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The Abortion Fight Cannot Rest

October, the month of the rosary and the Pro-life Rosary Campaign, is over. Forty Days for Life has just ended. Things will quiet down until January with the various state marches and the National March for Life. There will be various prayer vigils before the march. In the spring there will be a new Forty […]

‘Glee’ Displays Gay Teen Sex in Prime-time

Nov 9 11 • Thaddeus Baklinski • 2 comments

This week’s episode of Fox Television’s prime-time musical comedy show Glee featured two teenage couples, one heterosexual and one homosexual, engaging in sex for the first time. Titled “The First Time,” the episode depicted two couples – a young man and woman, Finn and Rachel, and two young men, Kurt and Blaine – each losing […]

Is Conservatism Incoherent? (Or, Pogo Was Right)

Nov 9 11 • John Médaille • 1 comment

The question posed in the title might itself be somewhat problematic, since “conservatism” is not one thing, but a rich and often contentious variety of positions. Nevertheless, a sufficiently large portion of conservatism marries a social and religious traditionalism with a more or less pure capitalism. But is this a suitable marriage? For what we […]

<em>KC Star</em> Omits Story on Top Episcopal Bishop

KC Star Omits Story on Top Episcopal Bishop

Nov 9 11 • Bill Donohue • 0 comments

[On Monday], the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held a press conference in front of the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to bring attention to a case involving an Episcopal priest, Bede Parry, who is being charged with molesting young boys while he was […]

Why Does the Crucifix “Provoke” Muslims?

Nov 9 11 • Raymond Ibrahim • 2 comments

For a religion that is perpetually “misunderstood,” the consistency of Islam is remarkable. Consider how ostensibly diverse issues—complaints of “human rights” abuses at an American university and murder in an Egyptian classroom—are interconnected. First, the American story. According to Fox News: The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that […]

Poem: “Chance”

Nov 9 11 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 0 comments

Chance I’ve heard some men of a wiser lot Assert the premise that all was naught; That man and woman, bird and beast Were plucked by chance, and by chance deceased. That life is chance, and a chance but one, So live it up before you’re done. But might I chance to question them, Haven’t […]

Knowing God is for Us as Catholic Men

Nov 8 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is […]

Friendless in the Middle East

Nov 8 11 • Daniel Pipes • 1 comment

The Arab upheavals of 2011 have inspired wildly inconsistent Western responses. How, for example, can one justify abiding the suppression of dissidents in Bahrain while celebrating dissidents in Egypt? Or protect Libyan rebels from government attacks but not their Syrian counterparts? Oppose Islamists taking over in Yemen but not in Tunisia? Such ad hockery reflects […]

The Humble God

Nov 8 11 • Philip Primeau • 3 comments

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth (Isaiah 53:7). Perhaps the most stunning revelation of Christianity is the deep humility of God. In Jesus of […]

Daily Mass: Medicine for a Sick Culture

Nov 8 11 • Mary Anne Moresco • 1 comment

Rosie grabbed my arm as I walked into Mass one weekday morning. Whispering in a hushed tone she asked: “Can you help me measure the candle? I can’t reach the top of it to measure it. I was helping to set up for a funeral, and I dropped the candle and broke the glass that […]

$The Myth of Homeschooling$

The Myth of Homeschooling

Nov 8 11 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 2 comments

The other day, I was half-jokingly trying to talk my friends into doing a reality show about homeschooling moms. Unfortunately, they weren’t buying the idea. As one put it, “I’d much rather have people believe the myth.” The Sept/Oct 2011 issue of the HSLDA Home School Court Report features an article by Michael O. Farris […]

Ten Good Reasons to Get Excited About the New (Revised, that is) Mass

Nov 8 11 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 4 comments

It’s almost here! The new Mass — from the revised Roman Missal — is coming November 27, so we should not just get prepared but excited too. I do admit, however, that I have a preference to stick with what I already know. For instance, every new computer program and most of the technology in my world, […]

Here We Go Again

Nov 8 11 • Karen J Rinehart • 1 comment

Why do I act shocked every time the stores pull out the Christmas merchandise before I’ve purchased Halloween candy (which has been sharing shelf space with the Back to School supplies since August)? Why do I let it gross me out year after year? I know it’s going to happen. But still…. I wandered into […]

Win One of Five Copies of the <em>Little Angels</em> DVDs by Roma Downey

Win One of Five Copies of the Little Angels DVDs by Roma Downey

Nov 8 11 • Peggy Bowes • 13 comments

Beautiful Irish Catholic actress and mother Roma Downey has produced a new series of DVDs for children called Little Angels. I recently interviewed Roma about the new series, her favorite charity and her devotion to the Blessed Mother. To celebrate the release of Little Angels, Grace Hill Media, a company that promotes quality entertainment for faith-based […]

Poem: “Adoration”

Nov 8 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Adoration A mass of people on a plain All those who live and ever lived Face the everlasting A plain of such immense extent That souls from the beginning to the end Will not fill it all Around them and behind them Refulgence of the everlasting Fills eternity We who faced the light-creating sun The […]

Is Agrarianism Just for Hippies?

Nov 7 11 • James Curley • 0 comments

Ever since the industrial revolution and the mass migration of Americans from rural areas to cities, there have been periodic fledgling back-to-the-land movements. Each of these trends was a reaction to the low wages and exploitation of factory workers. Nostalgia for “simpler times” and the desire for more self-determination inspired many to move back to […]

Planned Parenthood Proves that Death and Lies Go Together

Nov 7 11 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Incredible as it seems, there is more gore spewing from Planned Parenthood’s inner sanctum each passing day. Let’s begin in Kansas where documentation is destroyed and late-term abortionists are held in the highest esteem. It seems that all of the records required by law to ensure that Planned Parenthood was complying with the law, regarding […]

On Thanksgiving: Eat. Pray. Love. Do Not Watch Lady Gaga.

Nov 7 11 • Kathy Schiffer • 3 comments

ABC has just announced that on Thanksgiving Day, as Americans sit back to digest the turkey and stuffing, the network will air a 90-minute prime-time special “A Very Gaga Thanksgiving.” Call me a cynic, but I’m thinking this won’t be your typical “Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” kind of show. Hopefully, the pop star won’t be wearing […]

Personhood Begins when Life Begins

Nov 7 11 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 4 comments

Most news reports about Mississippi’s proposed “personhood amendment” have cast the measure’s pro-life sponsors as the aggressors in a brand-new phase of the abortion wars, one in which abortion opponents rely on clever linguistic tricks to launch an unprecedented attack on abortion rights. That storyline omits one important fact: Abortion-rights advocates are the ones who […]

The New Roman Missal: “And with Your Spirit”

Nov 7 11 • Dr. Edward Sri • 0 comments

Catholics are very familiar with the parts of the Mass—perhaps too familiar. Sunday after Sunday, we recite certain words such as, “Amen…Thanks be to God…Alleluia…Holy, Holy, Holy Lord….” These words are so ingrained that we often say them robotically, out of simple routine. Indeed, if someone poked us in the middle of the night and […]

Media calls Cain’s Comments on Planned Parenthood Racist Roots a Lie

Nov 7 11 • Kathleen Gilbert • 0 comments

Several mainstream media “fact checkers” piled on to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain after the latter reaffirmed his statements condemning Planned Parenthood’s eugenic roots. They downplayed founder Margaret Sanger’s eugenicist philosophy and accused Cain of a “pants on fire” lie. In what became one of the highest-profile attacks on the group’s eugenic history in recent […]

<em>Little Dorrit</em> and the Debt Crisis

Little Dorrit and the Debt Crisis

Nov 7 11 • Ryan Grant • 1 comment

With the name of the great author Charles Dickens, titles such as A Christmas Carol or Great Expectations frequently come to mind. Otherwise, Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities will leap to the lips of those more literate. Yet one of his lesser-known works highly deserving of attention is Little Dorrit, written in the […]

They Are People, Too!

Nov 7 11 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

Protecting immigrants from oppression is a centuries old duty of both Jews and Christians. “You shall not oppress or afflict a resident alien, for you were once aliens residing in the land of Egypt. Exodus 22: 20.” Most, if not all, of the people with whom I work in the pro life apostolate take that […]

No Regrets: Frank Kravetz’s Story

Nov 7 11 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

“Just existing became what was important,” says 87-year-old Frank Kravetz of Pittsburgh, captive of the “hell-hole” that was Nuremberg Prison Camp. “Yet even as I struggled with the day-to-day sadness and despair, I never once had any regrets that I signed up to serve.” An extended tour of Nazi camps as a wounded POW scratching […]