Got a favorite in the horserace and want to watch him pull ahead, fall back, and take the lead again… maybe.  What you need is an easy way to keep track of the polls.  Of course they might…

Now that Huckabee has made such a big and unexpected splash, you are going to hear more and more about the tax reform proposal he has endorsed – the "Fair Tax."  Here are a couple of sources if you are…

File under "I Really Am Not Demanding Nearly Enough of Myself" or maybe under "One of the Most Amazing Things I Have Ever Seen" — a blind painter developes a Braille-like painting technique. On YouTube, of course.

This beautiful YouTube video is called The Price of Salvation: The Life of Christ. It features the life of Christ as conceived by some of the greatest artists over the past 1000 years, wonderfully set to music.

Download this terrific pro-life song and share with others or download sheet music for performances. "We Want to See the World" by David Burke.

My wife dragged me off to see the recently released animated Ten Commandments. I will admit that there was a little kicking and screaming. I was looking forward to something with a little more action.

Okay, okay! I will…

This is a 29 minute video program concerning the upcoming 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting. You can get more information at www.40daysforlife.com and then view this show here.

This is something that can be done as a parish, family, or individual, and…

Check out CatholicMil's latest, "In God We Trust" song and video on YouTube.

To find out how you can help Catholic military families and the chaplains who serve them, go here.

Denise Hunnell aka Catholic Mom has asked some very important questions regarding the USCCB's appointment of Kathy Saile as the new Director of Domestic Policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

This important and very public post has gone to…

They take the kids grocery shopping!  Mom of 6 explains why she is selling the Pokeman cards on eBay.

(No, I didn't mean that grocery shopping with kids was heaven — but it sure can shorten your time in purgatory.)

During the massive prayer rally of 07.07.07 that drew an estimated 100,000 primarily young people to Nashville this July, a former abortionist begged God for mercy and joined crowds in praying for a definitive end to the national crime…

Catholic Soccer Mom, Christine, and owner of two blogs Ramblings of a Catholic Soccer Mom and Domestic Vocation, has a terrific review of Champions of Faith along with her thoughts about why our children need examples of public Catholics. Here is…

Our dear Pope Benedict greets children and prays the Rosary along a mountain path in this enchanting four-and-a-half minute video of a man who, it seems, cannot escape the camera for a moment.

Here's a video interview with Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, auxiliary of San Diego, at The Cafeteria is Closed blog.  The Bishop is a good friend of Catholic Exchange and appears in our film Champions of Faith. As the interviewer says:

He's a…

The best overview and commentary on the Holy Father's motu proprio on the Latin Mass that I've seen so far comes from Fr. Richard C. Hermes, S.J., pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Orleans.

Fr. Hermes…

These are the lyrics of the second verse of the number one song in Quebec right now, translated from French and heard here (with English subtitles):

Your great-great-grandmother had 14 children

Your great-grandmother had almost as many

And as for your grandmother three…

CE's very own Tom Allen is interviewed on the GoodCatholic.com blog's Catholic Spotlight podcast.  Tom talks about the making of Champions of Faith, why it's so important that all Catholic men see this film, and some exciting new…

USMC: Making the world (or at least the seminary) safe for orthodoxy. Very funny YouTube video. 

Here is a great offer from a language software company: A Free Word-by-Word Genesis CD is being made available as a joint project of jewishsoftware.com and the Jewish Continuity Foundation.

One Free CD per household while supplies (500) last.

Word by…

John Pacheco, a Canadian friend of Catholic Exchange, has fired off a letter to Mac Convenience Stores to protest their mockery of the Catholic faith in an ad campaign featuring a nun and a praying goat. See the ad poster…

Francis Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor University and current president of the Evangelical Theological Society, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church, as reported in Beckwith's own blog, and Touchstone's Mere Comments blog.  Technically,…

Heidi Hess Saxton of Canticle Magazine reports in her blog that the 3 1/2 year old son of a Canticle employee has just been diagnosed with leukemia and will be undergoing chemotherapy. His name is Gabriel Sullivan, son of Tom and…

This is a little late for the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which was on April 15, but here is a site dedicated to the memory of Father Thomas Byles, an English priest who went down…

This outstanding interview with Touchstone's Anthony Esolen focuses on an often-discussed but still very relevant topic: the need for men to live up to their God-given gifts to serve their families and others.  

There are some great Catholic organizations…

At Touchstone’s website, N.T. Wright offers a retrospective and appreciation of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, one of the most Catholic books by a non-Catholic, on the sixtieth anniversary of its publication. Further discussion here.

This thin volume has brought…

Human Life International has graciously given Catholic Exchange permission to run Father Thomas Euteneuer's series of video lectures on contraception.

In the first video, he explains how contraception does not prevent abortions, but rather the opposite. In the second,…

Here's a comprehensive website on the Divine Mercy from the Congregation of The Sisters of Merciful Jesus, an order of sisters founded by Fr. Michael Sopocko, the spiritual director of St. Faustina.

This link came from RayOfMercy.org, a new Divine Mercy…

The novena began on Good Friday, but it's not too late to start.

The Divine Mercy novena , revealed by our Lord to St. Faustina Kowalska , was one of the favorite devotions of the Servant of God Pope John…

As reported on Amy Welborn's blog, the "the Diocese of Rome officially concluded its investigation into the life, virtues and fame of sanctity of Servant of God John Paul II."  "The diocesan investigation over, the acts and documents will…

Fr. Nguyen Van Ly, a Vietnamese priest and pro-democracy activist, was sentenced to eight years in prison for "anti-government activities". He has already spent 14 of the past 24 years imprisoned for his opposition to the Communist government of…

As mentioned in The Western Confucian :

A top Zimbabwean Roman Catholic cleric said on Wednesday he was ready to face bullets in anti-government street protests to help restore the rule of law in President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

"As for me I…

Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, the founder and editor of Ignatius Press, former head of the formerly-renowned Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, and student and personal friend of Pope Benedict XVI, has been asked to resign as…

The new Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS, is available on the Vatican website.  The big news about this document is that it contains no big news, whether about the Tridentine Rite Mass, crackdowns on liturgical abuses,…

Lat Friday evening, Fr. Tom Euteneuer appeared on Fox's Hannity and Colmes. His appearance followed a column in Human Life International's E-newsletter in which the good Father took Mr. Hannity to task for his public apology for taking two…

Click here for a powerful, concise Lenten message from the Cardinal Archbishop of Philadelphia.  These are so good that we'll be running them every week throughout Lent.

Thanks be to God for good shepherds like the Cardinal. 

Now really, isn't this just a kind of backhanded admission that Christians are right?  From St. Paul onward we have said that it is all about the empty tomb — if Christ be not raised our hope is…

The always-noteworthy Amy Welborn directs us to Scripture scholar Ben Witherington's ten-point refutation of Titanic director James Cameron's purported discovery of the tomb of Christ. Lively discussion on the topic at Amy's blog.

At Touchstone's Mere Comments blog, David Mills reminds us that a week into Lent, it's not too late to start giving something up.  It's better late than never, so consider this delayed start "the spiritual equivalent of being…

We're back home today after a long flight across the Pacific. I hope to post soon on the topics of missionary evangelization, inculturation, and recent controversies surrounding the preaching of the Gospel in non-Christian lands.

For now, I'll…

Today is our last day in Thailand. I had lunch with two prominent Catholic businessmen, both converts and active in evangelization. They spoke of great hope in the Thai Church. Although Catholics are an insignificant 0.44% of the…

I'm currently in Thailand visiting my in-laws in the northern suburbs of Bangkok. While I'm here, I'll try to file a few reports on the Catholic Church in Thailand. In a country that's 96% Buddhist and less than…

Everyone loves a conversion story. Or a re-version story.

There's a great thread on Amy Welborn's blog with stories from people who had left the Church and then came back. 72 stories so far.

Mark Shea has his own thread…

Although there are a few other strong contenders, the Third Commandment may be more misunderstood and simply ignored of all the Ten in our fast-paced, non-stop modern world. For most of us, "Remember the Sabbath Day and keep…

Catholic Exchange will be hosting the first-ever event to promote our upcoming film, Champions of Faith , on February 11, at Soldier Field's Cadillac Club (home of the soon to be Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears).

At this benefit reception , hosted…

The good Dominican Friars have put together an 18-minute video of the March for Life that took place in Washington DC yesterday. It includes the personal testimony of many Dominican Friars, Sisters, CFR's, Renewal Sisters, pastors, campus ministers, college…

Yesterday's Walk For Life West Coast was a great success. Somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 people showed up to testify to the value of life and the need to protect the unborn.

At the opening rally, Archbishop Niederauer of San…

The folks over at Apologetics Index have made some excerpts available from the book, Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias (Bay Tree Publishing).

Here a few tidbits from the section Who Joins…

The third annual West Coast Walk for Life is this coming Saturday, January 20, in San Francisco. All the details here. Last year 15,000 people showed up, and this year should be even bigger.  If you're anywhere near…

So many of the family life articles in Catholic and other Christian publications and websites are focused on parenting, quality time with kids, etc. That's all well and good, but it seems the Fourth Commandment is often overlooked…

Mark Shea alerts us to this item from Catholic News Service about Sylvester Stallone's return to the Catholic faith. Not only is Sly publicly professing his devotion to Christ and his Church, but he's incorporated religious references into his new…