BOOK REVIEW: The Antidote For a World That Has Lost Its Way When It Comes to Finding True Happiness

BOOK REVIEW: The Antidote For a World That Has Lost Its Way When It Comes to Finding True Happiness

J. Budziszewski’s book How and How Not to Be Happy is a refreshing and enlightening read in a world that seems to have lost its way when it comes to finding true happiness. In a culture where suicide, depression, nihilism, fear of the apocalypse, and a denial of God’s existence are pervasive, this book offers…

U.S. Supreme Court issues 8-1 ruling allowing legislative leaders to defend voter ID

U.S. Supreme Court issues 8-1 ruling allowing legislative leaders to defend voter ID

The Carolina Journal—The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, 8-1, that N.C. legislative leaders will be able to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging that state’s voter ID law. The decision reverses a ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “[F]ederal courts should rarely question that a State’s interests will be practically impaired or…

A Kiss and a Wave

A Kiss and a Wave

There are times when you observe things that simply take you aback; knock you for a loop. Actions or occurrences in our everyday lives that hit a nerve; sometimes for the good, like a gratuitous kindness, and sometimes for the bad, like palpable selfishness. These lived reminders are usually stark memorable and instructive – they…

Catholic journalist recounts ‘horrifying experience’ of witnessing Nigeria firefight

Catholic journalist recounts ‘horrifying experience’ of witnessing Nigeria firefight

CNA—A Catholic freelance journalist who has reported on a surge of violent attacks by radicalized Muslims in Nigeria for CNA recently found himself caught in the middle of a firefight between government soldiers and armed militiamen. “With hundreds of bullets flying over my head, and the whizzing gunfire whipping past my ears, lying flat on…

Film Review of “The Hong Konger”: Jimmy Lai’s Moral Heroism

Film Review of “The Hong Konger”: Jimmy Lai’s Moral Heroism

Don’t Miss this film on Catholic businessman Jimmy Lai—WSJ—Currently imprisoned by the Chinese government for pressing the case for freedom and democracy, the defiant entrepreneur and media mogul is the focus of a stirring, free-to-stream documentary. “It would be so boring just being a businessman,” notes the Hong Kong entrepreneur and media mogul Jimmy Lai,…

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai–a devout Catholic–denied lawyer of his choice, remains imprisoned

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai–a devout Catholic–denied lawyer of his choice, remains imprisoned

WSJ—A Hong Kong court ruled Friday that imprisoned newspaperman Jimmy Lai, a devout Catholic, can’t hire the British lawyer he wants for his upcoming national security trial. That came the morning after Mr. Lai’s son Sebastian accepted the Cato Institute’s prestigious Milton Friedman Prize on behalf of his father in Washington. The two events tell…

SAINTS AT WORK: St. Edward the Confessor – King of England

SAINTS AT WORK: St. Edward the Confessor – King of England

St. Edward was born in 1003, the son of the Duke of Normandy and nephew of King Edmund Ironside of England. Grew up in exile He grew up in exile in Normandy from the age of 10, when the Danes gained control of England. The early experience of loss, coupled with his earnest religious piety,…

Feds Tell Catholic Hospital to Blow Out Sanctuary Light or Patients in Need Lose Funding f

Feds Tell Catholic Hospital to Blow Out Sanctuary Light or Patients in Need Lose Funding f

— read latest update here — From time immemorial, Catholic parishes’ sanctuary lamps have signaled the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. But the current U.S. administration’s federal officials recently told a thriving Catholic hospital to extinguish its chapel sanctuary lamps or stop serving elderly, disabled and low-income patients. Feds threaten to strip hospital…

Obit and Funeral Details for Catholic Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan dies at 92

Obit and Funeral Details for Catholic Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan dies at 92

Richard Joseph Riordan was the first Catholic to serve as Mayor of Los Angeles in the modern era,  serving as mayor from 1993 to 2001. He is largely credited for guiding the city in the aftermath of the 1992 L.A. Riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. “Tough enough to turn L.A. around” As a successful…

Frightful Fire  Easter Morning at Thomas Aquinas College Chapel – New England campus

Frightful Fire Easter Morning at Thomas Aquinas College Chapel – New England campus

Early Easter morning, as head chaplain Fr. Greg Markey opened the chapel door at Thomas Aquinas College, New England campus, thick black smoke rushed out the door and in his face.  He quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and tackled the blaze, only slightly diminishing the raging flames. It wasn’t enough to douse the flames devouring…

The Camino and Daily Life, an interview with Four Bishops

The Camino and Daily Life, an interview with Four Bishops

As precursor to a film on The Camino, below please find a conversation with four bishops who have walked The Camino many times  — Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico.  Together, along with moderator Kathryn…

Suspect Carlos Medina Confesses to Senseless Murder of L.A. Bishop David O’Connell

Suspect Carlos Medina Confesses to Senseless Murder of L.A. Bishop David O’Connell

Among the many articles on the murder of Ireland native, Los Angeles Bishop David G. O’Connell, Catholic Business Journal found the following article the Los Angeles Times to be the most to-the-point and informative, especially as one reads the full article to the end:  A 61-year-old man who prosecutors said has admitted that he killed…

We’ll Keep It Simple: Just TWO Recommendations for Giving Tuesday

We’ll Keep It Simple: Just TWO Recommendations for Giving Tuesday

Yes, it’s near the end of Giving Tuesday today and there are many wonderful charities to support.  But at Catholic Business Journal, we humbly ask you to consider TWO standouts: The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education JP II Life Center and Vitae Clinic See below for our “Why”: 1.   The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education…

Papal artist unveils stunning painting of Benedict XVI as pope emeritus

Papal artist unveils stunning painting of Benedict XVI as pope emeritus

Rome-CNA—Natalia Tsarkova, official portrait artist to the popes for more than 20 years, likes to work from real life. “I am so meticulous about details. I have to see and touch and feel everything,” she said. But for her latest painting, a portrait of Benedict XVI in his life as pope emeritus, some objects could…

Texas Law declares “No More Censorship”: Update on State Laws Against Big Tech Censorship

Texas Law declares “No More Censorship”: Update on State Laws Against Big Tech Censorship

The big internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google are no longer allowed to censor conservative viewpoints in Texas. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a Texas law outlawing Big Tech censorship, requiring the social media platforms to disclose and justify their editorial standards. While this is generally good news for…

Catholic Artist Timothy Schmalz: His Padre Pio sculpture to be blessed on saint’s feast day…‘I have to honor him’

CNA—Catholic artist Timothy P. Schmalz calls Padre Pio his favorite saint. And so, when he learned that four of his sculptures would honor the Italian mystic on his feast day—Sept. 23—he was overjoyed. “I thought a couple years ago about that moment in my life where Padre Pio gave me that peace and comfort and…

Two Truckers Saved from Suicide Thanks to the Catholic Chapels at Gas Stations in Brazil

Two Truckers Saved from Suicide Thanks to the Catholic Chapels at Gas Stations in Brazil

For 30 years, Rede Marajó, a chain of highway service stations in Brazil, has built and maintained Blessed Sacrament chapels at seven of its gas stations and plan to expand to more of their stations. Janeth Vaz (in feature photo at one of their gas station chapels) is director of the company. Each of these…

Full text of Archbishop Cordileone letter to Nancy Pelosi banning her from Communion

Full text of Archbishop Cordileone letter to Nancy Pelosi banning her from Communion

Today the Archbishop of San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s archbishop, publicly released the Notification Letter he had privately sent to Pelosi more than a month earlier regarding her impossibly contradictory public, unrelenting push for abortion and her very public claim to be Catholic. Read the the full text…

Can A Warning From The Past Give Us An Answer For The Present?

Can A Warning From The Past Give Us An Answer For The Present?

So much has happened over the last 30 days and we have so many blessings for which to be grateful. Even so, inner anxiety and pressure to get things done can trigger unfortunate conflicts even among those we love the most.  Wiser heads and hearts than ours, and examples from Church history, give us some…

“Be of Good Cheer!”

“Be of Good Cheer!”

Inspiring words of Sr. Constance Veit, Little Sisters of the Poor, at the May 2016 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast— During the legal journey that led up to our day at the Supreme Court many people offered us advice and support. Three counsels stuck with me and have strongly influenced my life in the last few…

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