Archive for June, 2013

Sex-Trafficking in China
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Sex-Trafficking in China

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On June 19, 2013 the State Department released its annual report, “Trafficking in Persons Report.” China received an automatic downgrade to the lowest ranking, Tier 3. The State Department acknowledged the one-child policy as the “key source of demand” for sex-trafficking within the country, but remained silent on revoking the policy in its recommendations for […]

Helping Our Children Discern Their Vocations
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Helping Our Children Discern Their Vocations

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When I grow up, I’m going to be a priest and a policeman.” “I want to be a nun who rides horses and sings. Can a nun have babies?” “Mummy, when I grow up I’m going to marry you.” I smile as I remember these statements made by some of my children when they were […]

Book Review: <em>The Catholic Baby Name Book</em>
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Book Review: The Catholic Baby Name Book

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Considering that no one in my family is expecting, it might seem strange that I have been so happily perusing a baby name book.  But The Catholic Baby Name Book by Catholic Lane Senior Editor, Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur, is a complete delight and of nearly the same interest whether you are looking to name an expected […]

Barack Obama - Hillary Clinton - Bill Clinton
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Poem: "Jim" and "And Then There Were Nine"
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Poem: “Jim” and “And Then There Were Nine”

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Jim This one’s for you, the man you’ve become. There were many years we had no connection, for whatever reason we’ve made the correction. We’ve missed so much because of the choices we’ve made, and there seems little time to make up the gain. So before it is too late for you to know, that […]

Re-Evaluating Television: Questions of Morality
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Re-Evaluating Television: Questions of Morality

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One of my fondest memories of my grandmother is watching Little House on the Prairie with her when I was a child.  Knowing she loved Little House on the Prairie, one Christmas I decided to purchase the first season of The Waltons for her.   I am not entirely sure if she ever watched any of […]

Rainbow Flag March
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Liberals Embrace Fatherless (and Motherless) Families

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Think about it: married female-female parents will be households without dads.

Summer Camp: Exploring New Passions
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Summer Camp: Exploring New Passions

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At some point between the ages of 5 and 12 most children find a passion.  It may be a vocational kind of passion like an animal-lover on the path to veterinary medicine, or an avocation like a softball player who one day applies that determination to passing the Bar Exam.  At this tender age, it’s […]

Weekly Wits
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Weekly Wits: 6/28/13

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Irish Abortion Bill Will End Lives to Promote False “Right”
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Irish Abortion Bill Will End Lives to Promote False “Right”

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This is how crazy the situation has become in Ireland. The abortion bill that is nearing a vote on the Emerald Isle is being pushed by politicians who promised not to do what they are now doing. OK, maybe this is not shocking anymore. But the bill is being sold as necessary to save the […]

Immigration Reform: Renewing the Soul of a Nation
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Immigration Reform: Renewing the Soul of a Nation

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“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of us Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs?” – Benjamin Franklin, 1751 “Immigration is about more than immigration.  It is about renewing the soul of America.” – +Jose […]

Scalia: SCOTUS Decision Declares Marriage Supporters ‘Enemies of the Human Race’
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Scalia: SCOTUS Decision Declares Marriage Supporters ‘Enemies of the Human Race’

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In a scathing dissenting opinion released yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia lambasted his fellow Supreme Court Justices for striking down a critical part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and predicted that it will only be a matter of time before the court finds a Constitutional right to gay “marriage.” Scalia labeled Wednesday’s decision “jaw-dropping,” […]

American Church
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American Church

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In the question period after a talk I’d given on my new book, American Church, a woman raised an important point: “If the Church in the U.S. faces as many problems as you say, why is it doing so much better here than in much of Europe?” Great question. My answer–which I also give in […]

Lying is Normal, But Not Okay
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Lying is Normal, But Not Okay

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You’ve caught your child fibbing time and time again — even about inconsequential things where telling the truth would not result in consequences. Do you have an issue with integrity? Is it a normal phase of child development? Or are you raising a serial liar? I’ll never understand why children try to lie their way […]

Gulliver Bound By Lilliputians
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Wake Up, Gulliver: The Lilliputians Are Almost Done

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Or is it already too late?

Abandoned by God?
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Abandoned by God?

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It is late, almost midnight. The St. Louis Cardinals ballgame ended just a few moments ago, so I turn off the radio on the nightstand. Now, the house is quiet, the bedroom dark. The only sounds I can detect are the dog’s snoring and my wife’s soft breathing as she lays sleeping next to me. […]

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Be a Living Stone of the Church

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Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like briefly to refer to one more picture that helps us to illustrate the mystery of the Church: that of the temple (cf. Lumen Gentium, 6). What does the word, ‘temple’ call to mind? It makes us think of a building, a construction. In particular, it recalls to […]

US Bishops: 'Tragic Day For Marriage And Our Nation'
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US Bishops: ‘Tragic Day For Marriage And Our Nation’

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The U.S. Supreme Court decisions June 26 striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act and refusing to rule on the merits of a challenge to California’s Proposition 8 mark a “tragic day for marriage and our nation,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and […]

Improvements and Ongoing Problems in Myanmar
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Improvements and Ongoing Problems in Myanmar

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A local Catholic leader has taken a critical view of the progress of the reform process in Myanmar, noting some improvements amid ongoing problems. The Archbishop of Rangoon, Charles Bo, made his comments at an event organized by international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). According to the archbishop, “The democratic […]

'Exit International' Founder Briefly Detained Before Holding UK Suicide Workshops
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‘Exit International’ Founder Briefly Detained Before Holding UK Suicide Workshops

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Australia’s leading euthanasia advocate, Dr. Philip Nitschke, was detained on Sunday night at London’s Gatwick Airport as he was attempting to enter the UK. He was held for over two hours overnight but eventually allowed to proceed. Dr. Nitschke has arrived to conduct his European “Nitro & Nembutal” workshops and speaking tour teaching people how […]

John B. Tabb - Priest-Poet
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Tabb’s Poetry XXIV

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Five poems by John B. Tabb.

New Research: Unwanted Pregnancies Become Wanted Children
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New Research: Unwanted Pregnancies Become Wanted Children

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From the stage at the recent Women Deliver conference, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who “did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide.” Chelsea’s grandmother was born of an unintended pregnancy. […]

Exchanging Liberty for Tyranny
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Exchanging Liberty for Tyranny

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“The only foundation for .  .  . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” Benjamin Rush Conservative Christians like myself love quotes like this, and the nice thing […]

Abortion and Racism in America
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Abortion and Racism in America

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Abortionist Douglas Karpen, who operates two abortion facilities in Houston, Texas, is currently under criminal investigation. His practice of twisting “babies’ heads off” their bodies in order to ensure that a late-term abortion results in death for the baby was discussed in exclusive live interviews with three of his former employees. And the fireworks began. […]