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It’s the Spending, Stupid: A Crucial Historical Look at Federal Spending

It’s the Spending, Stupid: A Crucial Historical Look at Federal Spending

Aug 24 11 • • 25 comments

We have failed to heed the lessons of economic history, with terrible consequences for our economy and country. And the most crucial of those lessons, particularly since the start of LBJ’s Great Society, is this: deficits have been caused not by a lack of income-tax increases but by recession and, most of all, by excessive […]

Evangelizing Our Kids

Evangelizing Our Kids

What does Scripture say to parents about evangelizing their children? At what age of the child should parents begin? One day, the Pharisees tested Jesus with an important question – of all 613 of the Bible’s laws, which is most important?  The Lord quickly shot back a response: “you shall love the Lord your God […]

Poem: "Once There was a Father"

Poem: “Once There was a Father”

Once There was a Father Once, there was a father, Who loved his little girl. He held her hand and walked to Mass So she could see the Pearl. “My darling, there is silver, My darling, there is gold, But the greatest price is sacrifice, The world keeps that untold. The world can give you […]

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A Parenting Question about Teen Chastity

I ask you to share your wisdom. How have you walked this line of taking a strong stance against having sex before marriage while being pro-life and supporting those who have children out-of-wedlock?

Values Voters Are Still In The Game

Values Voters Are Still In The Game

Aug 23 11 • • 0 comments

In these difficult economic times, both sides of the political aisle are desperate to convince the American people that they are the party with the best plan for pulling America out of recession.  As the GOP field of serious presidential contenders finally begins to clarify, the prevailing assumption is that whoever challenges President Obama for […]

Six Opportunities for Young Adults in a Tough Economy

Six Opportunities for Young Adults in a Tough Economy

Aug 23 11 • • 0 comments

Our tough economy does have opportunities for young people just graduating or seeking that first real job. How do I know? I was twenty-something during the last bad economy. My friends and I struggled to find our way, sometimes to find ANY job, let alone THE job for which we had trained or hoped to […]

Research: US and UN Diplomats Promoted Abortion as Population Control

Research: US and UN Diplomats Promoted Abortion as Population Control

Aug 23 11 • • 3 comments

The new book by journalist Mara Hvistendahl on sex selected abortion (Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men) shows how American diplomats and politicians were active in promoting abortion, often through UN channels, as a means of population control in the developing world.  A body of historical evidence connects the […]

The Pope and the Disabled Meet in Madrid

The Pope and the Disabled Meet in Madrid

Aug 23 11 • • 1 comment

Among the groups honored by an audience with the Holy Father during World Youth Day, was a group of sick and disabled youth from St Joseph’s Hospital. Like the seminarians, university professors, and women religious, the Holy Father wanted to remind them of their vital importance in the life of the Church. This may surprise […]

Gift from Pope John Paul II for Persecuted WYD11 Pilgrims

Gift from Pope John Paul II for Persecuted WYD11 Pilgrims

Aug 23 11 • • 1 comment

Rosaries and medals blessed by Pope John Paul II were given to young Catholics from persecuted countries at World Youth Day. Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), which held an exhibition about Christian persecution as part of World Youth Day’s cultural program in Madrid, gave the blessed objects to visitors to the […]

Poem: "The Weight"

Poem: “The Weight”

Aug 23 11 • • 0 comments

The Weight The land Because of our cruelty Because of the martyrs of insolence Because of the children tortured, abused Because of the old ones abandoned, exposed Because of the massacres, dreadful slaughters Because of indifference to love and faith Will be wiped away clean Will be cleansed and scoured We are all as one […]

Libya and the Doctrine of Justifiable Rebellion

Libya and the Doctrine of Justifiable Rebellion

Does an armed plebiscite constitute an ethical tool of democracy?  The victory of the rebels in Libya (August 2011) calls to mind the old controversy about revolution, and whether citizens can rightly rebel against their long established government.  Insofar as the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi escalated into six months of civil war, Libya (as distinguished […]

What Letterman Should Say

What Letterman Should Say

Aug 22 11 • • 3 comments

After receiving a threat from al Qaeda for making fun of Muslim terrorists on the “Late Show,” David Letterman has gone mum. Catholic League president Bill Donohue recommends he issue the following statement immediately:   Though I never mentioned Muslims or Islam in my June 8 monologue, I received a serious death threat from al […]

<em>Ark of Grace</em>: Ch.2, Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant

Ark of Grace: Ch.2, Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant

Chapter 2 Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant The meaning of Sacred Scripture has been placed there by the Holy Spirit. This has been done in such way that we will never be able to plumb the depths of wisdom that can be found in the Bible. With the eyes of faith we are […]

Obama: From Truman’s Whistle-Stop to Wilsonian Folly

Obama: From Truman’s Whistle-Stop to Wilsonian Folly

President Obama’s tour through the Midwest in a coal-black Darth Vader-mobile begs comparison with past presidential excursions. I’m thinking of those made by presidents Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson. First, the president repeated his Trumanesque mantra about his version of a “do-nothing Congress,” dominated by a minority who put the good of the party above […]

The Fruit of Personal Encounters with Jesus Christ

The Fruit of Personal Encounters with Jesus Christ

Aug 22 11 • • 0 comments

After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus […]

One More Reason the Out Years are Too Late

One More Reason the Out Years are Too Late

Aug 22 11 • • 0 comments

Here’s a fact that was not lost on my teenage daughter: The infamous debt-ceiling deal doesn’t actually reduce much of our debt until she finishes high school, graduates from college, and has potentially purchased a minivan and a pair of mom jeans. Did I mention she’s just about to start ninth grade? “Wait,” my daughter […]

Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

I’m an animal lover.  At this time, two dogs, a cat, and a hamster are part of our family.  For ten years, I’ve uplifted the spirits of nursing home residents and staff by bringing dogs in to visit. My kids and I regularly witness the power of our furry friends.   At one nursing home, there […]

Don't Forget Paris

Don’t Forget Paris

This summer brought with it the recurrence of America’s fascination with all things Parisian. Actually, it is more than fascination and more like a deep romance which persists over time, only slightly diminished by the ebb and flow of diplomatic relations between the two great but, really, not so different U.S. and French republics. In […]

WARRIOR’s Heart

WARRIOR’s Heart

Aug 22 11 • • 2 comments

There’s an art to the way one lives one’s life. Perspective, serenity, openness to beauty, the ability to see goodness in things – these qualities are only possible when one is in balance. And right now film director Gavin O’Connor is in balance, though perhaps a precarious one, pulled as he is in so many […]

Poem: "Bravado"

Poem: “Bravado”

Bravado from Exodus 2 What a beautiful baby brother you have to hide among the reeds along the river where you’ve seen Pharaoh’s daughter bathe, splashing water against her kind kohl-lined eyes. You’ve noticed her before, haven’t you, Miriam, as you’ve gone outdoors to play? Did you watch her as you gathered papyrus reeds to […]

Poem: "Five Sons"

Poem: “Five Sons”

Five Sons Today five sons Served on the altar Determined boys Who would not falter. Boys at home Who fight and shove But on the altar Assist with love. At home shouting From top of lung On the altar Latin’s sung. At home running Can’t sit still. On the altar Disciplined will. At home throwing […]

Poem: "The Cage"

Poem: “The Cage”

Aug 21 11 • • 0 comments

The Cage The trees were steel And the ax of wood In the desert of God Where Jesus stood Cut down this forest Satan said And use the steel To bake our bread And when you have This ration baked Prove yourself Your own namesake Throw yourself From wall to rock If angels are Your […]

Separation of Church and State: Clarifying What Jefferson Meant

Separation of Church and State: Clarifying What Jefferson Meant

Aug 20 11 • • 2 comments

We Christians – all of us, Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox – need an effective rebuttal to the harmful anti-church insistence that Thomas Jefferson, writing in his capacity of President, held that the Constitution forbade any religious expression in any public place. We have often argued correctly that when Jefferson said “church” he meant either a […]

Book Review: <em>Unnatural Selection</em>, Part two

Book Review: Unnatural Selection, Part two

How “Complicit” is the UN in Asia’s Sex Selective Abortion Crisis? A new book has raised hackles among abortion advocates about just how much the UN Population Fund is to blame for more than 160 million missing girls in Asia: aborted in the quest for sons.   Mara Hvistendahl’s Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the […]