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A May Holy Spirit Novena With Mary
BY Tom & April Hoopes User's Guide to Sunday
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
May 4 is the Seventh Sunday of Easter. May 1 is Ascension
Thursday, a holy day of obligation. In Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington, May 4 is Ascension Sunday.
Parish
EPriest.com offers best practices from parishes.
From Holy Spirit Catholic Church in... READ MORE
Please Pass the Pupsghetti
Facts of Life
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue 
Could your family fill a small glossary with zany, made-up
words and phrases that no other family — make that no other human being — could
possibly decipher? If so, your words stand alone but your family doesn’t. In
March Paul Dickson, author of Family Words: A Dictionary of the Secret... READ MORE
The Pope Brought Down the House
BY TUCKER CORDANI Music Played Second Fiddle at the Youth Rally
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
Rally was the right word for what took place in Yonkers,
N.Y., April 19. The occasion, of course, was Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to pray
with and inspire young people, seminarians and disabled children at an outdoor
event.
An exuberant crowd of about 25,000 danced to Christian pop
music until... READ MORE
Talk: It’s Cheap
BY Dr. Ray Guarendi Family Matters: Childrearing
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
I’m a mother of three children. It seems like I’m nothing
but a talking machine. All the kids just
shut me off. Any ideas for making myself
heard?
Talk — the illusion of discipline. Nagging, lecturing,
over-reasoning, pleading, cajoling, arguing, threatening, screaming — forms of
talk,... READ MORE
Marriage Help and the Pope’s Friendship
BY Tom & April Hoopes User's Guide to Sunday
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
Sunday, April 27, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Today at 9
a.m., Pope Benedict XVI will ordain deacons for the Diocese of Rome in St.
Peter’s Basilica.
Parish
EPriest.com offers “Best Practices” ideas from various
parishes.
Father Tom Aschenbrener at St. Alphonsus parish in... READ MORE
The Million-Voice Prayer for Life
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Prolife Profile
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
Pope John Paul II knew the power of the Rosary. In his 2002
encyclical Rosarium Virginis Mariae (On the Most Holy Rosary), he called the
Rosary “an effective spiritual weapon against the evils afflicting society.”
Imagine how effective 1 million Rosaries all prayed at the
same hour for one... READ MORE
Ready for Recession
Family Matters - Financial Life
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
I just read that more borrowers are at least 30 days past
due than at any time in the last 16 years. And Ben Bernanke, the chairman of
the Federal Reserve, has now told Congress that a recession is possible. What
should we do?
Over the last few decades, I remember reading that we had
tamed the... READ MORE
A Bear, a Shell, a King
BY Tom & April Hoopes User’s Guide to Sunday
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
April 20 is the Fifth Sunday in Easter (Year A, Cycle II).
Pope Benedict will visit Ground Zero, site of the World Trade Center terrorist
attacks, at 9:30 a.m. At 2:30 p.m., he’ll say Mass at Yankee Stadium. At 8 in
the evening, after taking a helicopter from a heliport on Wall Street, he... READ MORE
Facts of Life
Is Your Boy the Next Benedict?
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
Catholic parents, encourage your sons to become priests — or
at least don’t discourage them — and one of them just might grow up to become
pope. It’s a long shot for sure, but consider that the idea probably would also
have gotten a warm Bavarian chuckle from Joseph Ratzinger Sr. and his... READ MORE
Bringing Up Baby Fears
BY Tom & Caroline McDonald Family Matters - Married Life
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
We’re about to have our first baby, and my husband wants me
to quit working to stay at home for the first few years. I am anxious about the
prospect; I just don’t know if I’m capable. Is it terrible to be frightened by
the whole idea?
Tom: It doesn’t sound terrible at all. It sounds... READ MORE
The Pope loves Life
Benedict's notably quotable pro-life moments
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
‘Respected, Protected and Promoted’
“Each according to his or her possibilities, profession and
responsibilities, should feel in themselves an obligation to love and serve
life, from its beginning to its natural end. It is, in fact, everyone’s duty to
welcome human life as a gift to be... READ MORE
The Good Shepherd and the Pope
BY Tom & April Hoopes User’s Guide to Sunday
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
Sunday, April 13, is the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year A,
Cycle II); it’s Good Shepherd Sunday.
Parish
Epriest.com shares “Best Practices” submitted by parishes.
Good Shepherd Sunday is also a day of prayer for vocations.
Father Greg Paffel, pastor of the Church of St. John in the Diocese... READ MORE
Two Hearts Are Better Than One
Facts of Life
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
If you’re in a happy marriage, the odds are in your heart’s
favor. That’s according to a new study at Brigham Young University, published
in the March 20 issue of the journal Annals of Behavioral
Medicine, which specifically found that happily married people have lower blood
pressure than... READ MORE
The Collar and the Kitchen
BY MONTA HERNON Pro-Family Profile
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
He has been called a cross between talk-show host Rachael
Ray and Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes,” but at the heart of the matter Father
Leo Patalinghug is looking to bring families closer together and closer to God
using the simplest of recipes: Stir things up and have dinner together. ... READ MORE
Springing New Readers Forward
BY Patricia A. Crawford and Kerry Crawford Children’s Book Picks
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
In many ways, springtime is a tease: What appears also
conceals. Green buds pop into view, but it’s the full flower they hide within
that we’re really waiting for. And those, of course, won’t be in full bloom
till summer.
The good news is that getting there is half the joy.
And, just as... READ MORE
Lead by Character
BY Dave Durand Family Matters: Working Life
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
I have read practically every leadership book on the market.
Many of them teach various techniques while others seem more centered on
self-improvement. When it comes to leadership, how much weight do you give to
methods vs. character development?
This is a great question and it will resurface... READ MORE
Emmaus Walks and Looking to Peter
BY Tom & April Hoopes User’s Guide to Sunday
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
Sunday, April 6, is the Third Sunday of Easter (Year A,
Cycle II). In St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday, April 2, Pope Benedict XVI
will celebrate a Mass to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Pope John
Paul II.
Parish
EPriest.com offers best practices for parishes on... READ MORE
Holiday Road Leads to Harmony Highway
Facts of Life
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
A new survey of mothers in the United Kingdom shows that,
when it comes to taking a vacation, “mums” not only want the kids along — they
wouldn’t want to leave home without them. More than 70% of the poll’s 7,000
respondents said they value the uninterrupted family time that... READ MORE
Speaking Youth to Power
BY STEPHEN VINCENT Pro-life Profile
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
Anna Halpine is 30 years old and out of a job — by her own
design. In 1999, she founded the New York City-based World Youth Alliance and
led the non-governmental organization as president through a decade of growth,
lobbying on pro-life and pro-family issues at the United Nations and the
European... READ MORE
The Faustina You Never Knew
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN Meet the Sainted Nun Behind a Special Sunday
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
At the same time Pope John Paul II canonized Sister Faustina
Kowalska the first saint of the new millennium on Apr. 30, 2000, he proclaimed
the Second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday for the entire Church,
forever linking the feast and the saint.
By doing so, the late Holy Father signaled... READ MORE
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