Right-sizing Your Team
August 28, 2017
‘Right-sizing’ has to be one of the more detested words in modern business language, mostly because the use of it often indicates a lack of courage.
August 28, 2017
Not Even for a Nun
August 24, 2017
Sixty-four year old Sister Joseph Marie Ruessmann, of Alma, Michigan died Thursday night from injuries sustained from a hit-and-run car accident. She was riding her bike Thursday morning near a convent when the hit and run occurred. Sister Joseph Marie, whose birth name is Madeleine Ruessmann, was found lying on the side of the road, her bicycle close by.
America’s Lack of Empathy
August 22, 2017
Most Americans want basically the same things: general prosperity, a reasonably well-educated populace that is steadily becoming healthier, a responsive government that is neither bloated nor corrupt, a social environment that is both safe and free, and a sustainable natural environment.
TOTAL ECLIPSE – BEST REFERENCE SITE NASA
August 21, 2017
On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe inspiring sights – a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun’s tenuous atmosphere – the corona – can be seen, will stretch from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina.
Committees and more committees, yet no work done, no real issues addressed
August 16, 2017
As a young girl, during my week-long Camp Fire Girls camping adventure away from home (the best part!), we learned a little song that preceded every announcement. It went like this, “Announcements, Announcements, Annou-ou-ou-ncements. A horrible death to die… A horrible death to be talked to death…
2017 NAPA INSTITUTE: Bishops Outline Major Cultural Challenges to the New Evangelization
August 15, 2017
NAPA, CA – Four bishops—Most Reverend Borys Gudziak, Eparch of the Ukrainian Greek Eparchy of Paris, Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Most Reverend Samuel Aquila of Denver, and Most Reverend Thomas Paprocki of Springfield—joined by George Weigel, a distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, on the closing day of this year’s Napa Institute to discuss
Advice to a Young Priest
August 8, 2017
The illusion of one being perpetually young was shattered in my case recently when a publishing firm asked me to write some advice to a young priest from the perspective of an elder. For me, youth was a permanent state. I was the very youngest in my college class and, in my Anglican years, at twenty-six I was the youngest parish rector in the nation.
FROM THE PASTOR: Addressing the Transgender “issue” with a dose of Reality
August 6, 2017
The Transfiguration of our Lord did not change him into another form of nature. After the event he was the same man taking the apostles down the mountain as he was when he took them up.
NAPA INSTITUTE: “Today, It’s a Danger to Believe” says Mary Eberstat
August 3, 2017
Special to the Catholic Business Journal—NAPA, CA – Author, Senior Research Fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute and former Senior Fellow at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Mary Eberstadt, addressed an overflow crowd Friday at the Napa Institute with a provocative talk on what unites the forces that are attacking
FROM THE PASTOR: Regroup if you must, then Charge the Enemy
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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.
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