"Illegals" are not "immorals": What every Catholic needs to know about immigration law...
Jeff Mirus
Many Americans, especially conservative Americans, tend to be selective legalists. Despite their recognition of the falsity of some anti-life laws, they hold that the law confirms a sort of territorial moral exclusivity on citizens. This is one of many values which can arise from being culture bound. It typically creates a huge blind spot on immigration.

How to overcome your fear of rejection and show Catholic courage at work...
Randy Hain
How many times have we missed opportunities to stand up for Christ or share our faith? Is it the conversation we avoid with a troubled co-worker? Is it our refusal to publicly make the Sign of the Cross and say a blessing over our meals? Is it our reluctance to stand up to someone who is attacking the Church? Too often...

The world is way, way bigger than you (as seen in these awesome photos)

5 more productivity myths, debunked by science (and common sense)

Protestant writer Timothy George explains why Pope Francis is so popular with Evangelical Christians...

How to recognize (and avoid) the most popular moral heresy in the world...
Mark Shea
In the previous two pieces in this space, we have looked at two fallacies: the ad hominem and the genetic fallacy. Both fallacies are, like all fallacies, bad ways of trying to achieve good ends. For arriving at Truth is, of course, a very good end, but fallacies are poor ways to get there. To be sure...

A small but significant change to the Mass: “with Blessed Joseph, her spouse”
Jimmy Akin
The Catholic interwebs are abuzz with the news that there is a change being made to the Eucharistic prayers we hear at Mass. It’s a small but significant change: A specific mention of St. Joseph is being inserted into Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV. A reference to him was inserted into the traditional Roman canon by Pope John XXIII...

With a few notable exceptions, the teachers in our public schools are formally illiterate...

French floods claim first victim as Lourdes Grotto remains under water and closed to pilgrims...

12 pointers I have learned from Catholics with long-lasting marriages...
Msgr. Charles Pope
In times like these the witness of many years of marriage is all the more necessary and all the more inspiring. My parents made it to 45 years before my mother died. And I know they were not all easy years. I have written on that here before. But as the years ticked by Charles and Nancy Pope, my parents were quite inseparable. When my mother did die...

it’s hard to imagine anything farther removed from the New Evangelization than our current priest assignment policies...
George Weigel
Priests’ councils and clergy personnel boards were set up after Vatican II to give operational meaning to the council’s teaching that priests form a kind of presbyteral college around the local bishop and share with him in the governance of the diocese; such bodies were also intended to provide some protection for priests against the whims and crotchets of arbitrary or authoritarian bishops.{p...

10 things you need to know today: June 19, 2013...

Pope Francis at 100 days: 'the world's parish priest'
John Allen
Cognitive dissonance is how psychologists describe the anxiety generated when experience conflicts with one's model of the world. Either the facts have to be recast to fit the model, or the model has to give way in light of the facts, because people just can't live very long in a state of perpetual confusion. In effect...

Five ways to ruin the Mass...

Five things scientists have learned about your dreams...

Background on Ken Hackett, President Obama's nominee as ambassador to the Holy See...

10 things you didn't know about 'Monsters, Inc.'

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