CMR Special Edition – A Special Request – To all of our readers and friends in the Catholic/Pro-life blogosphere: As you know, we here at CMR do not take much seriously but life issues are a notable exception.
Fire Extinguishers, First Aid, and Contraception? – My favorite line of the day comes from a college newspaper in Montana that’s highlighting Planned Parenthood’s efforts to give away free Morning After Pills. You can
Make Your House a Home – Danielle Bean: Coffee Talk: Homemaking | (Join each day’s Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun:
Media Mindfulness – Lisa Hendey: Learn about media and our families on this week’s podcast | This week on the podcast (click here to listen or click on the player above) we welcome Sister
Romance Him! – Celeste Behe: 23 Small Ways to Warm Up Your Marriage | There’s a delightful scene from the movie “Enchanted” in which fairytale princess Giselle advises an unsentimental
The Wittiest Romance – Arwen Mosher: Are you a Jane Austen fan? | I was in high school when I first saw the film You’ve Got Mail, and I remember being bewildered by the main character’s
More Lenten Reading: The Stational Churches of Rome – An additional consideration for Lenten exercises that I wished to mention to our readership is a booklet compiled by Fr. Frank Phillips, the pastor of St. John Cantius
New Translations: It’s still English – I’m beginning to wonder exactly what kind of a revolt the USCCB, individual bishops, pastors, liturgy directors and other lay leaders are anticipating when the new
Our Lady of the Annunciation in Clear Creek Now an Abbey – The following very good news came into the NLM today: “The monks of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Monastery have the honor and joy of announcing to you
Christians In the Holy Land – Here is an interview with Patriarch Twal of Jerusalem. It is an interesting read to understand the Christians in the Holy Land and what can be done to help. We do the
Do Catholics Worship Mary? – Since today we celebrate Mass in Abu Ghosh, at the Church of Mary, Ark of the New Covenant, I thought it would be a good time to respond to an e-mail I received a while
In Idylic Amish Country – Montgomery Indiana is a world away from Bombay with 20 million people in a country of 1.2 billion — 3 million of whom are Catholics! That is as many people that live in
My Friends on Oprah: Sisters of Mary on their Recent Show – This is worth watching. These sisters are nine minutes from my house and we know many of them and visit their convent frequently. They do a delightful job of explaining
Common Sense 101 – Jesus teaches us, “I tell you truly, anyone who will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, will never enter it.” There is a challenge with Chesterton. The
Hating on St. Valentine’s Day – Statue of St Valentine, Whitefriar Street Church, Dublin As we know, the feastday of this saint has long-been distorted, first by customs and lovers , then by haters who
“Consubstantial” – Who do people REALLY say that He is? – The new translation contains an alarming new threat. “Consubstantial” By clinging to the inaccurate rendering of “consubstantialem Patri” in the Creed as “one in being
Archbp. Coleridge hits a liturgical home run – Ever since the papal Master of Ceremonies Msgr. Guido Marini gave a talk in Rome to English-speaking priests about liturgy and liturgical reform, liberals have been
Not every valid Council was a fruitful Council. – “Not every valid council in the history of the Church has been a fruitful one; in the last analysis, may of them have been a waste of time. Despite all the good to be
Revolting liberals: against the new translation – Liberals are fomenting revolt. They are revolting against Pope Benedict XVI, and the bludgeon they are using right now is the new translation. More and more we are
WDTPRS: Quinquagesima – In our traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter. Today is one of the pre-Lenten Sundays which
Where the bread is salty – Dante perfectly, precisely captured the inner disorientation of the exile when he wrote of a place that “the bread is salty and the steps are hard to climb”. Tasting
Catholic author and speaker encourages students to train to win heaven – Magnolia, Del., Feb 13, 2010 / 02:32 pm ( CNA ).- Getting to heaven is a bit like getting ready for the big game, according to Todd Lemieux. “If you’re playing a sport,
