Congratulations, Nick and Kanae! On Thursday, Nick Vujicic posted this picture onto his Facebook page with the following caption: “Thank you all so very much for all your love and prayers!! Kiyoshi James Vujicic – 8 Pounds 10 oz, 21 3/4 inches long. Mama Kanae doing excellent as well.” Nick Vujicic, you will recall, was born without any arms or … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Our Bodies Tell the Story
Still not sure if you want to pick up Christopher West’s new book Fill These Hearts? Here is another sneak peak for you: From CHAPTER 7: OUR BODIES TELL THE STORY Several years ago a friend gave me a picture book called Magic Eye: Beyond 3D2 that promised to enable the viewer to “see what is invisible.” It was my … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Fill These Hearts Now Available!
Good news! Christopher West’s new book, Fill These Hearts: God, Sex, and the Universal Longing, is now available. Even better news! Brandon Vogt is giving away three copies of the book on his website. Click here to enter. Winners will be selected on Friday. Here is the publisher’s description of FTH: Fill These Hearts is a book about desire. Not … Read More
TOB Tues: Space Probes and Springsteen
Cool. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter of Christopher West’s forthcoming book Fill These Hearts: God, Sex and the Universal Longing CHAPTER 1: THE UNIVERSAL LONGING Everybody’s got a hungry heart. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN In 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to explore the galaxy. A golden record called The Sounds of Earth was affixed to each … Read More
Remember Rome!
As I predicted, turnout for Tuesday’s religious freedom rally here in MO was huge. What is surprising, however, is the fact that the media has actually been reporting turnout numbers fairly. I’m terrible at crowd guessing. Most of the people I talked to there estimated that there was somewhere between 2,000-3,000 people there. Given how the media completely ignores the … Read More
Science Fiction is Not-So Fictional Anymore
Did you ever see the movie The 6th Day, with Arnold Schwarzenegger? It’s an action movie, in which he comes home one day to find a clone of himself living with his family, is then chased by a bunch of cloned assassins and finally traces the attacks to the creator of the clones, who is himself a clone. Well the … Read More
You Are Loved!
“I am definitively loved and whatever happens to me—I am awaited by this Love. And so my life is good” -St. Josephine Bakhita Smile! God loves you (and I do, too)! Happy Valentine’s Day! I love meditating on his passage from Henri J.M. Nouwen’s book The Return of the Prodigal Son: “This is the great mystery of our faith. We … Read More
Great Pro-Life, Catholic Fiction
Mary Meets Dolly blogger Rebecca Taylor kindly wrote up a review of Brian J. Gail’s pro-life trilogy for me to publish over at Catholic Lane: Fiction is as instructive as non-fiction, maybe even more so. The best fiction catches us up in a world outside our own all the while teaching us truths about ourselves and humanity. The pleasure of … Read More
Poem: I Saw a Baby
Catholic Lane has a wonderful poetry section. Today they published this thoughtful poem from Pavel Chichikov: I saw a baby at the stream, Perhaps or maybe not a dream, Who played with water, thrust his hand Into the pool, the golden sand And then scooped up a golden fish, This is my life, he said, to bless Or throw again … Read More
“We’ve Accepted Her”
This has been all over the pro-life interwebs this week, so you’ve probably seen it already. But if by chance you have not yet read about the little girl with Down syndrome who has become the ‘darling’ of the child modeling world in the UK, you’ll want to read this now. It’s easily the most wonderful story you will read … Read More