Antony Barone Kolenc speaks with Elizabeth Gillette about her own experience as a post-abortive mother and about how women can reconcile with themselves and with God after an abortion.
CWG Book Blast! ‘Rebellion’ by Michael LaMorte
This month, the Catholic Writers Guild is touring Michael LaMore’s book, ‘Rebellion: The Epic Saga of Marriage, Satan, and the Battle for Our Souls.’
CWG Book Blast! “Peace in Pregnancy: Devotions for the Expectant Mother, by Kathryn Anne Casey
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Kathryn Casey’s book, “Peace in Pregnancy: Devotions for the Expectant Mother.” It has an Imprimatur from Bishop Kevin C. Rhodes and a Nihil Obstat from Msgr. Michael Heintz, Ph.D. Pregnancy is full of challenges, but peace is still possible. Summary: Peace in […]
Aid to Women, Life to the Unborn
“They have some kind of religious service there on Saturday mornings. How messed up is that?” This is exactly what I heard one Planned Parenthood escort say to another as I was stood outside the Aid To Women Center in Tempe, Arizona waiting for it to open. I was easy to […]
Cath-Lit Live: The Love We Vow
Video: Amy J. Cattapan interviews Victoria Everleigh about her newly published novel, The Love We Vow.
Wounded Souls and Quiet Heroes
Driving into town this morning, passing by the refurbished diner, the town hall—its door wide open to the Coffee and Gab Saturday regulars, a friend heading into the post office, and finally turning into the Glendale Cemetery to check on a recent inquiry about a gravesite, I considered a book my friend […]
Chorus
A poem a day might well keep despair away. I’ve been reading 150 Most Famous Poems published by Poetry House with works by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and many more. What I find so extraordinary is that while reading, I enter a sort of dreamland, […]
Menagerie of Hidden Influences
My synaptic mailbox is full. Sitting in a relatively quiet room—the birds are chirping outside, the downstairs refrigerator is rattling, and the drier is whirling about—I alternate my gaze from myriad unfinished projects to pictures and paintings covering the walls to the well-tended jungle growing just beyond my porch. In […]
If Trees Could Talk
If trees could talk, What would they say? If they could walk, Would they also play? Leaves tremble in silent breeze. Their colors change, as seasons please. Fruit for the plucking. Bees—nectar sucking. Giants with myriad homes, Rest for the weary soul. Hewn down. Unable to escape—fire, flood, disease… Yet […]
Journey On
It amazes me that we humans ever understand each other given our robust ability to mess with syntax, translations, and meaning. Some years back, the kids and I visited my dad in Kansas. My youngest, only about five at the time, was very impressed by something my dad shared with […]