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A Trifecta of Dishonesty

Dec 3 12 • Louie Verrecchio • 3 comments

In the words of Billy Joel’s 1979 hit ballad, “Honesty,” “Honesty is such a lonely word; everyone is so untrue.” How much more true do those words ring today, some three decades later? To wit, I’d like to touch on three examples of rank dishonesty: one spiritual, one intellectual, and one liturgical. Spiritual Dishonesty In […]

First Week of Advent: From the Incarnation to the Parousia

Dec 3 12 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

Wednesday, November 21. I drove eleven hours through the Megalopolis of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. It was the day before Thanksgiving, the busiest traveling day of the year in the U.S. Was I crazy? Maybe, but a daylong drive through stop-and-go traffic was what I wanted to help prepare for Advent. […]

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

Liberty, the God that Failed: Interview with the Author, Christopher Ferrara

Dec 3 12 • John C. Rao • 0 comments

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 […]

“Gender Identity” Debuts in a UN Resolution

Dec 3 12 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 1 comment

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) rights continue to divide UN member states, but LGBT groups are celebrating a minor victory at the United Nations General Assembly. Last Tuesday the GA adopted the term “gender identity” alongside “sexual orientation” for the first time in one of its resolutions. LGBT rights first gained a normative foothold […]

IVF as Science Fiction

Dec 3 12 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

We can all remember reading predictions that at some point mankind will become immortal. Perhaps we have heard that there are techniques afoot that will eliminate disease and make the human being into something superior to himself, thus redefining us as transhuman. This is not science fiction and it is no longer in the realm […]

Letting God Find You

Dec 3 12 • Cheryl Dickow • 2 comments

Before my feet touched the floor on January 1st, 2012, I offered a simple prayer: Please Lord, before the year is over, find me where you want me to be. Up to that point, I had been suffering from a decades-long chronic condition and although I imagined health in my future, that morning I offered every […]

Poem: “A Diamond or a Coal?”

Dec 3 12 • Christina Rossetti • 0 comments

A Diamond or a Coal? A diamond or a coal? A diamond, if you please: Who cares about a clumsy coal Beneath the summer trees? A diamond or a coal? A coal, sir, if you please: One comes to care about the coal What time the waters freeze. Christina Rossetti

Excerpt: “Inspired: The Case Book of Will Day”

Dec 3 12 • Tim Weldon • 0 comments

An Excerpt from “Inspired: the Case Book of Will Day” Winter Light “Six billion dollars, Mr. Day,” her words took eerie flight throughout the empty gallery. It was a Sunday morning and just before dawn. From the first floor of The Old Harbor Gallery, I stood listening and watching beyond the elegant silhouette […]

Happy New Year!

Dec 2 12 • Marge Fenelon • 1 comment

Today, we celebrate a New Year’s Day in the Catholic Church. Not unlike the secular New Year’s Day we celebrate in the secular world, the First Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the new liturgical year. It also marks our time of longing and anticipation for the coming of the Christ Child on Christmas […]

Catholics Don’t “Believe” Life Begins at Conception

Dec 2 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 11 comments

I don’t know how many times I have heard it. Well-meaning Catholics who say, “As a Catholic, I believe life begins at conception.” I have decided that my mission in life is to correct this miscommunication because it is that very line that lets everyone who is not Catholic dismiss everything we have to say […]

Pope Decrees: Catholic Charities Must Act in Accordance With Catholic Teaching

Dec 2 12 • Hilary White • 1 comment

In a surprise move, Pope Benedict XVI this morning issued a formal legislative document instructing Catholic charitable organisations that they must act in complete compliance with Catholic teaching. The Vatican rumour mill failed to predict the appearance today of the pope’s Motu Proprio, a special letter written and promulgated on Pope Benedict’s personal initiative, that lays out […]

How God Makes Beauty from Barrenness

Dec 1 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 0 comments

The weather was still chilly on the May morning when I found myself pacing in a northern-Wisconsin parking lot, trying to find a sweet spot in the gray sky overhead where my cell phone would work. My mother and I were traveling together, taking a break from visiting my grandmother in her Green Bay nursing […]

Catholic Politics

Dec 1 12 • Russell Shaw • 5 comments

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!

Nov 30 12 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

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 […]

UNFPA’S Dark View

Nov 30 12 • Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. • 0 comments

The new UN Population Fund report is riddled with problems which undercut its call for $8.1B a year for ever more contraception in developing countries. The evidence for this ambitious claim is so thin that it should not be hard for critics to refute it, but here are 11 problems that jumped off the very first pages: 1. The report is based […]

Farewell to Apostate America: Tentative Exit Plan

Nov 30 12 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 46 comments

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 […]

Analyzing the 5% Drop in Abortions in the CDC’s 2009 Abortion Surveillance Report, Part Two

Nov 30 12 • Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D • 0 comments

When abortions drop, for whatever reason, that’s a big deal. Precious unborn lives have been saved and their mothers saved from making a terrible mistake. But figuring out why they may have dropped, even when the exact cause may be unclear, is important too, especially if, like us, you very much want this trend to […]

Theology on the Tea Cups

Nov 30 12 • Nic Davidson • 1 comment

“Forget about man-made religion, man! Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?” It is likely that we’ve all been on at least one side of that question, possibly both. Before leaving Assemblies of God, I was one of the loudest and proudest when it came to purposefully shearing off anything that I decided […]

Gay Marriage Fallout: Will We Become a Nation of Bastards?

Nov 30 12 • Jennifer Thieme • 0 comments

Gay “marriage” hijacks the definition of mother and father and turns these words into the gender neutral “parent” in family law. You may recall that in 2011 the Department of State tried to change children’s passport applications from “mother” and “father” to “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” in a bow to LGBT pressure. Thankfully, conservative outcry was able […]

Poem: “The Canticle”

Nov 30 12 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

The Canticle Far off I hear the singing of a thrush So far, in some far place, the deepest hush, There rises up a clear sweet sound of faith, Foolish one, to sing a note so brief Foolish one, no soul is there to hear Except the simple spirit of the deer, The heartless trees […]

CDC Shows Large Drop in Abortions for 2009, Part One

Nov 29 12 • Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D • 0 comments

Abortion numbers, rates, and ratios for 2009 have been released by the government’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), indicating significantly fewer abortions than found in the previous year’s report. And while the decrease is most welcomed, the abortion industry likes to act as if women no longer died from abortion once it became legal. In […]

Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?

Nov 29 12 • Thomas Storck • 1 comment

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 […]

Disability Treaty Goes to Senate Floor

Nov 29 12 • Lisa Correnti • 0 comments

Senator Reid made a motion yesterday to move the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to executive session. The motion passed allowing debate to follow. Foreign Relations committee chairman Sen. John Kerry followed with an opening statement in which he tried to assure senators that the convention would not grant any new […]

Book Review: A Winter Dream

Nov 29 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Judging from the front cover of A Winter Dream, which features a lit-up Christmas tree, one might expect that this latest offering from best-selling author Richard Paul Evans is a Christmas story. It is not; it is a story for every season. While it does open with a dream that includes a Christmas-type tree, this […]