Many Catholics Choose Homeschooling, Should You? - Theresa Thomas, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Keeping the Faith On the Job - CatholicExchange

Why Catholic Identity Does Actually Matter… - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Is a Free Market a Good Thing? - Thomas Storck, The Distributist Review

Lenten Musical Themes - Robert R. Reilly, InsideCatholic

On the Gifts of Aging, A Meditation on the Inverse Proportionality of Physical Aging and Spiritual Vigor - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

For All The Saints: Isidore of Seville - Allison Salerno, Why I Am Catholic

Father Smith’s Mutual Enrichment Recipe - Charles Culbreth, The Chant Café

Parents of Children.  Love...READ MORE

The Shroud of Turin: 3 Film Collector’s Edition - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

For Saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s Bible Reading Program to Make Sense of the World - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

The Most Holy Trinity as a Spring of Water, a Poem of Saint John of the Cross - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Why Thirty-Three Is the Perfect Age… - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

A Lenten Funeral for a Passing Prayer - Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

In Paris the Dispute Was about God, But about Man First - Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Christopher Hitchens has Mellowed, but His Idea of Christianity is Distorted - Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Do I Really Believe? - Theresa...READ MORE

GENERATIONS OF PRIESTS

By Father Thomas McGovern

with a forward by Cardinal George Pell

Four Courts Press, 2010

456 pages, hardcover $60, sewn softcover $30

To order: FourCourtsPress.ie

This book is targeted toward priests and seminarians, aiming to invigorate them in their vocation to serve Christ and his Church. For all Catholics, however, it should inspire a vivid appreciation of that calling ever ancient, ever new.

Written by an Irish priest of the prelature of Opus Dei, Generations of Priests profiles 10 priests from antiquity through the present, from St. John Chrysostom to Pope John Paul II. Most are canonized and well known. All of them, however, “reflected Christ in his own...READ MORE

My Journey Home To The Catholic Church, Why I Am Converting - Bryan Kemper

To Break My Fast from Being Merciful - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

“Do Catholics Make Better Athletes?” - Pat McNamara

Three Biblical Reasons, Fasting, and Self-Denial - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

How to Really Solve Poverty in Africa - Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

More Data on the Lost Generations and the Urgent Task for the Church - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Catholic Relief Services Doesn’t Distribute Bibles, Is that Good News? - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Bad Taste, Poor Catechesis, and Vatican II - Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

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Roland Joffé, director of The Mission and There Be Dragons, calls himself an agnostic, but he seems to be a remarkably God-haunted one.

At a recent press event in Spain, the British writer-director reflected on what drew him to There Be Dragons — a film set during the Spanish Civil War that has predictably elicited media controversy for its positive treatment of St. Josemaria Escrivá, played by Charlie Cox, and Opus Dei, the personal prelature he founded. There Be Dragons recently opened in Spain; the film comes to the United States in May.

“I have no idea whether there’s a God or not, and it seemed to be a fascinating thing to think about,” Joffé explained to a roomful of sometimes skeptical...READ MORE

Rediscovering Courage and Conviction, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin Interview - Jim Graves, Catholic World Report

Turning Back the Tide: One Pastor’s Attempt to Assert the Biblical Teaching on Homosexuality In an Age of Confusion - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Can Children Commit Mortal Sins? A Reflection on First Confessions - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

For Your Lenten Friday Night at the Movies IV - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

Patron Saint of Footballers Who Worked for the Poor: Saint Luigi Scrosoppi - Spiritual Life, Catholic Herald

How Teaching James Joyce Ruins Appreciation of Liturgy - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

Carl Sandburg, Frank Lloyd...READ MORE

The Sky is Falling! Really? - Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, Rhode Island Catholic/Without a Doubt

A Thorp in Wenski’s Side: Defending the Archbishop of Miami - Eric Giunta, RenewAmerica

National Atheist Day - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Gender Silliness and the Intersexed - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

Varia: Coon’s Sanctions, Ferraro’s Funeral, and Father Corapi’s Case - Doctor Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law

Fake Julia? Social & Cultural Traditionalism and Not-Quite-Boomer Generation - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Faculty Profile: David Hughes - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

The Future of (Catholic) Law Schools & Catholic Legal Theory - Father Robert...READ MORE

DEARBORN, Mich. — First, the Catholic-run Thomas More Law Center won acquittals for four evangelical Protestant missionaries jailed for disturbing the peace at an Arab festival in Dearborn, Mich., last year.

Now, the center has sued the city of Dearborn, its mayor, chief of police and 17 police officers, along with the American Arab Chamber of Commerce on the missionaries’ behalf.

“We’re all Catholics at the center,” said Thomas More’s chief trial counsel, Robert Muise. “But most of our clients are Protestants, because they tend to be more aggressive in asserting their First Amendment rights.”

That’s for sure. At times, as many as 40 evangelical missionaries have descended on Dearborn,...READ MORE