You are here: Home » Site Map

Site Map

Site Feeds

Monthly Archives

All Articles

Distributism and the Current Crisis, Part 3: Localizing the Economy

[Part 1, Part 2] Political subsidiarity would mean little if the industrial system remained concentrated; it does no good to collect taxes locally if the production of goods, and therefore the production of taxable values, is not also widespread. We’ve noted the problems and inefficiencies of the current system, a system that is highly dependent […]

Poem: “Heavy Laden”

Jul 20 11 • Mary Harwell Sayler • 0 comments

Heavy Laden They’ve ruined me! Their weighty words assign work, work, work to my joy. How can I let go this lack of blessing? I stick out my neck, O Lord, for your yoke. Mary Harwell Sayler

Finding a Lampstand: A Review of Archbp. Chaput’s <em>Render Unto Caesar</em>

Finding a Lampstand: A Review of Archbp. Chaput’s Render Unto Caesar

Jul 19 11 • Michael J. Miller • 0 comments

Cardinal Justin Rigali announced at a news conference this morning [July 19, 2011,] that Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap. as the 13th Bishop and 9th Archbishop of Philadelphia. Archbishop Chaput [currently of the Archdiocese of Denver] will be Installed on Thursday, September 8, 2011, the feast of the birth […]

The Human Person in Hoarding’s Hellish Trap

Jul 19 11 • Christina King • 6 comments

There are many programs currently on cable dedicated to the issue of hoarding. For those of you who are unaware of what hoarding is, let me try and explain. Hoarding is the collecting and or keeping of possessions. The common word would be “stuff”. The “stuff” that hoarders keep is piled up so high that, […]

Google Analytics. Powerful Market Research — Gratis!

Jul 19 11 • Katherine Andes • 3 comments

What if you had access to powerful marketing research about your company, it cost you absolutely nothing, and you didn’t take advantage of it? If you think that’s not you … then think again. If you are like many, many website owners you are not taking advantage of the free Google Analytics tool available to […]

Poem: “No One Knows How Far”

Jul 19 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

No One Knows How Far What is the future like? You have not been there yet, A time you have not visited You need not now forget Someone saw me walking Down a foreign street Long beyond the telling Where past and future meet There within a city A square within a square, Infamous to […]

Solutions for the “Tax Gap”

Jul 19 11 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

In 2010, there was a “tax gap”—i.e., the difference between federal taxes owed and those actually paid—of $410–$500 billion. Some of the gap stems from the complexity of the tax code. Much of it, though, is deliberate: self-employed individuals working for cash, table-servers under-reporting tips, taxpayers claiming unauthorized credits and deductions. And don’t forget the […]

We Have Sufficient Grace for the Pro-life Fight

Jul 18 11 • Robert J. Gieb • 2 comments

Even those to whom the truth of the Resurrection has been revealed and claim to believe in that truth still struggle in a world broken and corrupted, where might makes right, and where sometimes the immensity of evil tempts us to doubt the divine presence. We live in a world where we see through the […]

Is Simple Attention the Islamists’ Greatest Enemy?

Jul 18 11 • Raymond Ibrahim • 0 comments

In a world paralyzed by political correctness and warped philosophies, attention is proving to be one of the greatest enemies of Islamist encroachment. Consider the difference between pre- and post-September 11: A decade after the 9/11 jihad got the West’s attention, many people — perhaps not unlike yourself — have become aware of Islam and […]

UN Women’s Flagship Report Encourages Radical Feminist Litigation

Jul 18 11 • Lauren Funk • 0 comments

Supporting advocates of legal abortions and lesbian rights is among the priorities of the newest UN super-agency, UN Women, evidenced in their first major publication released last week. “In Pursuit of Justice” details the progress made in advancing women’s rights worldwide through changing legal norms and ending discriminatory provisions of national laws. In particular, the […]

Public School Systems Cheating Nation’s Youth

Jul 18 11 • Marybeth Hicks • 0 comments

Benjamin Franklin said, “Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, it is forbidden because it is hurtful.” Someone ought to hang that quote in every doorway of every school and office of the Atlanta Public Schools system. Last week’s release by GeorgiaGov. Nathan Deal of an investigative report on widespread cheating within APS on […]

Poem: “Those Who Have No God”

Jul 18 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Those Who Have No God I saw a buzzard floating with its black wings outspread To see along the alleys the living and the dead Above the pale white city on a motionless March day – What can the wind be thinking of, to blow and die away? These are the prophet scavengers which gather […]

New ‘Dr. Death’ Admits to Assisting the Deaths of 300 in U.S.

Jul 17 11 • Thaddeus Baklinski • 0 comments

Dr. Lawrence Egbert, the medical director for the Final Exit Network (FEN) euthanasia advocacy organization, has been dubbed the new “Dr. Death,” after he admitted to the media that he and his organization have helped direct the deaths of nearly 300 people across the U.S. Euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian, who died in June of natural […]

Pro-Life Troubadour

Jul 17 11 • Agnes M. Penny • 0 comments

Our family likes to celebrate life’s events with poetry, so when we came home from our newborn daughter’s baptism, our older children each recited a poem on either baptism or new babies. I was pleased to learn that my 8-year-old chose to memorize “Tied Down” by Edgar A. Guest, a favorite poem of mine, and one […]

Irish Law Could Force Priests to Break Confessional Seal

Jul 17 11 • Terrence McKeegan, J.D. • 4 comments

From the Irish Catholic comes news that confirms just how far Ireland has fallen from its tradition of being the “land of saints and scholars”: The Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Children are all indicating that a proposed new law will require priests to break the seal of confession if someone confesses […]

Peace and Goodwill for South Sudan?

Jul 17 11 • ACN-USA News • 1 comment

The peaceful creation of South Sudan bodes well for the fledgling nation, but disaster could yet unfold unless serious issues are addressed quickly, according to leading bishops in the region. Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala hailed the success of formalities on Saturday, July 9th, marking the independence of South Sudan, describing it as a “wonderful day […]

The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

Jul 17 11 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

At one time or another, we’ve all dreamed of a perfect world. Imagine a company where everyone is productive, a government full of honest politicians, a church where all are saints. Dreaming about such things is natural; expecting such things is dangerous. Unrealistic expectations lead to discouragement, despair, even cynicism. That would be bad enough. […]

Poem: “Our Very Selves…”

Jul 17 11 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

Our Very Selves… The weight of our rebellions So heavy The savior falls to the ground and cries “…Let this cup pass…” But the angel comes With a looking glass Aimed at you and me To show Him our Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers Children, neighbors and friends Our very selves… The Angel whispers ‘The […]

Poem: “Broken House”

Jul 16 11 • Mary Harwell Sayler • 0 comments

Broken House Today I am convinced that everything I do has little value, Lord, to You, to others, or myself. A vase of many flaws, atop a shelf, just waiting: I speak, but no one hears the sound, and all around the silence of myself – berating – I wonder what will make me real? […]

The Right to Contract Marriage in the Catholic Church

Jul 16 11 • Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula • 1 comment

Living as we are in a period that exalts individual desires, especially regarding sexuality, many persons who consider themselves Catholics believe that they have a right to contract marriage in the Church in accordance with their own opinions on marriage. But really that is not the case. Baptized Catholics have the right to celebrate marriage […]

Prayer and Trust in Romans 8

Jul 15 11 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 1 comment

PRAY DAILY. I had only been in town a couple of days when I started noticing these bumper stickers. I saw them on cars, trucks, and vans around the city, and many of the same cars bore another sticker that read, TRUST JESUS. I thought, “Could there be a correlation?” Pray daily. Trust Jesus. If […]

Commodifying Compassion

Jul 15 11 • Jordan J. Ballor • 2 comments

Religious progressives are often quick to condemn those who extol the virtues of market economies for focusing too much on material concerns. This charge of materialism is, in fact, a core and valid insight contained in most critiques of consumerism, a phenomenon in which people tend to equate their own value and meaning with the […]

What if Caylee Anthony Died Younger?

Jul 15 11 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 1 comment

She was the perfect villainess: a callous, self-centered, derelict mother straight out of central casting. When her toddler daughter disappeared, she partied for a month without reporting the child missing. Then she blamed everyone from a fictional nanny to her own parents for the demise of the little girl whose remains eventually were found rotting […]

Poem: “Rara Avis in Terris Nigroque, Simillima Cycno”

Jul 14 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Rara Avis in Terris Nigroque, Simillima Cycno — Juvenal [A rare bird on Earth, like nothing so much as a black swan] But who will know when rare birds come That may take form as any shape, In greatness or as modicum, A man, a woman or an ape And they will walk and they […]