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Culture of Life

Attitude Platitude

BY Dave Durand

Family Matters

November 1-7, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

I have been in leadership positions for years. A recurring theme I hear from consultants and coaches is: “Attitude is everything.” Forgive my skepticism, but I’m not convinced that success is that simple. What is your take?


I share your skepticism. Attitude is relevant, but by no means is... READ MORE


Women at Work: Pros and Cons

Fact of Life

November 1-7, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

A new Rockefeller Foundation survey finds that around three-quarters of Americans believe that the increasing presence of women in the workforce has been very or somewhat positive for American society and the economy. But there’s a bit of a backlash, too. Some 65% of respondents feel the decrease... READ MORE


The Families That Adore Together

BY EDDIE O’NEILL

Pro-Family Profile

October 25-31, 2009 Issue

The late Father Patrick Peyton, founder of the Family Rosary Crusade, coined a phrase that has since become ubiquitous: “The family that prays together stays together.”

Those words, first spoken in the 1940s, are coming alive in a new way in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. That’s thanks to... READ MORE


Special Needs, Sanctifying Deeds

BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN

Catechizing the Developmentally Disabled

October 25-31, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Mark and Kim Stagliano couldn’t have been happier. Posing with their three young daughters right after 14-year-old Mia and 13-year-old Gianna, the two oldest, made their first holy Communion together last year, they thanked God for the amazement of his grace.

“Having that picture in our house... READ MORE


All Work and All Gray

Fact of Life

October 25-31, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

A surprisingly large majority of working Americans plan to work as long as they can during retirement age, according to a new poll commissioned by the financial firm Bankrate. No fewer than 75% of respondents said they’ll work as long as they can. Nearly 40% plan to work for the love of working,... READ MORE


Marriage Material?

BY Tom and Caroline McDonald

Family Matters

October 25-31, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

I have been dating a wonderful woman for a few months now. How do I know if we are ready to take that next step toward marriage, or if it is truly the right thing at all?


Here are a few questions for you and your significant other to ask yourselves before popping the question. While not at all a... READ MORE


Halloweens and Beatitudes

BY Tom and April Hoopes

User’s Guide to Sunday

October 25-31, 2009 Issue

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, is All Saints’ Day, a solemnity.


Halloween and All Souls

Last year, we attended our Connecticut parish’s “Holyween” party, where the kids dressed as saints and Dominican Father Bernard Confer guessed with astonishing accuracy who each was. This year we’re in... READ MORE


The Family That Evangelizes Together

BY Monta Monaco Hernon

Pro-Life Profile

October 18-24, 2009 Issue

The Second Vatican Council called missionary work the “greatest and holiest task of the Church” and described the Church’s commission to “rally the forces of all the faithful” to “spread everywhere the reign of Christ” (Ad Gentes, The Mission Activity of the Church, 1965).

Most... READ MORE


Mom and Dad: Theological Masters

BY EDDIE O’NEILL

Parents Go to School for God and Family

October 18-24, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

This autumn is seeing a notable harvest of Catholic parents heading to school — not to check in on their children, but to take up studies of their own.

But even more surprising than the sheer number of grown-up students is the popularity of a particular degree that’s much in demand these days:... READ MORE


God Provides

Fact of Life

October 18-24, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

A new study of the two decades around the Great Depression turns up a counterintuitive finding: A bad economy may be good for people’s health. Life expectancy increased by six years between 1929 and 1932 (from 57 to 63), and the increase held for both men and women. And the number of deaths from... READ MORE


Attention Tension

BY Dr. Ray Guarendi

Family Matters

October 18-24, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

My sons, ages 4 and 5, are getting more difficult and demanding as they get older. I think I give them a lot of my time and attention, but they seek more. Am I missing something?

The crux of my last Register column was that kids act up for countless reasons, attention seeking being only one. Kids... READ MORE


Bartimaeus, Jeremiah and You

BY Tom and April Hoopes

User’s Guide to Sunday

October 18-24, 2009 Issue

Sunday, Oct. 25, is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, Cycle I).


Papal

At 9:30 a.m. Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI will close the Synod of Bishops for Africa. The last synod for Africa was in 1994 — and it’s unusual to have another so soon. But consider Africa’s... READ MORE


Family Power in Canadian Numbers

BY STEVE WEATHERBE

October 11-17, 2009 Issue

Alberta’s annual tent revival for Catholic families started with a carpenter and an idea.

Bob LeBlanc was always known within the Open Door prayer group as an idea man. The charismatic group had been meeting for several years in St. Albert, Alberta, a historic French... READ MORE


Selling Scared

BY Phil Lenahan

Family Matters

October 11-17, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

I know cooler heads prevail when the stock market takes a turn for the worse, but I’m finding it hard to resist the urge to cut my losses and pull out of all my investments. Talk some sense into me, please!


We’ve been going through an economic cycle that challenges the fortitude of even... READ MORE


Mission Sunday ‘Infection’

BY Tom and April Hoopes

User’s Guide to Sunday

October 11-17, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, is the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time and World Mission Sunday.


World Mission Sunday

In his remarks for Mission Sunday 2009, Pope Benedict XVI said a few startling things.

First, he made it clear that no generation is off the hook regarding the need to evangelize. Certainly... READ MORE


Christopher Columbus’ Marian Mission

BY Joseph Pronechen

Pray the Patriotic Rosary All October

October 11-17, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

We all know Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, but have we ever heard about the connection the explorer had with the Blessed Mother?

As we celebrate her memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary on Oct. 7 and Columbus Day on Oct. 12, the connection has monumental implications for our... READ MORE


True Love Waits — and Rewards

Facts of Life

October 4-10, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Engaged and dating couples who don’t share an address until after exchanging wedding vows are doing their future marriage a major favor. A study published in the July edition of the Journal of Family Psychology showed that couples who wait have happier marriages, less conflict and lower divorce... READ MORE


Strength in Meekness

BY Dave Durand

Family Matters

October 4-10, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

I am struggling over what it means to be a Catholic striving for meekness and humility while also being a business leader. It seems that meekness does not get results — and pride definitely fuels assertiveness and, thus, success. How do I reconcile these competing character traits?


The answer... READ MORE


Saints New and Old — and Us

BY Tom and April Hoopes

User's Guide to Sunday

October 4-10, 2009 Issue

Oct. 11 is the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, Cycle I).


Canonizations

At 10 a.m. on Oct. 11, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize four new saints in St. Peter’s Square.

Damien of Molokai

Joseph Damien de Veuster (1840-1889) of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary was famous... READ MORE


Mothers’ Prayers Profit Priests

BY Joseph Pronechen

October 4-10, 2009 Issue

Becoming a spiritual mother for priests was a natural progression for Sheila Michie.

As a child she learned to love and admire priests during visits with her uncle, a priest at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. When her husband, Charles, worked at the Diocese of Tulsa, Okla., the love and... READ MORE


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