Category: Society & Common Good

How Are Your Fridays Going?
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How Are Your Fridays Going?

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by on Oct 29, 2019 in Apologetics, Canon Law, Catechesis, Cooking & Food, Evangelization, Featured, Health & Fitness, Live in Christ, Parenting, Resources, Society & Common Good, Women
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What are you doing this Friday? I’m asking about your penance, not that it’s my business, but the business of the Church is something I care about. And it seems that Friday penances largely disappeared along with the long lines outside Brown’s Fish and Chips every Friday. That was the fish restaurant in my neighborhood […]

USAID Gives Millions in Grants to Group Fighting U.S. Pro-Life Policy
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USAID Gives Millions in Grants to Group Fighting U.S. Pro-Life Policy

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by on Oct 19, 2018 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Those in Need
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The U.S. International Agency for International Development (USAID) just gave a hefty grant to CARE, a global aid organization that is working to undermine the administration’s pro-life policies and to insert abortion into humanitarian situations worldwide. While CARE trades on its neutrality on the issue of abortion to maintain U.S. funding, it also openly promotes, […]

Lines from the Declaration of Independence to Ponder this July
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Lines from the Declaration of Independence to Ponder this July

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by on Jul 04, 2018 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Live in Christ
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As youth, many of us were required to memorize – or at least study – the Declaration of Independence. Although we might not be able to quote it now, we’re probably able to spot it if we hear it read or recited by someone else. At least I hope so. The Declaration of Independence is […]

Hope in Times of Violence: Loved Ones are Closer Than We Think
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Hope in Times of Violence: Loved Ones are Closer Than We Think

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by on May 31, 2018 in Featured, The Social Order
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Pick up the paper or turn on the TV, and we hear of another mass shooting. It seems as if some Americans are steeped in rage, and we look on in horror. What can we do? How can we help? Our initial reaction may be to pray for those in mourning and hope that  it never happens […]

What’s It All About, Alfie?
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What’s It All About, Alfie?

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by on Apr 26, 2018 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Health & Fitness, The Social Order
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For the second time within a year, England has a high-profile case of court-mandated murder of a desperately ill child. The first was Charlie Gard, and now comes Alfie Evans. Alfie missed several developmental milestones in his first seven months of life, which did not alarm physicians at the time. It’s not known precisely what […]

Is Castration an Acceptable Punishment for Sex Offenders?
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Is Castration an Acceptable Punishment for Sex Offenders?

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by on Feb 21, 2018 in Featured, The Social Order
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Should sex offenders be castrated? Oklahoma legislators are considering a controversial bill to authorize chemical castration as condition of release for convicted sex offenders. Seven other states have similar legislation already in place, although reportedly, it’s used infrequently. Backers say the bill will dramatically reduce the incidence of sexual violence and end repeat offenses. It […]

Federal Debt Interest 2017
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Still a Bottomless Pit IV

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by on Oct 15, 2017 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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Why isn’t this figure newsworthy?

The Saint Children of Fatima Bring Their Message To Washington, D.C.
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The Saint Children of Fatima Bring Their Message To Washington, D.C.

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by on Sep 22, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The first-ever visit of the UN Pilgrim Statue of Fatima to the U.S. capital last week reminded Washingtonians that politics demands principles, and principled leaders. The United Nations Pilgrim Statue of Fatima spent two days at the Shrine of St. John Paul II, accompanied by the relics of two of the visionary children, newly canonized […]

The Principle of Solidarity and U.S. Healthcare: A Closer Look
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The Principle of Solidarity and U.S. Healthcare: A Closer Look

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by on Jun 16, 2017 in Creative Solidarity, Featured, Health & Fitness, Law & Justice
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When members of Congress were debating the Affordable Care Act, many Catholics suggested that the Catholic Principle of Subsidiarity was particularly instructive in the ongoing U.S. healthcare debate.  Although mindful of the many relevant Catholic principles involved in the discussions of U.S. Healthcare (e.g., common good, separation of Church and State, life, primacy of focus […]

The Plot Against Democracy
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The Plot Against Democracy

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by on Jun 12, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
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There’s no room in the Democrat Party for democrats.

Police Officers on Borough High Street, London, June 4, 2017
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Breaking Up With Mr. Islam

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by on Jun 08, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice, The Social Order
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This arranged marriage of ours with Islam is going very badly

The Double-Edged Sword of Infertility
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The Double-Edged Sword of Infertility

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by on May 26, 2017 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics, Parenting, The Feminine Genius
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The pain of infertility or impaired fertility comes in more than one form. The first is the obvious suffering of the couple who wants so badly to have a child but, for whatever reason, is unable to. The second is the judgment of others in their Catholic community. I’ve experienced this first-hand, despite having three […]

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National Day of Prayer 2017

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by on May 03, 2017 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017.

The Real Threat
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The Real Threat

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by on Apr 18, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics
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At the homily during a recent Sunday Mass, in a parish which I attended some years ago, the priest was in high dudgeon, almost hysterical about the actions of the current president in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Quoting the Protestant minister Dietrich Bonheoffer and Jesuit priest Alfred Delp, both murdered by the Nazis […]

The New Civil War
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The New Civil War

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by on Apr 08, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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The left expects everyone to accept its ideological authority.

London, Parliament, March 22, 2017
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Pray for Sanity

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by on Mar 27, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice
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Pray that common sense returns to politics.

Refugees Already 'Extremely Vetted' Should be Welcomed
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Refugees Already ‘Extremely Vetted’ Should be Welcomed

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by on Mar 08, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics
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In my work as a journalist, I try to personalize what is otherwise an ‘issue’ and apply universal principles of human rights to policies that impact human lives. That’s the case for many national and global news stories, breaking and current or ongoing. When President Donald Trump issued the Executive Order on immigration and refugees […]

"Don't Believe the Liberal Media"
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End the Media

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by on Jan 30, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The press corps is the embodiment of the old establishment.

House Bill on No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Is Stronger than Hyde Amendment
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House Bill on No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Is Stronger than Hyde Amendment

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by on Jan 27, 2017 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would permanently prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortion. The bill , titled the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Disclosure Act of 2017” (H.R. 7), would amend federal law to make the Hyde Amendment permanent. Currently, the Hyde […]

Prayers For Our Country
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Prayers For Our Country

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by on Jan 20, 2017 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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From the Roman Missal.

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Fall of the Fake News Crusade

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by on Jan 19, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics, On Media
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The news media is just another arm of a politicized entertainment industry.

Trump Faces a Different Sort of UN Reform
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Trump Faces a Different Sort of UN Reform

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by on Jan 06, 2017 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Holding the UN more accountable isn’t just about using the power of the President and Congress to withhold funds—as past Republican administrations have rightly but perhaps restrictively tended to do. The incoming U.S. administration and Congress have an immediate opportunity for real UN reform, but it means reining-in an ever more intrusive UN bureaucracy, especially […]

Federal Debt Interest
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Still a Bottomless Pit III

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by on Dec 30, 2016 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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Why isn’t this figure newsworthy?

The Castro Regime: Repression of the Rights to Life and Liberty
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The Castro Regime: Repression of the Rights to Life and Liberty

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by on Dec 27, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Freedom is never free. The passing of Fidel Castro is a keen reminder that many liberties so often taken for granted in the West, even as they are rapidly diminishing in the face of radical secularism, are still not a given for many. For over 55 years, the Castro regime perpetrated numerous human rights abuses. […]