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I Don’t Need your Catechism!

Sep 2 11 • Marlon De La Torre • 9 comments

A couple of years ago, a pastor asked me to provide a catechetical training day for teachers in his Catholic school and CCD program. One of my first questions to him was what issues had developed that required my assistance. The Pastor voiced to me his concern over poor doctrinal formation he suspected the children […]

Assessing Qaddafi

Sep 2 11 • Daniel Pipes • 0 comments

The world’s longest ruling head of state, Mu’ammar al-Qadhdhafi (the correct transliteration of his name), would have been ruler of Libya for exactly 42 years on Sept. 1. As he leaves the scene, his wretched reign deserves an appraisal. Qaddafi took power at the age of 27 in the waning days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, […]

Movie Review: <em>Seven Days in Utopia</em>

Movie Review: Seven Days in Utopia

Sep 2 11 • Mary Kochan • 0 comments

Pop quiz — I’ll give you the plot; you name the movie: Up and coming rookie sports star in need of an attitude adjustment accidentally strands himself in a small heartland America town where he runs into a former top performer in his sport who left the limelight years ago but has profound life-changing wisdom […]

Poem: “Mystery Tremendous”

Sep 2 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Mystery Tremendous Doorway but no door And yet no entrance in, Chamber but no floor, Windows in the wind O mystery tremendous Of which there is no telling, People all around us Celled in separate dwellings Will there be release When all has come to be And separateness has ceased? Tremendous mystery Will all the […]

Canons Offer New Way of Life for American Priests, Part One

Sep 1 11 • Amy Bonaccorso • 1 comment

The Canons Regular of St. Augustine, a group of priests who live in community and serve parishes, recently landed in Long Island, New York. Their blend of community life and diocesan ministry is ancient, but a first for the U.S. The Order’s new American foundation, the Canonry of St. Leopold, offers fresh possibilities for U.S. […]

The Problem With the UN’s New Fertility Forecasts

Sep 1 11 • Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. • 0 comments

The UN has reversed a decade of speculation about a demographic winter in the West, and now says that every country will achieve replacement fertility by 2100 resulting in a global population of 10 billion. The problem is there is no basis for their turnabout. UN agencies are hailing new numbers as evidence of overpopulation […]

All the Bad Parents out There: Raise Your Hand

Sep 1 11 • Marybeth Hicks • 0 comments

Ok, fess up. Are you a good parent or a bad one? Last week, bad parents were all over the news, so if you weren’t plastered throughout the media for pouring hot sauce down your son’s throat, shaving your daughter’s head for lying, or otherwise terrorizing the little ones in your care, you’re not as […]

Poem: “The Incredible Edible Catholic Egg”

Sep 1 11 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

The Incredible Edible Catholic Egg Incredible, Edible, Catholic egg. For you I’d sell An arm and a leg. Delighting rich And simple Folk. Hard-boiled White Around the yolk. Sometimes scrambled. Sometimes Fried. Often next To bacon’s Side. Spittering, Sputtering, Splashing grease But into my life You bring Such peace. For after Matins’ morning Prayer I […]

Planned Parenthood’s Construction Job

Sep 1 11 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

The headlines are teeming with the news that in one state after another, Planned Parenthood is falling prey to common sense. In Arizona the world-famous preborn-baby-killing company has had to stop aborting babies in three of its facilities. According to news reports, “[W]omen will no longer be able to terminate their pregnancies at the Planned […]

Blomberg’s 9/11 Gag Rule Insults Catholics

Aug 31 11 • Bill Donohue • 1 comment

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s handling of the 9/11 memorial ceremonies: Last year, Mayor Bloomberg sought to justify his support for building a mosque near Ground Zero by recalling the bravery of the firefighters on that fateful day. “In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of […]

An Open Letter to the Libyan Rebels: Don’t Copy Our Mistakes

Aug 31 11 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 1 comment

Libyan rebels take heed. Since relatively little remains left over from the Gaddafi regime, the transition process provides the first chance in the Arab Spring for national replanting in newly plowed soil. Neither Egypt nor Tunisia enjoys such an opportunity. Lest your opportune moment be let slip, cautions and recommendations carry more urgency. Invariably the […]

“Understanding” Joe Biden Perfects the Kowtow

Aug 31 11 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

The Vice President is being hammered for seeming to condone Chinese-style population control. Answering a question about the one-child policy, he seemed to go out of his way to be noncritical, saying that he “fully understands” the one-child-per-family policy and was not “second-guessing” it. His defenders maintain that this does not constitute an endorsement of […]

Impressing the Boss

Aug 31 11 • Joe Ollier • 0 comments

Our family didn’t make it to an amusement park this summer, but when I was a kid, summer always meant two things: a trip to King’s Island and a new pair of shoes. My dad’s company had a company picnic every year in June, and from the time I was about 6, that picnic took […]

Race, Segregation, and Heaven

Aug 31 11 • Dr. Gary Scott Smith • 0 comments

The new movie, The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling book by the same name, continues to lead ticket sales at the box office. Both dramatize the extent and tragedy of segregation and discrimination in the South during the early 1960s. Racism affected almost every area of Southern (and many areas of Northern) society before […]

Will There be Zombies? Part 3

Aug 31 11 • John Médaille • 1 comment

The task we will face will depend on the shape of the collapse, which will vary from city to city, and from town to countryside. [Part 1, Part 2] Modern life is dependent on complex networks for electricity, water, sewer, transportation, gas, education, security, banking, food supplies, medical care, and so forth. Almost all of […]

Poem: “Beggars”

Aug 31 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Beggars No longer will you be an actor, play yourself, There is no script to follow Nor will the face behind the mask be hollow For then the scenery, the flats and props Fall down And charming false anticipation stops But truth is for themselves alone, not others, They live by what they’re taught – […]

Stay Awake and Always be Ready for the Lord’s Return

Aug 30 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the […]

The Spiritual Side of Life

Aug 30 11 • Michael Baruzzini • 6 comments

Science and art are not as distant from one another as it might seem. I suggest that one of the reasons “science nerds” also tend to be the “fantasy nerds” is that they are attracted to the same thing: fantastical worlds full of myriad laws and multifarious beings, whose interactions cannot be determined in advance, […]

The Folly of More Centralized Power

Aug 30 11 • Ray Nothstine • 0 comments

Americans’ satisfaction and feeling of connection with Washington has dwindled to an all time low. According to a recent Rasmussen survey, only 17 percent of likely voters believe that the federal government has the consent of the governed. The numbers are hardly surprising. Congress recently cut a deal to saddle Americans with trillions of dollars […]

Religious or Not, Human Power Untethered From Reality is Tyranny

Aug 30 11 • Robert J. Gieb • 1 comment

If you are a citizen of North Korea and a Christian, you are a criminal and will be imprisoned, and probably tortured as well. If you are Christian in Saudi Arabia you will be arrested for a public display of your faith. In China and Vietnam you will be imprisoned and persecuted by the state if […]

Bad Stuff Happens to Business Websites

Aug 29 11 • Katherine Andes • 0 comments

When working with smaller companies, I always try to stress the need to maintain as much control over their websites as possible. Unfortunately, I’ve run into folks who have given too much power to web developers whose ethics are less than stellar. For example, some developers will take over the task of registering a domain […]

Book Review: <em>The Adventures of Beer Man</em>

Book Review: The Adventures of Beer Man

Aug 29 11 • Michelle Reitemeyer • 1 comment

It’s not very PC to consider yourself a drinker. Alcohol has a bad rap, and its consumption is best kept to a minimum in public and polite society. Think I’m joking? Not too long ago, at a military ball, an official announcement was made that anyone who had had anything at all to drink had […]

The Bedroom in the Classroom: Clio is Not Amused

Aug 29 11 • Dr. Jason R. Edwards • 0 comments

Though my mastery of Greek mythology is not strong enough to know off-hand the muse of history’s sexual orientation, I do know that Clio might try to persuade her father to hurl thunderbolts from Mt. Olympus into Sacramento as punishment for defiling her beloved discipline. The crime? On July 14, California Governor Jerry Brown signed […]

Now Is the Day of Salvation

Aug 29 11 • Philip Primeau • 0 comments

Jesus declared to the pharisees, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). This enigmatic saying challenges what Father Stephen Freemancalls “two-storey Christianity,” which views the Creator as radically separated from His creation. Two-storey Christianity is responsible for the fixation on “getting to heaven,” so commonplace among modern western believers. In contradistinction, the Gospel […]