Archives for 2013

This week: The latest issue of New Evangelists Monthly featuring a record number of contributions is ready for your perusal. Outside da Box hits it out of the park with their new video. Moms, are you satisfied with your parenting? Do miracles actually happen? A new upcoming film from Blackstone Films: Unnatural Law. Must we repeat tragic history / does truth matter at all? Passing a proposal for healthy treats by some critics.

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Have you seen this new Catholic resource?

Issue #11, November 2013, of New Evangelists Monthly is ready for your enjoyment! Scores of faithful Catholic bloggers have contributed their very best pieces from October. This month brought these great topics: complacency, eye in heaven, pursuit, blessing, purgatory, Emmaus, missions, publishing, all souls, Catholic Gospel, Hail Mary, discernment, beer pizza, little teachings, book review, swinging beads, salvation, Mary’s peace, true gold, Halloween, Pier Giorgio, indifference, Mother of God, not shaming, being Catholic, the Word, St. Michael, the path, fertility, a hymn, animals, veneration, everyday life, listen up, white space, Amalekites, curiosities, forgetting?, indwells, children’s Rosary, forgiveness, last Gospels, last things, feminist, straight, obedient stars, Tridentine fallacy, non-defensive, Ba’al?, St. Jude, prayer life, healing, Lou Reed, BSA solution, priceless, miscarriages, confusion, reformed, roses, marriage, La Leche, sequins, negation, Dr. of prayer, Byzantine, addiction, standing w/saints, feminism, prejudices, reformation, Nowa Huta, survivor, faith, prison, a week, readings, sharing faith, anti-life law, returned, a poem, Church names, St. Martin, teaching children, freedom, women, settling, celibacy, Rosary, envy, sobriety, perseverance, humble, stork and 33 weeks.

This monthly “meta-magazine” showcases faithful Catholicism from theology to family life and “everything in between.” Enjoy it now at NewEvangelists.org.

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I have previously featured aspect a couple other Outside da Box videos. I would say this new one is their best, but I am quite partial to this story. On the road to Emmaus Jesus broke open the word, broke bread and sent his disciples – exactly the same at every Catholic Mass since then.

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Moms, how are you doing? Are you satisfied with your parenting? How would you rate yourself?

Some moms were asked to describe themselves as mothers. Their answers are not very encouraging. Then their kids were recorded answering the same questions. The moms came back, bracing for the worst.

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Did miracles ever happen? Do they still happen? (Yes, of course – all the time.) The Sophia Institute is releasing a book by Patricia Treece: Nothing Short of a Miracle.

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Blackstone Films has released a trailer on their upcoming Unnatural Law film. Fr. John Hollowell offers background on the project here. Fr. Hollowell donated $3,000 of his own money to this project.

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Now more than ever, Americans should stop their unbridled enthusiasm for their beloved political parties and think. What is our almost certain future, based on history? Does the truth matter at all to us?

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This cute commercial proposes healthy Halloween treats. Kids consider them and give their verdict.

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Some random thoughts or bits of information are worthy of sharing but don’t warrant their own full post. This idea was started by Jennifer Fulwiler at Conversion Diary to address this blogging need. So, some Fridays I too participate when I have accumulated 7 worthy items. Thank you Jen for hosting this project!

This week: A powerful pro-life video showing the impact one man can have. Another beautifully simple pro-life video. Not religious enough: the Little Sisters of the Poor. 6 high-school kids form a singing group. Leah Darrow speaks on brokenness. A quote of the week. Unusual items from Convert Journal’s “something different” desk.

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This is a video about working in the vineyard. There is great pain and brokenness but also beauty and grace in one very determined worker, John Barros.

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A beautifully simple, scriptural, pro-life video:

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The Little Sisters of the Poor, like you and me, are not considered religious enough by the Obama administration to warrant any exception from ObamaCare mandates to violate their faith. The Little Sisters must financially support intrinsic evil or be fined millions of dollars (which, of course, they do not have). This is who they are:

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These 6 high-school kids formed a schola to sing sacred music at Mass. Now available on CD.

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There are a surprisingly large number of wonderful videos on YouTube that, even after a couple years, have a low view count. Here is one from 2 years ago by Leah Darrow on Brokenness. Her comments are directed toward teens, but are good for all of us:

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A quote of the week:

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From the Convert Journal “something different” desk: The Grommet. Many of you may be aware of Kickstarter, where innovators propose products and ask for funding to bring to market.

The Grommet is a complimentary idea. They are a retailer who offers useful but undiscovered products that are available right now. They call them “grommets”. They could be just another outlet of questionable quality, gimmicky products that you might see on late night infomercials – but actually are just the opposite of that. That is what makes them like the more popular Kickstarter products. Here is an example:

The products are reasonably priced and well presented. Many would make unique gifts. (FWIW: I am just passing this along and have no stake in them.)

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Some random thoughts or bits of information are worthy of sharing but don’t warrant their own full post. This idea was started by Jennifer Fulwiler at Conversion Diary to address this blogging need. So, some Fridays I too participate when I have accumulated 7 worthy items. Thank you Jen for hosting this project!

This week: A new documentary about the War on Humans is in the works. Plan B is an abortion inducing drug – that is how it “works.” How do you respond when the Church is attacked? Fr. Barron looks at violence in Holy Scripture. A true hero and some of the many people he saved. Everyone, especially those who have made it to college, knows about the Holocaust – right? Children who are brainwashed by their parents – one speaks out.

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We are not animals I wrote recently. Days after I published that, I found (via CMR) this trailer for an upcoming documentary from the Discovery Institute:

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Plan B is not a contraceptive. It is an abortifacient. That is, it causes a conceived human being to be ejected from his or her mother’s body (a/k/a abortion).

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Wake up Catholics! The Holy Catholic Church is increasingly under attack. How do you respond? Wilson Orihuela is very blunt, but makes a powerful point:

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Fr. Barron has just published a pair of videos on the topic of violence in Holy Scripture. He tackles how to make sense of it and what it represents.

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Nicholas Winton is a Christian convert (from Judaism) and quiet hero who is credited with saving 669 children from the Nazis. Yet, no one knew – until his wife discovered his scrapbook in 1988. That led to his invitation to attend the BBC show That’s Life! later that year, just as an audience member as far as he knew:

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Rhonda Fink-Whitman is appalled how little Pennsylvania high school graduates know about the Holocaust. To prove the point, she interviews kids on PA college campuses:

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Has Ethan Metzger been brainwashed by his parents? Does he do what he does and think how he thinks because of their manipulative influence? This victim of parental brainwashing speaks out:

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Some random thoughts or bits of information are worthy of sharing but don’t warrant their own full post. This idea was started by Jennifer Fulwiler at Conversion Diary to address this blogging need. So, some Fridays I too participate when I have accumulated 7 worthy items. Thank you Jen for hosting this project!