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Judge’s Ruling Puts Polygamy on the Way to Legal Recognition

A federal judge may have put polygamy on its first step to legal recognition, striking down part of a Utah law that criminalized plural marriage. The lawsuit was brought by Kody Brown, star of the TLC reality series Sister Wives. Brown lives with Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn, and their brood of 17 children. However, […]

The Elderly Who Are Isolated and Abandoned

Dec 19 13 • Terry McDermott • 0 comments

As I walked through the lobby of the assisted living facility, I saw him again – the elderly gentleman whom I had greeted three hours earlier. Had he been there all morning? I wondered. I was on patient rounds in the building that day, visiting the residents that staff had identified as needing to be […]

Republicans v. Conservatives

Dec 18 13 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

Given the magnitude of the Obamacare debacle, it’s hard to imagine how Republicans could manage to one-up the dysfunction and dissolution of the Democrat party. Much to the delight of the media, however, the GOP has managed to redirect the spotlight away from the train wreck of the Affordable Care Act in exchange for its […]

Heroes in the Season of Hope

Dec 18 13 • Fr. Shenan J. Boquet • 0 comments

This Sunday, Gaudete Sunday, we light the third candle of the Advent wreath. The rose-colored candle and the priests’ rose vestments mark a change in the tenor of this penitential season. For those who have been using Advent as a time to prepare heart and home for the celebration of Christ’s birth, it is a […]

Alcohol, Patriotism, and the NFL: The Best Hope for Tailgaters

Dec 18 13 • Lee Wishing • 0 comments

Was there more underlying this unsettling culture?

Tabb’s Poetry XLVII

Dec 18 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel

Pope Francis: Espousing a Peronist or Marxist Liberation Theology?

Dec 17 13 • Alejandro A. Chafuen • 3 comments

The role of the laity will be crucial.

Malta: Europe’s ‘Last Man Standing’ Against Abortion

Dec 17 13 • Ben Johnson • 0 comments

With Ireland having passed its law allowing abortion, without gestational age limits, in cases where a woman threatens suicide, the tiny island nation of Malta has become the European Union’s last man standing against abortion. Malta’s MEPs were among a small bloc at the EU who worked against the recent failed proposal by socialists and […]

Stealing Christ’s Job

Dec 17 13 • Melanie Jean Juneau • 0 comments

In the Old Testament, the Azazel goat, translated as scapegoat, was one of two goats chosen for a ceremony on The Day of Atonement. The first goat was sacrifice but a priest would lay hands on the second goat and symbolically transfer all the sin and guilt of the community on to this animal. The […]

Keeping Christ in Christmas – Our Family’s Approach

Dec 17 13 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

“Actions speak louder than words.” “One picture is worth a thousand words.” “Talk is cheap.” There are lots of different sayings in the English language that generally express the same thing–words alone don’t do the necessary job of communicating, especially in the case of a personal message. Like “I love you,” for instance. So human […]

When I Will Concern Myself with the Roman Curia

Dec 16 13 • Mary Kochan • 29 comments

Who’s in? Who’s out? Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s headed up or headed down? Whose influence is waxing or waning? Ah, Rome. The Eternal City of intrigue. Ah, Vaticanistas. Of making many speculations there is no end. I will concern myself with the goings on of the Roman Curia when: All the dust is gone […]

Detail from Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Worship, Saturday Evening Post, February 27, 1943

Liberty of Conscience in the Public Square: Challenges to the Affordable Care Act

Dec 16 13 • L. John Van Til • 0 comments

Congress and the states shall not create state-sponsored churches.

Snippets From an Exhortation: The Anti-Modernism of Pope Francis

Dec 16 13 • John Médaille • 4 comments

The narrative that has been played out since the election of Jorge Bergoglio is one of a Pope ready to overturn all the doctrines of the Church , ordain women priests, change the teaching on marriage and homosexuality, and generally turn the Catholic Church into a minor caucus within the Democratic Party. This narrative was […]

Mt. Sinai, Egypt, Camel in Snow, 13 December 2013

Remember Global Warming

Dec 16 13 • E. L. Core • 19 comments

And Greens are getting rich.

Wrong-Headed Ethics and Mayhem

Dec 16 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Last year, the Journal of Medical Ethics published an article entitled “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” Central to the paper’s thesis is the position that “the moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus, that is, neither can be considered a ‘person’ in a morally relevant sense.” The paper further poses the preposterous […]

Mary: More Than Just a Character in a Story

Dec 16 13 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

I regularly receive an email called “Daily Heartlight.” It features reflections by a rotating group of people, all of them Protestant and most of them preachers. Most of my spiritual reading is Catholic, but I find these often have good insight about faith and Scripture. As we’re approaching Christmas, several reflections have involved Mary and […]

Poem: “The Scent of the Run”

Dec 16 13 • Stacy Peterson • 1 comment

The Scent of the Run A silent afternoon, but for my pounding feet And the beat inside my headset which Inspires me down the road. Horses nod their heads, and whinny, As I run by the field Where they graze in a freedom, That I attempt to mimic. I leap across a log, fallen long […]

LGBTs Push Agenda at UN on Human Rights Day

Dec 16 13 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 0 comments

On Human Rights Day, famous athletes and UN officials met at UN headquarters to condemn what they consider to be discrimination against homosexuals. Russia took the brunt of the criticism ahead of the Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi next February. It is the first of several countries that have enacted a law to […]

Treating People Like Objects

Dec 16 13 • Anthony Buono • 1 comment

Be careful who you leave behind. You just might have turned your back on love and happiness. I figured I would start with the bottom line. Dating should be about beginning your commitment to marriage when a suitable partner comes along. But sadly, dating today seems to be about perpetually waiting for “the right one,” […]

Constitutional Convention? Planning Meeting Held at Mt. Vernon

Dec 16 13 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 4 comments

“The train that is the Mount Vernon Assembly has left the station, with no turning back.” So writes Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator. At the first session of the Assembly, held earlier this month at George Washington’s home in Virginia, nearly 100 state legislators met to begin the planning process on behalf of an […]

The Advent of Virtue: Week Three

Dec 15 13 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

Rejoice! (Gaudete!) We’re already halfway through the season of Advent. If you missed Weeks One and Two, or if you would like to reread them, they can be found here and here. This week, we match the cardinal virtue of temperance to our Advent journey. THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT (December 15-21): TEMPERANCE The Apostle James exhorts us in […]

Christmas Classics from a Father-Daughter Duo

Dec 14 13 • Devin Rose • 0 comments

Just down the Texas highways from me live Kevin McCormick and his daughter Rachel. A mutual friend introduced us, and I learned that Kevin and Rachel has just completed a Christmas album full of classic hymns and songs. The result is an endlessly listenable arrangement of beautiful Christmas favorites: “The First Noel” to “Silent Night” […]

My Son’s Discernment and His Call for Confession

Dec 13 13 • Marlon De La Torre • 1 comment

The art of daily discernment is a practice and a virtue that many of us tend to forget and at times ignore. By definition the act of discernment from the Latin meaning discernere means one’s ability to distinguish what is happening around them whether positive or negative and to move toward a sound resolution of […]

Belgian Senate Passes Bill Permitting Doctors to Euthanize Children

Dec 13 13 • John-Henry Westen • 0 comments

In 50-17 vote yesterday, the Belgian Senate approved a bill that would allow euthanasia for children. The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for final approval before being sent to the King to be signed into law. Most political observers are predicting the passage of the bill. Currently the law in Belgium allows […]

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