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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles:A Salute to West Point - William McGurnEven in the age of emails, blogs and tweets, the formal letter can still command attention. Read more... A Sicilian lesson in the complex bond between bishops and saints - John L. Allen Jr.Saints and bishops, as any student of church history knows, often have a curious love/hate relationship. Read more... A Story of a Mother's Forgiveness - Doug McManamanMy mother was born in 1928, in Nice, France, one year before the arrival of the Great Depression. My great Grandfather arrived in New York from Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s. As a boy he found a job delivering phone books for ten cents a day. I was told that he was a determined man. He worked hard and made his way all the way up to becoming vice-president of AT&T, New York. Read more... A Tale of Two Skulls - Father Robert BarronRecently I spent five wonderful days in the diocese of Leeds in the Yorkshire district of England. Read more... A Time to Move On - Anthony EsolenAnthony Esolen on Sending Our Children into Eternity (A Graduation Address). Read more... A Tragedy of Errors, and an Accounting - Peggy NoonanAfter a crash, the Marines set an example. Read more... A Tribute to John Senior - Patrick MartinTen years ago yesterday, an extraordinary man died after having touched many minds and hearts. Read more... A Way of Beholding the World - Anthony EsolenThose of us who profess the Catholic Faith still have a way of beholding the world that marks us apart from our neighbors. Read more... A winter’s day walk in the Quantocks - Paul JohnsonI shall remember Saturday 20 January 2006. What it was like elsewhere I do not know, but in west Somerset it was the perfect winter’s day. Read more... Above all, holiness - Father Raymond J. de SouzaWhy should Catholics measure their own success on the criteria of their enemies? Read more... Advent - David WarrenThe point of Advent (which begins the new Christian liturgical year, and itself begins today) is threefold, as I understand it. Read more... Advent 1944 - Brad MinerThe "assassin" was dropped behind "enemy" lines. Read more... After the Great John Paul - Rev. Raymond de Souza"After the great Pope John Paul..." What this period meant for the Church was the cause of trepidation in some quarters after the Holy Father's death. After Cologne, there is a measure of relief, and a measure of heightened expectation — Benedict has made John Paul's stage his own. Read more... Agent of change - Edward E. PlowmanBefore Rosa Parks was a civil-rights catalyst, she was a devoted Christian who memorized Scripture and taught Sunday school. Read more... Albania: The First Atheist State - Robert RoyalAlbania is a small country that prides itself on its fierce national identity and long Christian history. But after the communist takeover 1946 tens of thousands of common people perished for religious reasons. Read more... Allow afflicted babies a death with dignity - Debbie JoslinIn 1999 my son was given a prenatal diagnosis of "fetal anomalies incompatible with life". I was offered "choices". Read more... Alzheimer's kills memories, not emotions - Colleen Carroll CampbellI thought about Dad last week, when I read about a new University of Iowa study that found patients with Alzheimer's-type memory loss can remember the emotional imprint of an experience even after they have forgotten the event itself. Read more... America is baring her soul - Father Raymond J. DeSouzaWhat does a visitor from a foreign but friendly country sense about the United States just days before the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks? G.K. Chesterton, one such visitor who came a long time ago, wrote that this was a "country with the soul of a church." America is baring her soul this week. Read more... American Idol: 9th Child of 12, Daughter of Pro-Life Blogger Advances - LifeSiteNewsMaddy Curtis of Bluemont, Virginia, the 16-year-old daughter of an award-winning pro-life blogger, impressed American Idol judges on the show this week, who unanimously advanced her to the next round. Read more... America’s Roman college at 150 - George WeigelThe Pontifical North American College, in its sesquicentennial year, is one of the finest houses of priestly formation in the world. Read more... Amish faith shines, even in tragic darkness - Rod DreherIs there any place on earth that more bespeaks peace, restfulness and sanctuary from the demons of modern life than a one-room Amish schoolhouse? Read more... An Apparition of Reconciliation and Hope - Carl A. Anderson & Msgr. Eduardo Chávez SánchezNearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost. Between December 9 and December 12, 1531, that miracle happened, and it forever changed the future of the continent. Read more... An Education in Love - Brad MinerEarlier this year, the American Secretary of State visited Latin America. At the basilica in Mexico City she was shown the image of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the tilma (cloak) of a Chichimeca tribesman in 1531. Read more... An extraordinary life - Father Raymond J. de SouzaForty years ago today governor-general Georges Vanier died peacefully at Rideau Hall. Read more... And What's More . . . - Christopher KaczorRalph McInerny died one year ago. The breadth and brilliance of his legacy still astound. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:54:03
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