What started as a modest effort to recruit has become a Collector’s item; a review of “The Vatican Cookbook: Presented by the Pontifical Swiss Guards.” My good friend, Andreas Widmer, a former Swiss Guard and now Director of the Entrepreneurship program at the Catholic University of America, provided my first behind-the-curtain glimpse of the Vatican’s…
Life is short. Time is crunched. We each juggle abundant obligations, time-constraints and important demands. As readers of the Catholic Business Journal, we aim to manage it all while well-anchored in Christ and Christ-infused priorities. It isn’t easy. It’s never perfect. Yet even amid the sometimes-messy realities of earthly existence, it is beyond-words important to…
A review of Sam and Gifford Keen’s Prodigal Father Wayward Son: A Roadmap to Reconciliation — Best-selling author, Sam Keen (Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man), and his son, Gifford (Gif), were estranged for many years. Sam’s story is the all too common account of a father working hard, gaining fame and then cashing…
Unstructured time is an under-appreciated and wasted gift in today’s modern industrialized world. We are driven by activity and fill moments of silence with busyness. We are conditioned to equate “work” with virtue and are uneasy with solitude. Authors Raymond Kethledge and Michael Erwin in “Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude” challenge this modern…
A Review of Rev Joseph Roesch MIC’s “Fatima: A Pilgrimage with Mary” — “Fatima: A Pilgrimage with Mary” author Father Joseph Roesch, MIC, is the Vicar General of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a fraternal community of consecrated life in the Roman Catholic Church. He worked as an…
February 12, 2018
A Warning to Aspiring Entrepreneurs and Society at Large: The Abuse of the Justice System to Advance Political Aspirations. Howard Root was an accomplished lawyer when he gambled his career on becoming a medical device entrepreneur.
September 11, 2017
(This is an especially critical read for all Catholics, especially Catholic business professionals. Please share with colleagues!—ed.)
Just weeks ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center absurdly labeled a number of Christian and Catholic groups–including, The Family Research Council, The Ruth Institute, the Alliance Defending Freedom and many more—as “hate groups” because they adhere to traditional views about human sexuality and marriage.
Just days ago, on Wednesday, September 6, 2017, Senator Diane Feinstein pronounced that Amy Barrett, a respected law professor at Notre Dame, may have excluded herself from a federal judgeship by virtue of being a faithful Catholic. Senator Al Franken then accused Barrett of
September 5, 2017
Special to the Catholic Business Journal— NAPA, CA – Syndicated columnist, NBC News Vatican analyst, and Catholic Theologian, George Weigel, spoke to an overflow crowd on “The Next Great Awakening?” at the 2017 Annual Napa Institute.
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
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
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.
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:
November 27, 2016
Special to the Catholic Business Journal, writen by grandson of Chicago Times founder. Much of the mainstream media has disgraced itself in recent years. It has been focused on manipulation by engaging in tactics to “normalize” those who disagree with their points of view by targeting, freezing, personalizing, and polarizing. And most recently, we observed…
July 26, 2016
O. Carter Snead, Law professor and Director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture, spoke on the importance of this year’s Presidential Election.
July 26, 2016
In a PANEL DISCUSSION with Archbishop Bernadito Ausa (Vatican Observer at the United Nations), Archbishop Alexander Sample (Portland), Bishop Michael Barber (Oakland), Bishop Robert Vasa (Santa Rosa), this year’s Napa Institute BISHOPS PANEL focused on the topic: “Genuine Mercy in the Year of Mercy.” Mercy is at the heart of Pope Francis’
July 19, 2016
Exclusive to the Catholic Business Journal by Thomas Loarie, reporting from the Napa Institute. Carly Fiorina, in conversation with Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B Anthony List, stated that she hoped Donald Trump follows through on his vow to “blow things up in Washington D.C.,” adding
July 19, 2016
Special to the Catholic Business Journal by Thomas Loarie, reporting on the Napa Institute – Princeton Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Dr.
July 12, 2016
More wonderful insider tidbits from the Napa Institute conference which ended Sunday afternoon, thanks to Catholic Business Journal’s on-site reporter, columnist and senior editorial advisor, Thomas M. Loarie. These wonderful tidbits involve Mel Gibson, Bishop Barron and more….
Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” Previewed at the Napa Institute
July 9, 2016
Weigel Keynote Opens 6th Annual Napa Institute with an insightful exposé that American Exceptionalism is Under Attack. (for daily tweets from the floor of the Napa Institute, go to www.Twitter.com/CatholicBizNews – @CatholicBizNews)
NAPA, CA, July 8, 2016 – American author and political and Catholic social activist, George Weigel, opened the 6th Annual Napa Institute here yesterday. The theme of this year’s Institute is “Authentic Catholicism.” Weigel began by showing how “American Exceptionalism” has not been a fantasy but a reality.
“One can see it in our daily lives,” Weigel said. “We have been a
May 10, 2016
Learn how the mind uses “Okay” and “I Don’t Care” to keep us from reaching our potential. In a nutshell, Making Your Mind Magnificant, by Steven Campbell, is the best book in years on how to change one’s life.