My heart is broken. There is a family — the Kazas — who live just down the road from us. They are a large Catholic family, with eleven children. I’ve never met them, but some of their children went to school with some of our children. As with many large Catholic families, we travel in…
I’ve got a long-standing and deep dislike for graphic abortion photos. I remember as a teen, going to the March for Life, and having a certain breed of angry old men standing on the sidelines with huge posters of dismembered, bloody babies, yelling that abortion was murder. We know! I would think to myself. Why do you…
The Spanish-Language website, Adelante La Fe (Advance the Faith) obtained an exclusive interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, our favorite Catholic prelate in the world today, and a once (and hopefully future!) contributor to this website. The interview covers some extremely heady subjects. Among these: The serious diminution of faith in the Real Presence of Christ in…
Last week, I told you about Archbishop Blase Cupich from Chicago – about his rather unfortunate track record as a Catholic prelate, his discomfort with the Traditional Mass and the pro-life movement, and how that uneasiness doesn’t extend to pro-abortion politicians. I then told you about how Archbishop Cupich drew direct moral equivalency between dismembering…
Archbishop Blase Cupich has made some troubling choices over the years. As the Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, he decided to bar the parishioners of the local Latin Mass parish from entering the church during the Easter Triduum so that he could provide “an opportunity on an annual basis for us to all worship together, for one moment…
As Catholics we know that we have received life from God Who reveals Himself to our minds and hearts in two ways: by nature, or in the finality (referred to in theology as “the Wisdom of God”) inscribed in the very nature of things. This is called the Natural Law and includes in part what…
In 2006, I had a bit of a lucky break. Coming off of a bad run of underemployment and a housing market crash that ramped up just as I was getting my real estate license, I landed a job working for an elite crisis communications firm just outside of Washington, DC. The firm in question specialized…
Just a few minutes ago, the Center for Medical Progress released their latest undercover video of Planned Parenthood’s revolting practices – this despite a federal judge (one who is an Obama appointee and who raised $200,000 for the president’s campaign, natch) issued a temporary restraining order on Friday to stop the video’s release. And the desperate attempt…
Yesterday, the question of whether to defund Planned Parenthood — which receives half a billion dollars annually from the taxpayers so they can dismember children — was put to a vote in the U.S. Senate. The measure was, as we all expected despite our hopes and prayers, defeated. In case you were wondering how your…
It was the last weekend in October, 1999, and my friends and I were on a four-day break from classes at Franciscan University’s Austrian campus. We had journeyed half-way across Europe to Normandy, France, stopping first in Bayeux on that Thursday to see the magnificent 11th-century cathedral and its eponymous, world-famous “tapestry“. After a night spent trying to…
I like lions. I like whales, cephalopods, glow worms, wildebeests, butterflies, stick insects, frogs and all types of cnidaria (that’s jellyfish, son). I was kind of sad when I saw Cecil the lion got shot. You wouldn’t think it from my professional writing, where human rights violations are my primary interest, but I go helplessly…
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