As Thanksgiving approaches let us all focus on our many blessings and the reasons we have to be thankful. September 24, 2015, was an unforgettable day for us and a historic day for America. It started long before daylight with a walk in the cool Washington, D.C. air as we headed to clear security for those to be on the West Lawn of the U.S.
November 14, 2015
If you know Paris, you know well that a Parisien’s home or apartment is sacred; a place for family and initmate friends only.
November 14, 2015
Reports this afternoon of multiple, likely coordinated, brutal and senseless terrorist attacks in Paris—with The Guardian and Reuters reporting up to 158 dead so far—have rocked the world, especially in light of recent unprecedented numbers of mostly Muslim
November 11, 2015
The China Daily has cheerfully announced the economic gains expected through the implementation of its new two-child policy: an increased labor force and GDP, as well as a reduction in the percentage share of elderly people. Official publications, however, have not asserted that the new two-child policy will balance the other great demog
November 10, 2015
Most interesting video released recently…. Read More>>
What sources fund Planned Parenthood? If we know this, we can actively do our part to help defund it. Here is a quick roadmap on how to do it and why it is so important.
November 3, 2015
There were plenty of reasons the Kansas City Royals shouldn’t have win the 2015 World Series… but they defied them all, inspiring all with unspoken lessons for the rest of us, especially us Catholic business professionals… Never Quit. Stay Focused. Do what you have to do (ethically) to Stay in the Game.
November 3, 2015
Many leaders have something of an obsession with retention, and a corresponding fear of attrition. Whether we’re talking about employees, customers or even members of a church congregation, we seem to have an almost unconscious desire to do whatever we can to keep anyone from leaving. So we compromise our strat
November 2, 2015
Michael Van Hecke, M.Ed., founder of the only history textbook publishing company for Catholic schools—the Catholic Textbook Project—and seasoned headmaster of a consistently Top 50 ranked Catholic school, will be attending (by invitation from the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education) the Vatican World Congress on Catho
October 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Becket Fund is defendi
October 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 (CATHOLIC BUSINESS WIRE) — The Chinese government is apparently ready loosen to the stranglehold it has had on reproduction in that country since the late seventies—a little bit. Under the new policy, married Chinese couples will be allowed not one, but two children.
October 29, 2015
October 27, 2015
.- With a two-thirds majority vote, the more than 200 bishops gathered for the Vatican’s synod on the family supported Church teaching on hot-button issues such as homosexuality and communion for divorced and remarried persons.
October 27, 2015
Brooklyn, one of America’s biggest sees.
I have been co-leading a ministry, SING (St. Isidore’s Networking Group, Danville, CA), since 2002 which is focused on providing tools and support to those in career transition.
October 13, 2015
It takes special courage to say so, in that business—the business of Anitchrist?…. Read More>>
October 6, 2015
We must all pray for the success of the World Conference on the Family this September and the Synod on the Family following in October. Pope Francis is optimistic about the work to be done and recommendations that will be made to him. Pope Francis will make the decision on any outcomes of the Synod. Pope Francis is particularly concerned about “stress” on the family.
October 6, 2015
As of Monday, October 5, 2015, California became the fourth state in the U.S. with a state law allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medications to terminally ill patients, thanks to a former Jesuit seminarian, California Governor Jerry Brown, who signed the bill into law.
September 29, 2015
Now that the U.S.
September 28, 2015
The Super-Harvest Blood Moon on Sunday night…. Read the easy-to-understand, fascinating NASA explanation and video here>>