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Sorry, Mr. Vice President, That Is Not a “Fact”

Oct 17 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 1 comment

For me, the most jaw-dropping moment of the vice presidential debate came when Vice President Joe Biden asserted that Obamacare’s contraception mandate simply did not exist. Said the VP: “With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution — Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, […]

Economic Issues, Not Abortion, Worry Women Most

Oct 17 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 3 comments

If it weren’t so obvious, it might be ironic. On Monday, a USA Today/Gallup poll among likely voters in the top 12 battleground states revealed a startling demographic shift: Women are moving toward Republican Mitt Romney, thanks in large measure to the candidates’ respective performances in the first presidential debate earlier this month in Denver. […]

Vice-President Joe Biden vs. Rep. Paul Ryan

Joe Biden Makes History

Oct 16 12 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

Joe Biden’s antics against Paul Ryan have taken a few days to sink in, and should take longer still. For starters, try to imagine being Paul Ryan last Thursday [Oct. 11th]: a young politician in the hot seat, the eyes of the world pressing upon him, as he tries to make succinct statements in a […]

Is God a Cardinals Fan?

Oct 16 12 • G. Tracy Mehan, III • 0 comments

Screaming erupted in our family room this past Friday as the St. Louis Cardinals came up with four runs in the ninth inning to derail the estimable Washington Nationals in the early morning hours not long after midnight. They managed to resurrect themselves from a 6-0 deficit from the early innings, thereby duplicating their performance […]

Womanly Wisdom

Oct 16 12 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 3 comments

For the past few months, the image followed me. At work, I shuddered as I came across it in one of our study workbooks. This week again at a TOB seminar, there it was in its full, blazing glory: Caravaggio’s depiction of “Doubting Thomas” sticking his probing finger into the glorified wound of the Risen […]

The Road to Rome, Part V: Why Not Restorationism?

Oct 15 12 • Jason Liske • 3 comments

This is the fourth of six articles relating the writer’s journey into the bosom of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. Having succumbed to spiritual desolation following the rejection of his Adventist heritage, the young seeker investigates various Christian traditions, hoping to discover the Truth. Part I may be found here; Part II here; Part III ; […]

Forgiveness: Sand and Stone

Oct 15 12 • Cheryl Dickow • 1 comment

Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who had been slapped was hurt but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: Today my best friend slapped me in the face. They kept on […]

Poem: “Washington”

Oct 15 12 • Julia Serpe • 0 comments

Washington On the 22nd of February In 1732 The father of our life was born With traits that were noble and true He would not say an unkind word Or treat a creature cruel He loved the simple things of life And cherished the “golden rule.” And though the years have passed and gone His […]

President Obama and the ‘Intelligence Brief’ Scandal

Oct 13 12 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 3 comments

The last few weeks have produced many intriguing political moments, but none as shocking as the revelation that President Obama has been absent from the vast majority of his daily intelligence briefings. According to a study by the Government Accountability Institute, Obama failed to attend a single Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) in the week leading up […]

Quis ut Deus? A Reminder on the Place of Politics

Oct 13 12 • Kevin Symonds • 4 comments

While following political developments, I became nonplussed but could not name why. As I was puzzling-out my thoughts, I unexpectedly received assistance from the Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. I would like to share my observations and reflect for a moment on the place of politics in society. Sheen said the following back […]

Answering Pro-Life Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research

Oct 13 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 1 comment

There has been a lot of talk about Dr. Yamanaka and his work on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) since he won the Nobel Prize earlier this week. There have even been some rumblings that pro-lifers should not be so happy about iPSCs since they are not “100% pro-life.” Before I list the objections that […]

Are We Getting Married Too Soon?

Oct 13 12 • Anthony Buono • 1 comment

Dear Anthony, My pastor is skeptical that long distance relationships can have the personal and practical growth to move toward marriage. My fiance lives in California, and I’m in Canada. He first wrote me on AMS nine months ago. We met the first time two months ago. A month ago I flew to California for […]

Infertility and Selective Abortion: Steering a Course Between Scylla and Charybdis

Oct 12 12 • Ken Connor • 1 comment

A lot of people, conservatives in particular, tend to idealize the past. We like to wax lyrical about simpler times, the “good old days.” Of course, if we are honest we have to admit that those good old days weren’t always so great. The passage of time and progress of society have brought many blessings […]

Beware the Benign

Oct 12 12 • Genevieve Kineke • 6 comments

Most of the country has heard of the decision by one public school system in Rhode Island to amend its policy towards “gendered” activities for its students. Cranston hosts the typical middle school events — father-daughter dances and mother-son sports outings — which facilitate family and community bonding. Such light-hearted group activities provide memories and […]

The Catechism Saved my Soul

Oct 12 12 • Marlon De La Torre • 2 comments

“About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of God’s Word. You need milk, not solid food; for everyone who lives on milk is […]

Prayer Can Move Mountains – Or Churches

Oct 12 12 • Jason Shanks • 0 comments

When my wife and I were dating, she would travel quite a bit as a part of her job. On one occasion, we had a conversation about whether she would be able to attend Mass on Ash Wednesday during her travels. She explained that where they stayed in the city she was going to, there […]

Poem: “1927”

Oct 12 12 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

1927 Revolution virgin-pure Covered now in filthy sores, I wonder what he’d think of this: The paradox of class and war Between the lowly and the state – No servant of the Comintern Foretold which class the Party ate: I knew him at one hundred one Channeled Chinese generals For the International, Tangled with the […]

Saints are Back in Style

Oct 12 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 0 comments

This month is a momentous one for saints in the Catholic Church. After naming two new doctors of the church this past Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize seven new saints on Oct. 21. Among them are Marianne Cope, a Franciscan sister who founded hospitals in New York before nursing lepers in Hawaii, and Kateri […]

Fiftieth Anniversary of Vatican II

Oct 11 12 • E. L. Core • 1 comment

Today begins the Year of Faith 2012-2013, on the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the 50th anniversary (“quinquagenary”) of the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. In Gaudet Mater Ecclesia, his address on the first day of the Council, Bl. John XXIII proclaimed the heart of […]

John XXIII: Saint in the Age of Television

Oct 11 12 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 1 comment

In 1958, a congenial old man, Angelo Roncalli, was elected to the chair of Peter. He was to be a caretaker pope, someone to keep the ship steady while the cardinals identified a more long-term leader. That smiling old man soon stunned the world by calling the first ecumenical council in nearly a hundred years. […]

The Battle Is Not Over the How

Oct 11 12 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

In a recent article in The National Catholic Reporter Michael Sean Winters criticized vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan for failing to present a plan to help the poor, and purported to criticize Vice President Joe Biden for not presenting a way to protect the unborn. I found the usual obfuscation of Catholic moral teaching that […]

Fungible Human Rights for Negotiable Human Beings

Oct 11 12 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Sometimes I wonder if anyone really thinks through what it means to be a human being anymore. There are so many signals being transmitted hither and yon these days that it makes the mind spin—and very few of these signals are grounded in natural law or even common sense. For example, I read a headline asking, “Is […]

America and Ancient Rome: Comparisons

Oct 11 12 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 3 comments

History offers insightful comparisons and contrasts between past and present. A generation or so before the birth of Christ, Rome lost her republic to political and cultural decadence. Although reformers emerged in the political and literary spheres, their efforts failed and ancient democracy faded into oblivion. Whereas in America, the game is not quite up. […]

Let Who Plan My Family?

Oct 11 12 • Anabelle Hazard, Esq. • 2 comments

Four was our magic number. Before my husband and I got married, we’d both agreed we wanted four children, and since gender couldn’t be planned, we didn’t care what kind we’d have. For the first two years of our marriage, I was busy preparing for the bar exam so we’d held off on kids until […]