Articles in 'MEDIA & CULTURE'

Meet Asia Bibi: A Catholic Mom Sentenced to Death as a "Blasphemer"

By Larry Peterson

We are so blessed to be living in the Unites States of America. The freedoms we have enjoyed are beyond compare. Yet there are those Americans who will fight to have these very freedoms we enjoy stripped away to satisfy their own ideologies. How sad this is and what fools they are. Especially those who try to strip away religious freedom from those who disagree with them.

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Faith In Our Family, Bedtime Prayers

By Peggy O'Flaherty

When I was little my parents would kneel before our bed each night and we would say our nighttime prayer. "Angel of God my guardian dear to whom God's love commits me here. Ever this night be at my side to light, to guard, to rule to guide. God bless......."

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RE: The Synod: The Catholic Church is the "Bride" of Christ and the Holy Spirit has Her Back; NO Problem

By Larry Peterson

It is quite apparent to me that the 2014 Vatican Synod on the Family has been hijacked by the mainstream media and press. (Maybe we should call it the Secular Media Synod). Reports of Synod actions are flying out from the keyboards about all sorts of things, and none of these keyboards are privy to what any of the final Synod results will say.

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The Synod on the Family, the Francis Effect and the Timelessness of the Catholic Church

By David Vermont

All Christian eyes turn to Rome as approximately 200 Bishops meet for the Synod on the Family. The secular world hopes that Pope Francis, who seeks a kinder, gentler, more loving, more merciful Church, will change Catholic teaching and come around to their “more enlightened” way of thinking.

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Christ is Greater than Columbus

By Father Adaly Rosado, Jr.

We recently celebrated Columbus Day. While people argue about whether or not this day should be celebrated as a holiday, it is safe to say that most people enjoyed the day off from work. For most it was a day to be with their families. For most children it meant “no school on Monday!”

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A Different Love Story: Remembering "The Prison Angel", Mother Antonia Brenner

By Larry Peterson

This is a love story. No, it is not about romantic love. Rather, it is about the love of Christ exploding in the soul of a woman who took her God given gift and did her best to shower it upon some of the meanest and worst criminals in Mexico.

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A Modern Good Samaritan

By Carol Ann Chybowski

The outbreaks of Enterovirus D68 and Ebola have all of us worried. They are deadly, and we don’t seem to have a handle on how to cure them or stop their spread. It brings back so many memories of the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

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That's It, I'm Done!

By John C Prejean Sr.

Are you one of those who is about to get off social media sites completely? I too, for a while, felt like I was going to close my Facebook account and just stick with Twitter or nothing at all. Now, I’ve found a new way to use social media sites towards my advantage, which has made it a much more pleasant experience

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What about a bad priest?

By Elizabeth Conner

What do you do if you have a bad priest? Hopefully, this is not a question that we have to ask often. Just like there are bad doctors, bad lawyers, bad customer service reps, the religious sector also has their fair share of bad leaders.

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Shock Value: when young Catholics take on indie film

By Mary Ashley Burton

So many people say they are sick and tired of what is coming out of Hollywood. Well, there are good, faithful Catholics who are stepping into the eye of that storm to try to make a difference. I met with Julian Curi,Writer,and Rocco Ambrosio, Director, who discuss how their faith informs their lives as young Hollywood filmmakers; how that faith has inspired their latest project Shock Value.

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Respect all Life

By Anne Marty

One day on my way to the cemetery to pray for the poor souls, my youngest son asked me to stop in front of the local nursing home. He said "Let's pray for the imprisoned." Pope Francis recently stated the importance of taking care of the growing number of elderly people across the globe.

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The Synod has Opened: Hello Media!! It is all about FAMILY.

By Larry Peterson

The secular media (print & broadcast) has been salivating over the Synod of Bishops that has officially opened in Rome. They have been pounding the drum about the birth of a NEW church filled with the progressiveness of the "modern, secular world". They have ignored the reason this Synod has actually been called together. HELLO media, the Synod is about Family.

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Child Euthanasia—Another Secular Abomination Degrading God's Natural Law?

By Larry Peterson

I think that the plague of secularism that has engulfed the entire world possibly reached its optimal success last February. The highly civilized country of Belgium passed a law allowing children to choose to euthanize themselves.

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October 7, The Feast Day of Our Lady of Victory/Our Lady of the Rosary

By Catholic365

Islamic armies ranged along the coasts of Africa, the Middle and Near East, toppling established powers, yearning “to bring all Europe within the dar al-Islam, the ‘House of Submission’ — submissive to the sharia law. Europe, as the land of the infidels, was the dar al-Harb, the ‘House of War’.

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Caring for the elderly: A lesson from my grandparents

By Luis Daniel Gonzalez

Sunday, September 28, 2014, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Square, followed by a special meeting with the elderly. Attendees included thousands of grandparents, elderly and religious life who participated in this encounter, and among them was also a special guest, Pope-Emeritus Benedict XVI.

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Hating the Truth of the Real Presence of Christ, Satanists Perform a 'black mass'

By Larry Peterson

Praise the Lord (TRULY). The 'black mass' abomination in Oklahoma City (with its huge congregation of 42 people) is finally over. The Satanic lovers of the "darkness" have had their day. I hope they are fulfilled with whatever redeeming spiritual blackness their boss can deliver into their misguided, hate filled, anti-God hearts.

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Should We Ban Books?

By Carol Ann Chybowski

This week, September 21-27, is Banned Books week. This annual event is more commemoration than celebration. There’s an edge of defiance to it as well—no one is going to tell me what I can read! Legitimate questions are aired and debated again. What should be banned? Is it explicit “adult” content? Graphic violence? Profanity? Anti-Catholic/Christian sentiment?

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