 30, 2017

The Heroic Minute… and How it Can Change Your Life

By Cheryl Hernández, Seton Home Study School - St. Josemaría Escrivá… calls this moment the “Heroic Minute”. He explains that when the alarm goes off, it is “Time to get up, on the dot! Without hesitation, a supernatural thought and …up! The heroic minute; here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does not weaken your body.”

November 30, 2017

Catholic Campaign for Human Development is Part of the ‘Swamp’ That Needs to Be Drained

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - The annual (CCHD) collection prompts an annual controversy, in which critics of the CCHD point to the grants that the program has made to organizations that promote anti-Catholic causes. The bishops who supervise the CCHD either ignore or deny these charges. But the evidence keeps mounting… The funds donated to the Thanksgiving collection are typically steered toward community organizers—often disciples of Saul Alinsky

November 30, 2017

Blue States Target Little Sisters of the Poor

By Brian Fraga, National Catholic Register - Two federal courts will soon hear preliminary arguments in lawsuits filed by states that are challenging the Trump administration’s religious and moral exemptions from the federal government’s contraceptive mandate... Led by the attorneys general of California and Pennsylvania, the legal challenges argue that the administration is illegally limiting women’s access to birth control.....

November 30, 2017

Can Subsidiarity Restore American Self-Government?

By Bruce Frohnen, The Imaginative Conservative - A centerpiece of Catholic Social Thought (CST), subsidiarity embodies the recognition of the link between human dignity and self-government. As Pope Pius XI observed, it is gravely wrong to deny to persons active, participatory roles in directing their own lives, either individually or in the local associations they naturally form