Fr. Dwight on Aurora and Demonic Possession
Earlier today, while linking to a sermon full of truth and victory, I also linked to this story in the WSJ, which contained a passage that more than a few people found creepy: Mr. Rotkovich called Mr....
View ArticleBREAKING: Feds Halt HHS Mandate Enforcement on Small Business Owner
The Newland Family employ about 250 people in their small business, and they try to live out their consciences as Catholics, which means they offer a health insurance plan, that does not include...
View ArticleQuick Chick-fil-A Roundup – UPDATES
Fr. Dwight Longenecker went to a Chick-fil-A yesterday in a cassock, and he says yesterday was a revolutionary day in protest-theory: Yesterday’s Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was the sort of ‘revolt’...
View ArticleWould US Elections Still Astound de Tocqueville and Chesterton?
If you’re not subscribing to The Catholic Answer, perhaps the September/October issue running up to the elections will get you to consider it. There, along with some excellent regular columns and the...
View ArticleUsing Gosnell to Snip at Obama, or the Press? – UPDATED
“If these children are being born alive, I have confidence that a doctor…” That is part of State Senator Barack Obama’s argument, in 2003, as to why he would not support any sort of legislation...
View ArticleMen on Strike: Fathers, Family, Frank Talk and First Things
Two weeks ago at First Things, I wondered what it would be like if Rep Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) had her way and women ruled the world. This week I’m continuing on the theme of men and women and families...
View ArticleNSA Inevitability and what Ted Kennedy Knew! – UPDATE
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Just some stuff to think about as we digest all of this breaking news about what the...
View ArticlePutting Away the Labels to Hear/See Each Other
Under it’s new editor, Matt Malone, S.J., America Magazine is doing a very good thing: America aspires to nothing more than to live up to the fullest meaning of our motto, to pursue the truth in love,...
View ArticleOver FCC Plans, MSM Finally a Bit Curious re Obama Admin – UPDATED
It’s only taken seven years, but a member of the mainstream media is finally asking “what are they thinking?” That would be the formerly “respectable” Howard Kurtz, the Columbia J-school grad who wrote...
View ArticleChristian Right? Christian Left? It’s Great to Have a Christian Anything
I’ve written two posts worth of thoughts on the idea of an authentically Christian left-wing political movement, and they’ve mostly consisted of cautions and warnings – obstacles to be overcome,...
View ArticleUnhappy Nation America: Not a Family, Not a People
America is not happy. However it might look on paper, in reality we are not getting along. We are e pluribus unum, no more. I wrote that, and later struck it as being too harsh, for my latest column at...
View ArticleThe Madness of the Mainstream Media UPDATED
If Michael Kelly and Tim Russert were alive today, they would be sickened and appalled to see the shambling madness that has descended upon their profession, most particularly as it manifests in the...
View ArticleThe Healy Brothers; a Thrilling, Shameful Story
February is Black History Month, and to kick it off historian Dr. Pat McNamara brings us a fascinating story that thrilled and shamed me. What a remarkable family of faith existed in the sons and...
View ArticleOur Daughters Dreams Arise from this Glad Slaughter!
The president, whose administration last Friday declared that religiously-founded institutions — schools, hospitals and charities — have no right to their own consciences when it comes to paying for...
View ArticleKomen and HHS: The Day of the Bully Dawns – UPDATED
In just about 24 hours the “non-political” billion-dollar entity known as Planned Parenthood — which does not itself do mammograms, despite how ABC News frames it — managed to leak the news that the...
View Article“Sisterhood” May be Reality-TV for Reality-TV Haters
Maybe. When it was announced that Lifetime network would be airing a “reality” series chronicling five young women as they “discerned” whether or not they have religious vocations, I was as skeptical...
View ArticleTumbling America and the Narrative Thrust UPDATED
America is in the process of tumbling: she has one party interested only in “remaking” America with or without the constitution’s guidance; it is a party become so expert at political maneuvering that...
View ArticlePelosi Tries to Give Talking Points to Catholics – UPDATED
Right on schedule, Nancy Pelosi tries to do what Ted Kennedy and Mario Cuomo have done before her: give talking points to Catholics who wish to hop on to policy that flies in the face of church...
View ArticleAre you Happy?
When my Elder son was very small, and was trying to figure out facial expressions, he would ask me, or my husband, or the lady at the grocery store, “Are you ‘appy?” He was missing his h’s for a little...
View ArticleSr. Mary Ann Walsh: A Humble Way of Mercy
A few years ago I happened to be sitting at a conference breakfast next to Sister Mary Ann Walsh, who at that time was serving as director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops...
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