NAPA INSTITUTE: Five Victims of Cultural Bullying Due to Religious Expression Lead Off Day 2 of the Napa Institute

Thomas M. Loarie July 30, 2017

Special to the Catholic Business Journal—NAPA, CA – Alliance Defending Freedom’s (ADF) Kelly Fiedorek opened the second day of the Napa Institute with a panel discussion the “Future of Religious Freedom.” Her opening remarks provided context on both where we are and how religious freedom is a benefit to all. Four victims, constituting three cases,…

FROM THE PASTOR: Regroup if you must, then Charge the Enemy

CBJ Editors July 30, 2017

Jan Struther (1901-1953) wrote popular hymns but is best known for the book that became the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.

LIVE FROM NAPA INSTITUTE: NewsBits, Highlights from Napa Institute Going On NOW…

CBJ Editors July 29, 2017

Special to the Catholic Business Journal— Registration for this year’s Napa Institute topped 550 people. The Meritage Hotel, where the annual conference is held, will soon be doubling its size and able to accommodate many more in 2018.

Facebook Shuts Down More Than 20 Catholic Sites

CBJ Editors July 29, 2017

(CNA/EWTN News) In the last 24 hours more than twenty Catholic pages, some with millions of followers, have been blocked by Facebook for unknown reasons. Of the known affected pages, 21 are based in Brazil, and four are English-language pages, with administrators in the U.S. and Africa.

LIVE FROM NAPA INSTITUTE: Archbishop Chaput Opens 7th Annual Napa Institute: Christians Must Engage the World

CBJ Editors July 29, 2017

NAPA, CA—Special to the Catholic Business Journal. Archbishop Charles Chaput opened this year’s Napa Institute with a provocative talk on how Catholics can live in these rapidly changing times. He began by culling from a recent Pew study that highlighted many disturbing trends in today’s culture:

11-month-old Charlie Gard Has Died, but the moral and legal rights discussion surrounding his life continues

CBJ Editors July 28, 2017

London, England—Charlie Gard died today. Charlie is the 11-month-old baby boy born in England who was diagnosed with a rare mitochondrial disease, a horrific disease that paralyzes muscles and causes brain damage. His was one of only 16 reported cases of this disease in the world. Little Charlie made national and international headlines when

Skinny Version of Repeal Obamacare Blocked by 3 GOP Senators

CBJ Editors July 28, 2017

“3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!” tweeted President Trump. The so-called “skinny” version of repealing Obamacare would have defunded Planned Parenthood by diverting millions of

FROM THE PASTOR: Saint Charbal, the Maronites and Inspiring Christian Legacy in the Middle East

CBJ Editors July 24, 2017

There are saints whose lives were inconspicuous and whose canonizations surprised some who thought they were unexceptional. There are others whose mystical gifts were so prodigious that they made every effort, sometimes amusingly as in the instance of Philip Neri, to distract attention from themselves.

FROM THE PASTOR: The Survival of Christianity Depends on Men and Women Like These

CBJ Editors July 17, 2017

In the nineteenth century, the poet Adam Mickiewicz dramatized the theme of his suffering Poland as the “Christ of Nations” and, in an image used by many others, Poland was crucified in the twentieth century between the two thieves of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.

Floral artist asks U.S. Supreme Court to protect her freedom; Who’s Next?

CBJ Editors July 15, 2017

WASHINGTON –A floral artist from Washington state asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to reverse a decision by the state’s high court which concluded that the government can force her—and, by extension, other creative professionals—to create artistic expression and participate in events with

Full Text innaugural speech of President Donald J. Trump

CBJ Editors July 4, 2017

“Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.

We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.

FROM THE PASTOR: The Reality of Our Times

CBJ Editors July 2, 2017

The film Cabaret is better known these days than the novel The Berlin Stories on which its screenplay is based. Christopher Isherwood described the dissolute culture of a demoralized people, which gave rise to the National Socialists. Heroes in the German Church defied the Nazi outrages, and thousands became martyrs.

The Miracle at Our Lady of Peace in Ivory Coast

CBJ Editors June 30, 2017

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast—There’s nothing on earth quite like the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. It is one of the tallest churches anywhere, with a 518-foot-high basilica that tops the Vatican’s St. Peter’s. Guinness World Records calls it the largest church in the world.

TRAVEL WITH GRANDSONS, GOOD PRO-LFE PROGRESS AND ALERT FOR DADS

Tim Von Dohlen June 26, 2017

Pat and I have just returned from a week-long trip with two high school graduate grandsons – Trey and Patrick Von Dohlen. Both graduated with academic recognition. We went to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. It was very unusual to be in snow on June 15 and the Snake River was raging from the…

CHALK GIRL: Hong Kong 20 years after British handover to China

CBJ Editors June 19, 2017

The 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China by the British is coming up in July 2017. You must see The Guardian‘s “Chalk Girl,” the girl at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Here’s why: We hear much talk of China’s economic

God So Loved the World: The Humility of True Love

CBJ Editors June 19, 2017

Our Lord’s admonition that much will be required of those to whom much has been given, applies most vividly to us. We have been given so much in the way of inventions and medicine and comparative wealth, but above all in knowledge of the world around us. No king in his silken bed at

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Millennials: Do you have something to say to the bishops? Here’s your chance

CBJ Editors June 16, 2017

Vatican News (CNA/EWTN News) – The General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops announced the launch of a new website for the upcoming synod on youth, and encouraged young people to take the survey available there.

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Are we Really More Intelligent than Other Eras?

CBJ Editors June 15, 2017

Truthfully, it is impossible to effectively PROVE that we—in 2017, as a society/as humans—are more intelligent than those who lived centuries (or millennia) ago, or vice versa. However, if we consider a few thoughts, anecdotes and some data, we might arrive at a reasonable

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Trinity Sunday: Worship of the “Holy, Holy, Holy” God as the Center and Source of Reality Confounds Anarchy

CBJ Editors June 12, 2017

The Feast of the Holy Trinity follows Pentecost because it is only by the inspiration of the Third Person of the Trinity, who leads into all truth, that the mystery of the Trinity can be known. Human intelligence needs God’s help to apprehend the inner reality of God. Certainly, human reason can employ natural analysis to some extent to describe God in terms of causality and motion and goodness. Saint Anselm, who models the

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Beyond Human Imagination: The Glory of the Gift at Pentecost

CBJ Editors June 5, 2017

The fire that Moses saw was not by any definition what we know as fire, for it did not burn the blazing bush. The light that shone from Christ in his Transfiguration was not what is light in the canons of natural physics, because it was of an intensity beyond accessible description without damaging the sight of Peter, James and John. Fifty days after the Resurrection, in the Upper Room, there was a noise “like” a driving wind and then flames “as of” fire shone over the heads of the apostles, but the description required similitudes because the noise and the flames were not a natural noise and

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Facebook Shuts Down More Than 20 Catholic Sites

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Skinny Version of Repeal Obamacare Blocked by 3 GOP Senators

FROM THE PASTOR: Saint Charbal, the Maronites and Inspiring Christian Legacy in the Middle East

FROM THE PASTOR: The Survival of Christianity Depends on Men and Women Like These

Floral artist asks U.S. Supreme Court to protect her freedom; Who’s Next?

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