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The Cross is the Key to Eternal Life

Feb 17 12 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 1 comment

Action! Saint James tells us that we must demonstrate our faith with actions. As Catholics, that means taking up our crosses and following the Lord. “Faith of itself, without works, is dead,” James says (2:17). His teaching comes directly from the Lord. At Mass word and deed connect. The Scriptures offer the affirmation that […]

Jesus Speaks to Little Children

Feb 17 12 • Parenting is Funny • 0 comments

When my daughter was about four, I was telling her that while we were in church everyone needs to be extra quiet. When we are, Jesus can talk to us in our hearts. And if we are quiet, we can hear Him. She said, “Okay, Mommy,” and about a minute later she said, “Oh Mommy, I hear him.” […]

Obama Administration to Court: “Please Look the Other Way”

Feb 17 12 • The Becket Fund • 0 comments

No attempt to defend the constitutionality of the mandate On Thursday, the Obama administration filed its first legal response to Belmont Abbey College’s lawsuit challenging the controversial contraception mandate. This was its first opportunity to explain to the court and the country why the mandate is not illegal and unconstitutional. So what did the administration […]

Controlling Human Genetic Engineering Before it Controls Us

Feb 17 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 0 comments

We do have the ability to control human genetic engineering without it controlling us. To do that we must draw a line in the sand between morally laudable therapy and human altering enhancement. My previous article, What is the Catholic View on Genetic Engineering, was all about the distinction between gene therapy and genetic enhancement. Now, […]

Obama’s Catholic Church Gambit: Lessons from American Communists

Feb 17 12 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 6 comments

A fascinating theory has been advanced by Dick Morris, which, in turn, is being considered by Rush Limbaugh and other leading conservatives. Morris speculates that the Obama HHS mandate on contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients is a fight with the Catholic Church that Team Obama wants — and with the focus based narrowly on contraception, not […]

Supreme Court Filing: Obamacare Compels Individuals to Pay for Abortion Coverage

Feb 17 12 • Bioethics Defense Fund • 0 comments

The individual mandate not only forces individuals into private purchases, it also effectively mandates personal payments for surgical abortion coverage without exemption for individual’s religious or moral objections. This is the argument presented by seven medical organizations in an amicus brief filed Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court by lead counsel Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), […]

What if There Were no Working Moms?

Feb 17 12 • Julie Filby • 2 comments

Before you say it, I agree: there’s no such thing as a mom that doesn’t work. I’m all for moms that work, stay home, and those somewhere in between. —JDF A few weeks ago, an article “Motherhood and the Call to Holiness” seemed to pop up on every website, blog and feed I visited. Here, […]

Pres. Obama, the Right Not to Do Wrong, and Politics of Ruse and Delay

Feb 17 12 • Matthew J. Franck • 0 comments

No one can be rightly coerced by the state to be directly complicit in the commission of a wrong. This goes for any businessman, employer, insurance company, or individual, regardless of faith. After three weeks of outcry from religious leaders regarding its Health and Human Services contraception insurance mandate, the Obama administration announced a “compromise” […]

Narcissus and Contraception’s Curse

Feb 17 12 • Brian Killian • 0 comments

The myth of Narcissus is very suggestive for our day. There are many variations to the story, but they all end the same way. Narcissus is cursed to forever experience the pain of unrequited love. That happens to be our own curse, too. But first, here’s how it happened to Narcissus. Narcissus was a handsome […]

Hollow Compromise on Contraception Mandate

Feb 17 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 0 comments

Give Barack Obama credit: The man has chutzpah. How else do you describe a president who uses his executive authority to unilaterally manufacture a government mandate for contraception coverage — a mandate with no conscience protection for the vast majority of religious institutions to which it applies — and then, when confronted with bipartisan backlash, […]

Congress Holds Hearing on Human Rights Abuses in China as China’s VP Visits WH

Feb 16 12 • Lisa Correnti • 0 comments

This Tuesday Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) chairman of the U.S. China Commission presided at a hearing entitled “The Case and Treatment of Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng” with Co-Chairman U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D–OH). At the same time China’s Vice President Xi Jinping (in line to assume the presidency in March 2013) was meeting with President Obama and Vice […]

Obama’s Anti-Religious Implosion

Feb 16 12 • J. Matt Barber • 5 comments

Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews – Democrat, Republican and independent alike. He has thrown down a radical feminist gauntlet and dared the Church to pick it up. They’ve picked it up. From running […]

Freedom of the Church Impaired at the European Court of Human Rights

Feb 16 12 • Grégor Puppinck, Ph.D • 1 comment

On January 31st 2012, the third section of the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the case of Sindicatul Pastorul cel bun c. Roumanie (no. 2330/09) whereby it determined that the refusal to register a trade union established within the Orthodox Church was contrary to freedom of association guaranteed by Article 11 […]

<em>Frack Nation</em> Digs Up the Not-So-Scary Truth

Frack Nation Digs Up the Not-So-Scary Truth

Feb 16 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 0 comments

When it comes to 21st-century environmental and energy debates, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Especially when what little knowledge you may have is incorrect. And most especially when could be a lie. That’s the conclusion of documentary filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, who are on a quest to shed some light – […]

What If We Removed Wartime Conscience Exemptions?

Feb 16 12 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

Last Friday, President Obama responded to Catholic bishops’ concerns over his controversial mandate compelling Catholic institutions to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing pharmaceuticals. Many media sources reported Obama’s action as an “accommodation,” with some describing it as a “reversal.” It is hardly that. Many Catholics find it arguably worse. Without dissecting the president’s action, the […]

Young Women Exploited by Fertility Industry

Feb 16 12 • Denise J. Hunnell, M.D • 0 comments

Why Is Selling Eggs an Exception to Law? Catholic teaching is consistent and clear. The sale of human organs and tissues is immoral because it demeans human dignity and regards the human person as a commodity. John Paul II addressed the subject in a speech to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society in […]

Obama and Sebelius Sittin’ in a Tree…

Feb 16 12 • Mary Kochan • 4 comments

Obama and Sebelius sittin’ in a tree K-i-s-s-i-n-g First comes sex without marriages Then come empty baby carriages The teasing little rhyming ditty familiar to children for generations, of which the above is a parody, bespeaks that even children know something very fundamental about the natural and right order of things – that first comes […]

Bringing Souls to Jesus through the Four Men Prayer Groups

Feb 16 12 • Dr. Brian Kiczek • 0 comments

I would like to introduce you to an exciting new men’s prayer group based on the Gospel of Mark’s story of Four Men who brought their paralyzed friend to Jesus for healing. Through their faith they obtained their friends’ healing and the even greater miracle of the forgiveness of his sins. Members of this prayer […]

Revised Mandate “Unacceptable” to Over 300 Academics and Religious Leaders

Feb 16 12 • The Becket Fund • 0 comments

In response to President Obama’s announcement of a government compromise over the new controversial mandate requiring employers to pay for abortion-causing drugs and other services, over 300 academics have signed a statement entitled: “Unacceptable.” “This is a grave violation of religious freedom and cannot stand,” state the scholars. “It is an insult to the intelligence […]

Poem: “In His Place IV”

Feb 16 12 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 0 comments

In His Place IV Nameless faces surrounding me; All but one, that one I see. Mother, must you glimpse me now With mangled flesh and splintered brow? I cannot bear your presence here; Not you, O Woman, my mother dear. But you have come for me, you say; To inspire me in this disarray. “Fear […]

Dying Time Can Be Good Time

Feb 15 12 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is an advisory body to the European Union. Based in Strasbourg, France, PACE has more than three hundred delegates. Their pronouncements of human rights issues are highly influential within the E.U. Last month, PACE passed a resolution (No. 1859) that made a strong statement against euthanasia. […]

History Lessons — Embarrassing yet Valuable

Feb 15 12 • Louie Verrecchio • 0 comments

When asked to comment on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ rejection of the so-called HHS “accommodation,” White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said, “I would simply note with regard to the bishops that they never supported healthcare reform to begin with.” Apparently, either Mr. Carney’s memory is failing or his trousers are ablaze. […]

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

Religious Liberty or Government Tolerance?

Feb 15 12 • Ray Nothstine • 0 comments

Al Mohler absolutely dismantles Nicholas Kristof in this new piece. The cause of this skewering? Kristof’s “Beyond Pelvic Politics” column in The New York Times. Mohler notes, After asking his most pressing question, “After all, do we really want to make accommodations across the range of faith?,” he makes this amazing statement: “The basic principle of American life is that we […]

Strategic Abdication

Feb 15 12 • Dr. Earl Tilford • 0 comments

From Damascus to Tehran, a test for world leadership is underway. Daily, the Syrian military—well-armed, highly trained thugs whose current mission is to keep dictator Bashar Assad in power—kills up to 200 or more of its own citizens. Protests from Washington, the withdrawal of the U.S. ambassador, and an effort to condemn Syria in the […]