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Balanced Parenting: Eyes on Heaven
by Erin Franco It has been on my heart for a while now to write about parenting. Each time I sat down to do so, however, I chickened out. Who was I to think I could have any wisdom or insights into...
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“I am the Immaculate Conception”
by Jennie Murphy Originally posted February 14, reposted on August 14 for the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe. These are the words that echoed forth from Our Lady at the apparitions in Lourdes, France....
View ArticleThe Change Obama Did Deliver
There are lots of people who say that President Obama has not delivered the infamous hope and change he so eloquently promised in 2008. With the realization that he is a human being and not the...
View ArticleProtection of the Family is the First Cause of Rebellion
G.K. Chesterton, in his work Everlasting Man, observes that, “[t]he truth is that only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the state.” He goes...
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What Pope Francis Might Do for the Jesuit Order
by Jackie Vaughn Pope Francis met with media. Pic by Catholic Church (England and Wales)The news of a Jesuit being elected Pope sent shock waves through my system, as I’m sure it did to many others....
View ArticleCharisms: We All Got ‘Em, So Let’s Use ‘Em
By Jackie Vaughn God gave me a wake-up call the other day in quite a dramatic fashion. I came home to find that one of my dogs had chewed up four of my most treasured journals. These weren’t just...
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Understanding Silence With God
In every relationship, there is a point where the only word that will do is to stay silent. Whether it be the gaze of bride and groom at the moment before they exchange vows, or the parting look before...
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Floodwaters That Forced Surrender
by Jackie Vaughn My 2 ½ month old daughter and I sat snuggled together on the couch watching the torrential rain pour down outside. I watched as the creek near my childhood house transformed into a...
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The ACLU and the Great Switcheroo
Call it the Great Switcheroo. Although there have been any number of periods in our national history that have left us Americans enthused, depressed, horrified, or upset, there has surely never been...
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Does NFP Ever Really “Fail?”
Dr. Jean Rioux is a professor and chair of the philosophy department. He and his wife, Maria, raise their nine children in a renovated farmhouse a few miles outside Atchison. A graduate of Thomas...
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