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Curbing Morning-After Pills to Combat Sex-Selective Abortions

One city in China has introduced a surprising measure to deal with the consequences of the government’s cruel one-child policy. It’s cracking down on the morning-after pill. Bloomberg reports that on December 21, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Fuzhou, the capitol city of Fujian Province, ordered pharmacies to register the names, phone numbers […]

Conjugal Love is Not an Act of the Will

Jan 19 12 • Katie van Schaijik • 15 comments

A couple of years ago, a well-known and highly regarded apologist sent his subscriber list an email article about finding a spouse. He began by explaining that when he was young, he made the mistake of thinking that liking and loving were basically the same thing, with the latter being just a more intense version […]

Catholics, Distributism and Occupy Wall Street

Jan 19 12 • Thomas Storck • 1 comment

Probably no informed Catholic would dispute the fact that the period since the end of the Second Vatican Council in 1965 has been a notably tumultuous period in the life of the Church. Dissent and heresy have flourished and many Catholics have little troubled to base their thought on the doctrine of the Church. Although most people […]

Why Isn’t Abortion “Moral”?

Jan 18 12 • Bill Donohue • 0 comments

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Dana Milbank’s column on abortion in today’s Washington Post: It’s an old tactic—attacking the advocates of both sides of a contentious issue. In doing so, the pundit attempts to seize the mantle of objectivity. But it often doesn’t work, and it certainly didn’t work for Dana Milbank. Milbank […]

Are Gabe Lyons’ <em>The Next Christians</em> Really What’s Next? Part 2

Are Gabe Lyons’ The Next Christians Really What’s Next? Part 2

Jan 18 12 • Mark Gonnella • 0 comments

Gabe Lyons has constructed a new vision for Christians, a vision that is sustained by the desire to restore God’s Kingdom on earth. However, as we have seen, his vision is not a complete vision, but rather it is a half-vision inflated and masquerading as a whole one. It is as if a man took a […]

Book Review: The Pope Who Quit

Jan 18 12 • Kevin Vost • 0 comments

The medieval times of 13th century Christendom present a world so different from our own, jam-packed with unique and intriguing characters whose stories are so little known, yet so well worth knowing. I’d recently written a biography of a man from that time called “great” in his own day, Albert the Great, a man who […]

2012: A Year to Say Yes to God’s Plan for Our Lives

Jan 18 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. (Psalm 33:1) For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. When you call me, and come and pray […]

The Beginning of Wisdom

Jan 18 12 • Philip Primeau • 6 comments

An old adage tells us that theology is the queen of the sciences, philosophy her handmaid. This means not simply that heavenly wisdom is nobler or more edifying than earthly knowledge. It speaks also of the epistemological importance of the theistic conviction: objective reality depends upon the existence of the Supreme Subject. Philosophy, in the […]

Clash of Competing “Rights” Claims Raises Free Speech Concerns

Jan 18 12 • Piero A. Tozzi, J.D. • 1 comment

Tension between free speech advocacy and efforts to curb “hate speech” has arisen over the past year as the result of recent initiatives at the United Nations (UN) and by the Obama administration. Freedom of opinion and expression have long been recognized as fundamental, and a recent UN Human Rights Committee “General Comment” affirmed these […]

Registered Trademark and Then You Die

Jan 18 12 • Kevin O'Brien • 0 comments

I hate people, and it turns out that might be a registered trademark. Let me explain. My daughter Kerry talked us into driving down to Lafayette Square [one] Sunday [last month] to get brunch. Lafayette Square is a trendy St. Louis neighborhood where rehabbers live, surrounded by the ghetto on four sides. But once a year all […]

Newfangled Nonsense

Jan 18 12 • Barb Lishko • 0 comments

I am attempting to stay up-to-date with the latest advances in bathroom technology, but every time I use the ladies room it is a whole new learning curve. What do I mean exactly? Some places have automatic faucets that turn on when your hands line up within the precise perimeters and a warm spray douses […]

Spanish Pro-Lifers With New Ideas

Jan 18 12 • Carlos Beltramo • 0 comments

Political systems and popular representation are changing. Movements like the Spanish 15-M, or the American Tea Party are spontaneous movements which indicate that democracy — while a good system of government — is currently in crisis. What this means is that there are some citizens whose voices are not being heard — so they have […]

Poem: “In His Place I”

Jan 18 12 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 0 comments

In His Place I “Ecce Homo!” Pilate pronounced As thunder pealed across the murky sky. While standing still upon the steps I heard the crowd and their chaotic cry Let him die! Let him die! Take him away to crucify! My body was torn by centurions Who flogged my flesh with their violent swing, But […]

From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land

Jan 17 12 • Kevin Ford • 0 comments

A little more than a year ago, I quit my job as a theology teacher at a Catholic high school to become a full-time organic farmer. I like to call myself a “Catholic farmer”, because I am striving to live out the Church’s teachings on marriage and the family, as well as Catholic social teaching, […]

When Life is Alienable

Jan 17 12 • Stacy Trasancos • 0 comments

It’s like peeling up the edge of tape. The instant a society places more value on some human lives than others, it’s only a matter of time until that edge has been picked, pried and yanked enough to leave unsuspecting people grieving and wondering what happened to their right to life, liberty and the pursuit […]

Ending the Palestinian “Right of Return”

Jan 17 12 • Daniel Pipes • 0 comments

Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo Accords offered a little-noted family-reunification provision that turned this trickle into a river: 137,000 residents […]

Get a Good Night’s Sleep: Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry

Jan 17 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 2 comments

St. Padre Pio is known to have said, “Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry.” Like most axioms, this one is easy to say and not so easy to put into practice. Yet, it is definitely worth the effort. Especially among women, anxiety is impacting every aspect of our lives, even our ability to sleep. The New […]

Justice, Fairness, and Taxation, Part 4

Jan 17 12 • David W. Cooney • 0 comments

I would like to wrap up this series with an examination of a few more types of taxation. Keep in mind, that this series is not intended to be exhaustive. It is intended to open the door to discussion by presenting ideas for consideration. (See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) I do not pretend […]

In But Not Of: The Christian and the World

Jan 17 12 • Bishop Robert C. Evans • 0 comments

The recent decision by a federal judge relative to a prayer banner in Cranston High School West has generated, as the saying goes, more heat than light. On the one hand, people’s sensibilities are offended that a revered object that has been in place for decades now has to be removed due to one person’s […]

Common Objections to Homeschooling: What About High School?

Jan 17 12 • Melody Lyons • 4 comments

As my son enters the final lap of his grade school career, I’ve noticed a marked increase in anxiety. An increase in my own anxiety, of course, but also in those who remain unconvinced that homeschooling for high school is a healthy option for my son. I don’t mind discussing the pros and cons of […]

New Drug for Depression Likely Developed with Cells from Aborted Fetus

Jan 16 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 0 comments

I have suffered from depression my whole adult life. Symptoms of depression and anxiety run in my family. So any story about new treatments for depression always catch my eye. But this one caught my eye for another reason. One of the indications of depression is a reduced hippocampus, a part of the brain that […]

Today’s Struggle for Human Rights

Jan 16 12 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

In America, today commemorates the life of the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was one of those moral giants God raised up to guide a nation toward a new stage in its collective moral development. Like Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, and others, he played a pivotal role in opening […]

Justice, Fairness, and Taxation, Part 3

Jan 16 12 • David W. Cooney • 0 comments

In Part 1 and Part 2, I mainly discussed the different schools of Capitalist thought (Keynesian and non-Keynesian) and how Distributism differs from them in regard to the role of government in stabilizing the economy and the use of taxation in doing so. Before I begin discussing the different methods of taxation, I should also […]

Tech Tools to Help Your Body and Soul Goals

Jan 16 12 • Lisa Hendey • 0 comments

As we turn the page on another new calendar year, many of us have the desired goal of “getting in shape” for the New Year. This is definitely the case in my own life, but the more I ponder my motivations, the more I find that I’m not simply looking for physical changes in my […]