February 10, 2009
by Andrew Marquardt Tucked away in my Kansas City office, I banged away a letter to the Wall Street Journal (Jan 29, 2009) questioning Merrill Lynch’s media-driven defense of executive bonuses in the face of 28 billion in losses. That exercise stemmed from an ongoing reflection, as a Catholic CEO and lawyer, about the principles…
February 9, 2009
By Father Joseph Shea A couple of weeks ago, two of my priest friends and I went to see the new movie, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise. The movie presents the true life story about a large-scale conspiracy within the German army to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The heroic German Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg led the coup. …
February 9, 2009
FOCA is an acronym for “Freedom of Choice Act,” a legislative bill reintroduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Barbara Boxer (D, CA) and in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (D, NY) the day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial birth abortion (Partial Birth Abortion Ban…
February 5, 2009
I strongly recommend reading an article which appeared on the Catholic Education Resource Center website here: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0148.htm. The piece is well-written and intelligently captures the Culture of Life vs. Death issue in a way that compels us to action. We need to pray…and do something. God bless, Randy
January 25, 2009
Nationwide, more than 289,000 citizens participated in walks for life, including an estimated 250,000 participating in the Washington D.C. March for Life, more than 32,000 participating in the San Francisco Walk for Life WC (pictured above), and more than 7,000 participating in Portland, Oregon’s Walk for Life—All commemorating the 36th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…
January 24, 2009
CLICK HERE TO SEE Senator Brownback’s short address to the U.S. Senate floor on the morning of January 22, 2009, the same day that the March for Life took place at the nation’s capital, remembering the unborn on the 36th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in our…
January 23, 2009
Washington, D.C.—Estimates of between 150,000 to more than 250,000 — nearly a quarter of a million — college students, young adults, parents, business professionals, bishops, priests, U.S. Congressmen and women, and national pro-ife leaders converged on the nation’s capital for the 36th annual March For Life on Thursday, January 22, 2009. The March for Life…
October 1, 2008
SANTIAGO, Chile (Zenit.org)—The financial crisis under way in the United States should remind us that the human person must be at the center of the economy, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Cardinal Renato Martino affirmed this in a press conference during a visit he is making to Chile through Wednesday.…
October 1, 2008
By Mirko Testa ROME, SEPT. 30, 2008 (Zenit.org)—Politics needs Christianity and it is therefore totally legitimate for believers to participate in the public square, says Benedict XVI’s secretary of state. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (pictured above) affirmed this today in Rome when he spoke at a conference titled “The Century of Beliefs,” on the occasion of…
October 1, 2008
There’s something more powerful than political rhetoric blowing across the nation these days, and it may just have a greater impact on our culture than one might at first imagine. What is it? Prayer. Simple, strategic, committed prayer, organized by local citizens in more than 170 locations, in 45 states — from Alabama and Massachusetts,…
March 11, 2008
Dear Dick: I’m a confidential secretary. The problem is my boss. In an effort to please people, she tells them what they want to hear. This means that many times she is untruthful, telling one person one story and another person a story that conflicts dramatically. These are not minor variations of the same story,…
October 3, 2007
Greetings and peace. As the chaplain for the new Catholic Business Journal, I would like to welcome you to this excellent online resource for timely and appropriate business information brought to you with a Catholic perspective. In my column I hope to provide thoughtful reflections from my own experience as a monk, priest, and CEO.…