Category: Society & Common Good

Senate Rejects Controversial Disability Treaty
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Senate Rejects Controversial Disability Treaty

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by on Dec 07, 2012 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Government & Politics
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The United States Senate voted this week against ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The 61-38 vote failed to garner the two-thirds majority necessary for ratification due to serious concerns that it would undermine sovereignty and parental rights, and be interpreted to advance abortion.“For decades, the United […]

10,000 Pro-lifers Rally in Dublin Amidst Heated Abortion Debate
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10,000 Pro-lifers Rally in Dublin Amidst Heated Abortion Debate

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by on Dec 07, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Over 10,000 gathered outside Ireland’s parliament this week to demand that Prime Minister Enda Kenny keep his campaign promise of 2011 not to bring legalized abortion into the Republic. The crowd included five Catholic bishops, and was organized by a united effort of all of Ireland’s pro-life organizations. The thousands, chanting “Keep your promise!”, packed […]

Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò
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The Apostolic Nuncio Explains It All

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by on Dec 06, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Religious freedom, persecution, and martyrdom in the age of Obama. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Vatican’s Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, is a well-traveled man, having served in Iraq, Kuwait, Great Britain, Strasbourg, Nigeria and, now, the United States. As a churchman and a diplomat, the Archbishop is in a unique position to analyze […]

Choosing Acreage Over Stocks
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Choosing Acreage Over Stocks

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by on Dec 05, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, Personal Finance
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From an early age, my dad drilled into my head the lessons of compounding interest. It was quite simple: start investing in stocks early on in life, add just a little each month, wait a while, and watch as your savings grows by leaps and bounds! Numbers were touted about how the market had averaged […]

UNICEF Should Rename Itself the United Nations Sex for Children Fund, or UNISEX
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UNICEF Should Rename Itself the United Nations Sex for Children Fund, or UNISEX

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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UN agency presses Peru to acknowledge the “sexual rights” of children and hands out free contraceptives to kids. The debate over a new Code on Childhood and Adolescence is raging in Peru. On the one side are UNICEF, UNFPA, Save the Children and a coalition of abortion-minded and radical feminist groups, many, if not most, […]

Judge Judy and Distributism
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Judge Judy and Distributism

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, On Media
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Judge Judy fascinates me. It’s true, my tastes are a bit odd. I’ll admit to that. In fact, there are only three television shows I watch regularly—The Journey Home on EWTN, in which Marcus Grodi interviews converts to the Catholic Faith; Phineas and Ferb, a Disney Channel cartoon and the only TV show in history to feature a secret agent […]

<em>Liberty, the God that Failed</em>: Interview with the Author, Christopher Ferrara
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Liberty, the God that Failed: Interview with the Author, Christopher Ferrara

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, On Books
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This interview with Christopher Ferrara, Catholic author and founder of the American Catholic Lawyers Association, was conducted by Dr. John C. Rao, November 11, 2012. JR: Let’s begin, appropriately enough, with your title, [Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama] and the […]

Catholic Politics
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Catholic Politics

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by on Dec 01, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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The cardinal looked grim. “This is the situation now,” he said. “One political party is dangerous and the other is stupid.” Since that was said in a private chat, it wouldn’t be fair for me to name the speaker. But his comment expresses sentiments that probably are widely shared in the American hierarchy today, as […]

Twinkie Killers, Part 2: Long Live the Twinkie!
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Twinkie Killers, Part 2: Long Live the Twinkie!

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by on Nov 30, 2012 in Featured, The Economy
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Can the Twinkie and other famous Hostess brands be saved? I hope so, and I’ll offer my own two cents’ on one possible way of doing so. First, though, I’d like to address two of the criticisms of my previous article—namely, that I confined my comments to the Bakery union and the allegation that I […]

Farewell to Apostate America: Tentative Exit Plan
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Farewell to Apostate America: Tentative Exit Plan

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by on Nov 30, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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For the sequels to this article, follow these links: Farewell to Apostate America, part 2 Poem: Farewell to Apostate America Obama on Secession: Farewell to Apostate America, part 3 Union vs. Constitution: Farewell to Apostate America, part 4 President Obama has already appointed two Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court[1], and he is poised to […]

Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?
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Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?

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by on Nov 29, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, The Economy
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There is a saying of G.K. Chesterton’s about economics that one finds frequently quoted, but often it seems with little attempt to understand what Chesterton meant or might have meant, especially in the context of his entire economic thought. Now most people know that Chesterton was a Distributist, but since there is some confusion in […]

The LBJ Curse on the Black Vote
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The LBJ Curse on the Black Vote

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by on Nov 29, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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Gov. Mitt Romney’s devastating loss to President Barack Obama is producing all sorts of interesting discussion. The analysis shows, again, a clear preference that minorities had for Obama. For example, according to exit polling data at Fox News, President Obama received 93 percent of the black vote. Over the years, the GOP made honest attempts […]

One Thousand Babies
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One Thousand Babies

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by on Nov 28, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Earlier this year, the pro-life community in southeast Russia celebrated a significant milestone.  It was the birth of a baby boy named Denis.  What was so important about little Denis?  He was the 1,000th baby brought into this world through the assistance of the Adopt-a-Birth program in Vladivostok. The Adopt-a-Birth program is the brainchild of […]

On Writing in Dark Times
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On Writing in Dark Times

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by on Nov 28, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, The Social Order
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In a (very) recent episode of the confessional Lutheran podcast “Issues, Etc.,” Matt Harrison, interviewing Allan Carlson, reflected on the meaning of the recent election for social conservatives. I’m sure we’ve all been immersed in this sort of thinking, this past week or so: Harrison said that “while there’s not an inevitability to this, we may […]

The Petraeus Affair in Context
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The Petraeus Affair in Context

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by on Nov 28, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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We’ve all encountered the media spectacle of General Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. In fact I’m sure most of us are quite sick of hearing about it. For me it hearkens back to the days of President Clinton and the 24-7 coverage of that sex scandal. Today, just as then, the media is […]

Restoring the Foundations of Civil Society
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Restoring the Foundations of Civil Society

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by on Nov 28, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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In the wake of President Obama’s decisive reelection, the GOP is engaged in some serious soul-searching.  Pundits on the Right and Left are cautioning Republicans that their party is facing extinction unless some major changes are made.  They maintain it’s evolve or die for the GOP.  The question is, how much can an institution change […]

Blasted Twinkie Killers!
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Blasted Twinkie Killers!

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by on Nov 27, 2012 in Featured, The Economy
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Drat! I’m bummed—saddened by the news that the Hostess company, home of the Twinkie and other venerable sugary snacks, is shutting down. I’ll bet I haven’t eaten more than three or four Twinkies in the last 30 years, so the demise of Hostess doesn’t adversely impact my lifestyle. It’s just that, for baby boomers like […]

Witnessing in the Here and Now
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Witnessing in the Here and Now

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by on Nov 26, 2012 in Catechesis, Featured, The Social Order
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Having offered my initial response to the election of 2012, I promised a more positive column, and that promise is easy to fulfill—Christ is risen, and faith in him is stronger than death. Although I missed living in the 1950’s by a hair’s breadth, that decades’s culture was long celebrated in movies, books, and music. […]

The Strange Case of Savita Halappanavar
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The Strange Case of Savita Halappanavar

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by on Nov 20, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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At this point, the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar is “old” news, in that most people have been at least somewhat aware of of it. Most people in the Catholic and pro-life blogsopheres—to say nothing of the ideologues who oppose us—who will comment on it have already posted their preliminary thoughts. The forces at work […]

Petraeus Scandal: Soap Opera or Serious Business?
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Petraeus Scandal: Soap Opera or Serious Business?

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by on Nov 19, 2012 in Featured, Marriage, The Social Order
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Tune in for the latest episode of As the Military World Turns… In a scandalous story with more twists and turns than the road to Hana, we see a married CIA director who resigned after an affair with his Harvard-educated biographer, discovered because of her harassing emails targeting a doctor’s wife who was the CIA […]

An Inhuman Economic System
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An Inhuman Economic System

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by on Nov 17, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, On the Job, The Economy
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If someone is looking for material for a book with a title like Profiles of an Inhuman Economic System, consider what follows to be a contribution to the cause. It’s about a man I know whom I’ll call Joe. His wife told me his story. Joe is an honest, conscientious guy who, a couple of […]

Roosevelt / Carter / Obama
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Obama: The Second FDR Rather Than the Second Carter

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by on Nov 16, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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I’ve thought a lot over the last few years about an axiom attributed to Mark Twain, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” The question to me was whether the presidency of Barack Obama would “rhyme” with that of Jimmy Carter or Franklin Roosevelt. Given the 2012 election results, FDR might be the more apt […]

Forced Abortion "Off the Table" in Case of Pregnant Disabled Woman
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Forced Abortion “Off the Table” in Case of Pregnant Disabled Woman

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by on Nov 16, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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Judge Egan Walker announced this week that abortion is no longer an option being considered in the case of a pregnant Reno woman with mental disabilities.  Judge Walker had been holding hearings to determine whether to force 32-year-old Elisa Bauer to abort her baby against the wishes of her adoptive parents, Bill and Amy Bauer, […]

America's Depressed Birthrate
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America’s Depressed Birthrate

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by on Nov 15, 2012 in Featured, The Social Order
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Elizabeth Crnkovich also contributed to this article. Americans are having fewer children, and the Obama economy is to blame Want to know how bad the Obama economy really is, especially for young people and minorities? Take a look at our plummeting birthrate, which has been falling for the last four years. A recent report from […]