Some financial advice for Mother’s Day: How working moms can ease their load
The Christian Science Monitor
5/5/2008, by Kathleen Connell
American families celebrating Mother's Day next Sunday might take some time to reflect on the changing financial role that mothers play.
The days when mothers remained home to raise children are rapidly disappearing.
Today, most mothers hold jobs outside the home, assume the burden of ...
Experts worry: Can earth provide enough food for 9 billion people by the year 2050?
The Christian Science Monitor
4/30/2008, by David R. Francis
The world is an odd place. A tight global food situation with record-high grain prices presents the possibility of increasing malnutrition, perhaps famine, in parts of Africa and South Asia. Yet an estimated 1.6 billion adults, about a quarter of the world's 6.7 billion people, are overweight, some ...
Organ donation a way to give of oneself — literally — to give another a fighting chance
Denver Catholic Register
4/30/2008, by John Gleason
DENVER, CO (Denver Catholic Register) - April has been designated National Donate Life Month, a time to educate Americans about the need for organ and tissue donation and transplantations. Right now in our nation, nearly 100,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. Every day, 18 ...
How Earth Day became … so everyday
The Christian Science Monitor
4/21/2008, by Gregory M. Lamb
(The Christian Science Monitor) - At 38 years old, Earth Day seems to be entering a midlife identity crisis. By one estimate, some 1 billion people around the world will do something to observe the anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970, a landmark in the history of the environmental movement. ...
Women urged to use gifts
and honor God in doing tasks
The Criterion
4/2/2008, by Mary Ann Wyand
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (The Criterion) - Every person is God’s work of art. Internationally known author and inspirational speaker Kathy Coffey of Denver discussed ways to live an artful and faithful life in her keynote address during the sixth annual Catholic Women’s Convocation on March 8 at St. ...
Conquered by St. Patrick’s Mountain: Irish peak proved more difficult than anticipated
The Christian Science Monitor
3/27/2008, by F. Anthony D'Alessandro
WESTPORT, County Mayo, Ireland (The Christian Science Monitor) - Running with the bulls triggered more terror, but climbing Ireland's Croagh Patrick proved tougher. While I carefully planned strategies for a year in advance to successfully run in Pamplona, Spain, my climb of Croagh Patrick (St. ...
Easter Sunday: Scriptural Reflections from Lazarus Saturday to Easter Sunday
Unknown
3/15/2008, by Jeanne Conte (with poetry by Christina Georgina Rossetti)
(Catholic Online) – Holy Week is upon us, the time we reach the pinnacle of our Lenten experience and walk the road that brought Jesus back to Jerusalem, a road that led ultimately to his death on the cross. The reflections here begin on the day before Palm Sunday with the story of the raising of ...
Make time for God, rest, and each other
Catholic Explorer
3/12/2008, by Kim Lovejoy-Voss
WINFIELD, Ill. (Catholic Explorer) - John Blumberg spent many years as a certified public accountant at Arthur Anderson and then moved to the human resources department where his responsibilities included worldwide recruiting. However, in 1996 he walked away from the safety of his job to follow a ...
Iraq War vets get back on college track
The Christian Science Monitor
3/9/2008, by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo
HANOVER, N.H.(The Christian Science Monitor) -
Jason Hord ran his own construction business before his Army National Guard unit deployed to Iraq in 2006. Six months later – after surviving a nearby hit from a rocket-propelled grenade – he found himself adjusting to life with one eye, wondering ...
Men’s health: Taking care of body while young is a good long-term investment
The Catholic Review
2/15/2008, by Chaz Muth
BALTIMORE, Md.(The Catholic Review) - Jerry Smith of Hamilton pampers the pickup truck he purchased a short time ago with careful attention to maintenance and cleaning to ensure the vehicle lasts. It’s the same principle the 28-year-old St. Dominic, Hamilton, parishioner applies to his own body. ...
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