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‘Dad, It Looks Like Bread’
BY STEPHEN VINCENT First Communicants Change, but the Blessed Sacrament Is the Same — Yesterday, Today And Forever
May 18-24, 2008 Issue 
I have a confession to make. Although I righteously roll my
eyes at moms and dads who yell boorishly from the bleachers for their kids to
get a hit, I have become a religious equivalent of the Little League parent.
Call me the “first Communion father.”
I’m anxious for my 7-year-old son to... READ MORE
Good Morning, Vietnamese Hero
BY J.B. AN DANG Prolife Profile
May 18-24, 2008 Issue
Neighbors thought Tong Phuoc Phuc (last name rhymes with
“foo”) had gone mad when he built a cemetery for aborted babies and later
turned his house into a shelter providing alternative services for pregnant
women contemplating abortion. However, Vietnamese Catholics, who struggle to
promote... READ MORE
Don’t Worry. Be Godly.
BY Phil Lenahan Family Matters- Financial Life
May 18-24, 2008 Issue
I want to trust in God completely in every aspect of my
life, but I can’t seem to stop my mind from worrying over how I’ll make ends
meet.
A few weeks ago, Veritas Financial Ministries began hosting
an online discussion on faith and finance. (It’s still up at
forums.catholic.com.) To my... READ MORE
Sunday Football Verse
BY Tom & April Hoopes User’s Guide to Sunday
May 11-17, 2008 Issue
Sunday, May 18, is Holy Trinity Sunday (Year A, Cycle II).
On May 17 and 18 Pope Benedict makes a pastoral visit to Savona and Genoa,
Italy.
Parish
EPriest.com offers best practices from parishes.
Shiner Catholic Church/Sts. Cyril and Methodius parish in
the diocese of Victoria, Texas, offers... READ MORE
Go Ahead. Make Mom’s Meal.
Facts of Life
May 11-17, 2008 Issue
It’s traditional in many American families to take Mom out
to eat for Mother’s Day, but this year, many a mama — more than in recent years
past — will enjoy a home-cooked meal courtesy of Dad and the kids. That’s
according to an online survey conducted by Hamilton Beach, the appliance... READ MORE
Ready. Aim. Rosary!
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Pro-Family Profile
May 11-17, 2008 Issue
In Charlotte, N.C., Craig Lewis and his family joined the
army shortly after his daughter went looking for a seventh-grade service
project for their parish. In Atlanta, Ga., Maria Johnson and her children also
enlisted. Living the motto Make Them, Pray Them, Give Them Away, they all
became loyal... READ MORE
Mother Mary Comes to Us
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Favorite Titles of Mary for Mother’s Day and Beyond
May 11-17, 2008 Issue
It’s not for nothing that Mother’s Day is a May event, for
May is the very Month of Mary. There are Mary statues to be crowned, Mary
gardens to tend, and Marian prayers to send up seeking the Blessed Mother’s
intercession under a multitude of titles.
With that last thought in mind, the... READ MORE
Kids First, Always
BY Tom & Caroline McDonald Family Matters
May 11-17, 2008 Issue
My husband and I are recently divorced. I have custody of
our three young children, but their father lives nearby and sees them
frequently. He and I are not on good terms right now, and I am worried about
the effect this tension will have on our children. What can I do?
We are terribly sorry about... READ MORE
A New Pentecost for America
BY TOM & APRIL HOOPES User's Guide to Sunday
May 4-10, 2008 Issue
May 11 is Pentecost Sunday.
Parish
EPriest.com offers Best Practices from parishes.
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in the Diocese of Jefferson
City, Mo., offers a way to help parents see the gifts of the Holy Spirit in
children.
“The feedback I got had to do with the ‘power’ of the... READ MORE
Faith-Based Happiness Across the Pond
Fact s of Life
May 4-10, 2008 Issue
Is Europe — post-Christian, post-everything Europe — getting
religion? Don’t count it out. Miracles do happen. In any case, some in the Old
World are at least noticing that people of faith are better off emotionally
than agnostics and atheists. The chattering class is discussing data... READ MORE
Guardian of Germany’s Unborn
BY Robert Rauhut
May 4-10, 2008 Issue
She’s only 26 years old, but Maria Grundberger has already
helped rescue more than 230 children from abortion. The Catholic midwife and
mother of a 1-year-old is one of the most successful pro-life activists and
sidewalk counselors in Pope Benedict’s homeland.
Grundberger is also the main... READ MORE
Baby-Late But Family-Ready
BY JUDY ROBERTS
May 4-10, 2008 Issue
At 43 and 39, Karen and Coady Torio of Petersburg, Mich.,
are not your typical first-time parents. In 2006, after nine years of marriage
and struggles to conceive, they acquired an instant family in just three months
by becoming adoptive parents of a toddler, guardians of a teen and the
expectant... READ MORE
Sports vs. Saints?
BY Dave Durand Family Matters – Working Life
May 4-10, 2008 Issue
At work, I’m a managing director. At home, I’m a husband and a father of five
children. My wife and I are both active in our parish. Our kids’ sports
schedules fill our “down time” to the point where we have no such thing. How do
we slow things down?
You have described the biggest... READ MORE
A May Holy Spirit Novena With Mary
BY Tom & April Hoopes User's Guide to Sunday
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
May 4 is the Seventh Sunday of Easter. May 1 is Ascension
Thursday, a holy day of obligation. In Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington, May 4 is Ascension Sunday.
Parish
EPriest.com offers best practices from parishes.
From Holy Spirit Catholic Church in... READ MORE
Please Pass the Pupsghetti
Facts of Life
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
Could your family fill a small glossary with zany, made-up
words and phrases that no other family — make that no other human being — could
possibly decipher? If so, your words stand alone but your family doesn’t. In
March Paul Dickson, author of Family Words: A Dictionary of the Secret... READ MORE
The Pope Brought Down the House
BY TUCKER CORDANI Music Played Second Fiddle at the Youth Rally
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
Rally was the right word for what took place in Yonkers,
N.Y., April 19. The occasion, of course, was Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to pray
with and inspire young people, seminarians and disabled children at an outdoor
event.
An exuberant crowd of about 25,000 danced to Christian pop
music until... READ MORE
Talk: It’s Cheap
BY Dr. Ray Guarendi Family Matters: Childrearing
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
I’m a mother of three children. It seems like I’m nothing
but a talking machine. All the kids just
shut me off. Any ideas for making myself
heard?
Talk — the illusion of discipline. Nagging, lecturing,
over-reasoning, pleading, cajoling, arguing, threatening, screaming — forms of
talk,... READ MORE
Marriage Help and the Pope’s Friendship
BY Tom & April Hoopes User's Guide to Sunday
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
Sunday, April 27, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Today at 9
a.m., Pope Benedict XVI will ordain deacons for the Diocese of Rome in St.
Peter’s Basilica.
Parish
EPriest.com offers “Best Practices” ideas from various
parishes.
Father Tom Aschenbrener at St. Alphonsus parish in... READ MORE
The Million-Voice Prayer for Life
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Prolife Profile
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
Pope John Paul II knew the power of the Rosary. In his 2002
encyclical Rosarium Virginis Mariae (On the Most Holy Rosary), he called the
Rosary “an effective spiritual weapon against the evils afflicting society.”
Imagine how effective 1 million Rosaries all prayed at the
same hour for one... READ MORE
Ready for Recession
Family Matters - Financial Life
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
I just read that more borrowers are at least 30 days past
due than at any time in the last 16 years. And Ben Bernanke, the chairman of
the Federal Reserve, has now told Congress that a recession is possible. What
should we do?
Over the last few decades, I remember reading that we had
tamed the... READ MORE
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