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Contraception Advice for Big KidsWhile I was waiting for my 13-year-old son who was getting a haircut, I started flipping through a women’s magazine and was drawn to a slick, double-page ad for an implant contraceptive. A beautiful young woman with a radiant smile beamed out from the page with all her potential life plans laid out attractively: “get a job,” “find my own place,” “fall in love,” “save up,” “take a trip,” “finish school" (interestingly, ”get married" was not among the desired …

  How a Popular Mis-Quotation Made it Into the Catechism In the sixteenth century, St. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits. Supporters and critics alike have called them “God’s Marines” in recognition of their founder’s military background and their willingness to be deployed around the world in service of the Church. The Jesuits’ founding document is even addressed to “Whoever desires to serve as a soldier of God beneath the …

Leading your Protestant friends into the Catholic Church can seem like a hopeless task. Your friend may seem too far away, too biased against Catholicism, or even too apathetic. I would have loved to have had Jimmy Akin as my wingman in discussions with Protestants about Catholicism more times than I can count, but he is usually busy and, last I checked, hadn’t mastered the art of bilocation. I was sitting at lunch one day with friends: one Catholic, two Protestants, and we were having a …

A major new book from Catholic Answers Press promises to help parents address the challenging sexual subjects that modern society forces on kids. Made This Way: How To Prepare Kids To Face Today’s Tough Moral Issues by Leila Miller and Trent Horn is the first-ever book to help concerned parents and educators equip children with a natural law understanding of morality that’s based on the inherent design of our human nature. It doesn’t come a minute too soon. “The culture t …

In this excerpt from his new book, What the Saints Never Said, Trent Horn tells you exactly why and how misquotations of the Saints can lead to problems, and even the spreading of heresy.The villain clad in black raises his fist at the hero and says, “Luke, I am your father!” The dashing captain unfolds his communicator and gives the order, “Beam me up, Scotty.” A mysterious jungle man sets down the woman he’s rescued and she teaches him to say, “Me Tarzan, yo …