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Short-Lived Euphoria in Europe

Nov 2 11 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 1 comment

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, was a giddy day for European politicians and global investors. European Union officials announced a plan for addressing the EU’s worst financial problems. There would be a partial write-down of Greek sovereign debt—a 50 percent haircut for private bondholders, but no haircut for governmental creditors (the political class looks after its […]

In Philadelphia, A Model School Kindles Hope

Nov 2 11 • Kevin E. Schmiesing Ph.D. • 0 comments

For too long government-run systems have dominated American primary and secondary education. As innovations of the past two decades such as charter schools and vouchers prove, parents, children, and society benefit when government promotes rather than stifles educational reform based on choice and competition. Add to the mounting evidence another success story: St. Martin de […]

Top Muslim Declares All Christians ‘Infidels’

Nov 2 11 • Raymond Ibrahim • 0 comments

To what extent was Egypt’s Maspero massacre, wherein the military literally mowed down Christian Copts protesting the ongoing destruction of their churches, a product of anti-Christian sentiment? A video of Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa (or Gom’a), which began circulating weeks before the massacre, helps elucidate. While holding that Muslims may coexist with Christians […]

Did Christ Make the Apostles Priests?

Nov 2 11 • Kevin M. Tierney • 9 comments

When discussing the Catholic priesthood, many questions need to be considered. First and foremost, we must ask ourselves where the idea of the priesthood comes from in the Scriptures. Contrary to the ideas of our Protestant brethren, the idea of the ministerial priesthood is clearly enunciated within the New Testament. Indeed, if there is no […]

Why Websites Look Terrific, but Under-Perform.

Nov 2 11 • Katherine Andes • 0 comments

Over the years, I’ve worked with numerous business owners who have spent a considerable chunk of change building their websites. Then they sit back and wait for results … but the results are often less than stellar. The owner is discouraged and thinks all this Internet marketing stuff is a bunch of hooey. It’s not […]

The Enemy is Inside the Wire

Nov 2 11 • Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. • 2 comments

What would have happened if, during the Cold War, Soviet intelligence had been responsible for training Americans charged with countering communist aggression? Surely, we would not have defeated the USSR. Perhaps, instead, Kruschev’s boast that his nation would dance on our graves would have been realized. It should, therefore, be profoundly alarming that, today, the […]

Poem: “For Jerry”

Nov 2 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

For Jerry My Host laid down a carpet of the softest leaves, He gave me those to travel on, I was fatigued, If they not fallen then it would be hard To walk along that forest pathway heaven-ward – Mostly poplar, gold and rust, and then some red, Crimson sumac leaves on which the sun […]

Governments Condemn UN Official’s Attempt to Create A Right to Abortion

Nov 1 11 • Timothy Herrmann • 0 comments

At UN headquarters [last] week, governments dismissed a high level UN bureaucrat’s claim that abortion is a human right and went so far as to scold him for overstepping his mandate. The Special Rapporteur for Health, Anand Grover, presented his report to delegates of the UN Third Committee linking unrestricted abortion with the right to the […]

Egypt – Christian Experience the Worst in Centuries

Nov 1 11 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

According to a local Coptic leader in Egypt, “Christians are currently experiencing their worst time in recent centuries.” This statement was made by the Coptic Orthodox Bishop Stephanos of Beba and Elfashn to international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). As he described, Christians are being violently killed under the eyes […]

From Scrupulosity to <em>Lutherosity</em>, Part 2

From Scrupulosity to Lutherosity, Part 2

Nov 1 11 • Trent Beattie • 0 comments

Contrary to Luther’s misconception (see Part 1 ), humility is in reality wise, while pride is foolish. St Alphonsus tells us that “no fool esteems himself foolish, but his folly consists in being a fool without knowing it.” Luther was so foolish that his own pride appeared to him as wisdom. Luther seemed to go […]

Welcoming the New Mass for Human Life

Nov 1 11 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

With the start of Advent, Catholics begin using a new translation of the Mass. Along with this there are two brand new texts for a Mass “For Giving Thanks to God for the Gift of Human Life.” This is the result of a long process that actually started with Cardinal John O’Connor of New York […]

Dad Behind Viral ‘I am the 10%’ Down Syndrome Image Speaks Out

Nov 1 11 • John Jalsevac • 0 comments

In the past week a powerful pro-life photo featuring a child with Down syndrome has started circulating around Facebook. The image shows the smiling child holding a sign declaring that he is the “10%” of children with Down syndrome who managed to survive abortion after Roe v. Wade. “I am God’s handiwork and I bear […]

Poem: “Pierre’s Pockets”

Nov 1 11 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

Pierre’s Pockets The beginning of Wisdom Is Fear of the Lord, So Wisdom with age? I’ve seen no accord. So you’ve lived many decades Seen the world more than twice. But what have you learned? That sinners are nice? That sinners eat And sinners drink And sinners read And sinners think! And sinners have Sincere […]

The Call to Live Transformed Lives as Catholic Men

Oct 31 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek. For in it is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous by faith will live.” The wrath […]

Mother <em>AND</em> Teacher: The Church, Financial Reform, and Realism

Mother AND Teacher: The Church, Financial Reform, and Realism

Oct 31 11 • John Médaille • 0 comments

It has occurred to me that Europe doesn’t give a damn if Greece goes down. The EU concern is not for Greece, but for all the banks that lent all those Euros to Athens and now stand to lose them. The cradle of Western Civilization is expendable, but the vaults of the bankers must be […]

The Occupy Movement: A Report from Occupy Seattle, Part 2

Oct 31 11 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 8 comments

What does Occupy Wall Street want? Last week GOP Presidential candidate, Herman Cain stated, “nobody knows what their cause is. How are you going to assist them with a cause when you don’t know what the cause is?” Well, I’m not sure about the representativeness of the signs carried at camp-outs and marches during Occupy […]

The Arab Spring is Not Your (Founding) Father’s Democracy

Oct 31 11 • Raymond Ibrahim • 4 comments

What a myopic view the Western media and its array of “experts” have concerning the so-called “Arab Spring” — a myopia that naturally metastasizes among the general public. Consider the Libyan crisis. As usual, the focus is entirely on the individual, on the tangible — the now dead Gaddafi — whom all the blame can […]

From Scrupulosity to <em>Lutherosity</em>, Part 1

From Scrupulosity to Lutherosity, Part 1

Oct 31 11 • Trent Beattie • 6 comments

Many people admire Martin Luther (1483-1546) for his defiance of Church authority in the name of religious freedom. The idea is that Luther stood up to overbearing Church leaders who were no more than pagans in disguise. Luther freed us from unlawful intrusion in the area of conscience, which is supposed to be left to […]

The Fighting Nun in Rome and the Pope Pius XII Museum

Oct 31 11 • Dr. Robert Moynihan • 2 comments

I was privileged this afternoon [written October 26] to spend time with Sister Margherita Marchione, the so-called “fighting nun,” who has spent 50 years battling to defend the truth about the life and activity of Pope Pius XII, who reigned from 1939 to 1958, during the time of the Second World War. Sister Margherita, who […]

Poem: “All Hallow’s Eve”

Oct 31 11 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

ALL HALLOW’S EVE On All Hallow’s Eve Doth blow the leave Bare branches Bend down to the ground. Children believe And simply conceive There’s evil And it’s all around. So pumpkins all lit Trick or treat just a bit All costumed they Go through the town. They face with much wit Tell jokes that do […]

Love Notes: A Catechesis for Marriage on the Brink

Oct 31 11 • Lisa Mladinich • 0 comments

The king of love my shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am his, and he is mine forever. -From “The King of Love my Shepherd Is” by Henry Williams Baker Marriage is an image of Christ and His bride, the Church. It is a sanctuary for love, for the bringing […]

Thy Brother’s Keeper: Why Wrongful Convictions Should Matter to You

Oct 30 11 • Fr. Gordon J. MacRae • 2 comments

The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners – and clear evidence of a wrongful conviction problem. No one can watch the Oscar-winning 1993 film, The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, without rooting for Dr. Richard Kimball. We empathize with this skilled surgeon […]

Ghost Season

Oct 30 11 • Michael Baruzzini • 1 comment

I do not see ghosts; I only see their inherent probability – G. K. Chesterton. This is the season of ghosts. Halloween has been co-opted as a secular holiday, poised to overtake Christmas in terms of commercial sales, and distorted in many cases into a grotesque and diabolical celebration of the macabre and ugly. While […]

Poem: “October Feast Day”

Oct 30 11 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

October Feast Day In the gold mouth Of the morning I knead the bread From wheat. Mix broccoli, bacon In wooden bowl Add raisins Sugared sweet. A Burgundy wine From His own grape Marinating beef Will seep. Then later boil Egg noodles, white Pile in a Buttered heap. Chocolate cake Oh what a gift Miraculous […]