Category: Law & Justice

Massachusetts Question 2: Dignity or Deception?
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Massachusetts Question 2: Dignity or Deception?

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by on Nov 05, 2012 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Health & Fitness, Law & Justice
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On the 6th of November, citizens of Massachusetts will face a critical vote. The choice people make on Question 2 is a choice that literally involves a life or death decision. The so-called “Death with Dignity Act” brings with it a dark deception. The citizens of Massachusetts are being asked to vote for or against the […]

Federal Courts Force Indiana, Arizona to Keep Funding Planned Parenthood
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Federal Courts Force Indiana, Arizona to Keep Funding Planned Parenthood

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by on Oct 25, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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Federal judges this week have blocked two states, Indiana and Arizona, from enforcing laws barring Medicaid payments to abortion providers. As a result, taxpayers in both states will be forced to continue funding Planned Parenthood and other institutions that provide abortions, provided the payments are earmarked for “family planning” and not elective abortions. Both states […]

Book Review: Indivisible, by James Robison and Jay W. Richards
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Book Review: Indivisible, by James Robison and Jay W. Richards

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by on Oct 22, 2012 in Creative Solidarity, Featured, Government & Politics, History, International Issues, Law & Justice, Leadership, Live in Christ, On Books, The Economy, The Social Order
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In these final few days of election season, wouldn’t it be a relief to read something informative, constructive, and positive? The political scene this year is filled with negativity and misinformation; yet, we are presented with two very clear choices, at least when it comes to the presidential race. The book Indivisible provides a positive […]

Marriage According to God or Man?
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Marriage According to God or Man?

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by on Oct 22, 2012 in Catechesis, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice, Marriage, Men, Parenting, The Catholic Family, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order, Women
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Editors note: This was given as a homily on Sunday, October 14th, 2012 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Brighton, MN. The gospel was for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, Mark 10:17-30. Recently I spoke with a senior at a Catholic high school and he was telling me that […]

Perverting Marriage Imperils Kids
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Perverting Marriage Imperils Kids

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by on Oct 18, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, Marriage
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Soon citizens in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington State will vote on whether to redefine marriage.  Perhaps the following article will help deter some voters from playing an accessory role in waging war against “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” In proportion as people plunge into practices which are, as the Catechism indicates, […]

Can the Government Veto a Sermon?
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Can the Government Veto a Sermon?

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by on Oct 09, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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Sunday, October 7, 2012 was “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.” It is based on a simple question: May the government filter, edit, or veto the contents of a sermon? No court has ever heard a case regarding whether the Internal Revenue Service can do so. Yet every day – and especially in these weeks prior to an […]

Supreme Court Shocks Life into Obamacare Challenge
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Supreme Court Shocks Life into Obamacare Challenge

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by on Oct 06, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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The emperor wears no clothes. The bloom is off the rose. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Pardon the barrage of stale metaphors, but it’s difficult to put into words the utter pasting Mitt Romney put on Barack Obama Wednesday night. Pat Buchanan called Romney’s “the finest debate performance” in 52 years “with […]

Christian Revolution Under Constantine: 1700th Anniversary Series, Part 4
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Christian Revolution Under Constantine: 1700th Anniversary Series, Part 4

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by on Sep 27, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice
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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 In late Spring, AD 312, Constantine’s victories at Susa and at Turin in northwestern Italy liberated Roman domains as far east as Milan, much to the joy of Christians and also of many pagans alienated from the co-Emperor, Maxentius.  Misrule by Maxentius in the Roman diocese of Italia had […]

Anti-Life Provisions of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law
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Anti-Life Provisions of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law

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by on Sep 20, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Pub.L. 111-148, enacted on March 23, 2010, substantially expands funding of abortions by federal tax dollars.  Federal tax dollars, of course, are your dollars, conscripted to serve the federal government’s purposes.  This article provides the nuts and bolts of one of the several ways this will happen […]

Trespassing Trial Humbles Abortion Mill
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Trespassing Trial Humbles Abortion Mill

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by on Sep 20, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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It is said that Planned Parenthood usually wins in court.  But not always.  Last month, thanks to a display of courage by Michael Ferman, abortion “rights” did not, for once, trump all other considerations. Ferman, age 34, is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and a former student of mine.  I have known him […]

Please, Profile Me!
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Please, Profile Me!

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by on Sep 11, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Okay, just for the record here is the profile. I am white, a US citizen, in my mid 50’s, a grandmother, and a practicing Catholic. Rosaries, prayer books, medals, scapulars and other such paraphernalia are from time to time located on my person.  I know a few other women who fit that profile and while […]

Reply Filed in HHS Mandate Case
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Reply Filed in HHS Mandate Case

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by on Sep 10, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) filed a 22-page Reply to the Government’s opposition of its motion for a Preliminary Injunction to stop implementation of the HHS mandate.  The Law Center’s motion was filed on behalf of Legatus, a nonprofit organization of Catholic business leaders and Michigan-based Weingartz Supply Company, and its owner Daniel Weingartz.  […]

Kansas City Bishop on Trial
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Kansas City Bishop on Trial

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by on Sep 06, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Law & Justice
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Thanks to media, American Catholics will soon be treated to another sad chapter in the story of clergy sex abuse. In fact, that may already have happened. Without little advance notice, the trial of Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City, Mo., for supposedly not moving fast enough to tell authorities about a troubled priest […]

Defeating the Islamo-‘Progressive’ Axis
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Defeating the Islamo-‘Progressive’ Axis

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by on Sep 02, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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There’s evidently a fine line between a “hate crime” and a BLT. The Reuters headline screamed: “Bacon found at NY Muslim celebration probed as possible hate crime.” I was expecting the subtitle: “Cops bring lettuce & tomato, dispose of evidence,” but to no avail. (Pork, of course, is verboten in Islamic culture. Don’t knock it, […]

Obama's Progress
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Obama’s Progress

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by on Aug 06, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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Try to define progressivism. In fact, ask progressives to try to define progressivism. All we really know is that they’re, well, progressing. They and their ideas and their politics are always changing, evolving. This means that what they believe and hold fast and dear today may not be what they believe and hold fast and […]

Corporate Exercise of Religion and Other Thoughts on Mandate Litigation
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Corporate Exercise of Religion and Other Thoughts on Mandate Litigation

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by on Aug 02, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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There has been a curious silence in the news and on the blogs about the preliminary injunction in Newland v. Sebelius.  True, there are some unique issues involving the nature of the plaintiffs, but the case may indicate the direction that courts which get over the ripeness hump and do reach the Religious Freedom Restoration Act […]

Book Review: <em>Eco-Tyranny</em>
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Book Review: Eco-Tyranny

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, On Books, The Economy
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In Eco-Tyranny, author Brian Sussman sounds a timely and important warning: The radical “greens” are not in retreat. With the defeat of cap-and-trade legislation in 2010 and the increasingly discredited alarmist theory of anthropogenic global warming, the greens may have lowered their public profile; however, with the full cooperation of the Obama administration, they are […]

The Government's Argument is Atrocious!
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The Government’s Argument is Atrocious!

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, MyChurchParish.com
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On Friday, a federal judge in Colorado granted a preliminary injunction barring the HHS mandate from taking effect against a small, family-run business that holds strong beliefs that abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization violate their religious faith. The Newland family owns and operates Hercules Industries, a private, for-profit HVAC equipment manufacturer.  Their 265 full-time employees […]

Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate
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Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate

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by on Jul 26, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, MyChurchParish.com
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The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced it has filed an emergency motion asking that Federal District Judge Robert H. Cleland of the Eastern District of Michigan stop the HHS Mandate which goes into effect on August 1, 2012.  The motion was filed late […]

Why the HHS Mandate is No Big Deal
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Why the HHS Mandate is No Big Deal

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by on Jul 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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[Editor’s note: In June, Mark Discher, Professor of Philosophy and Theology at The College of St. Mary Magdalen was asked to give a speech to the Massachusetts Citizens for Life annual convention on the HHS mandate. In his address, Dr. Discher masterfully placed the mandate into the context of the wider problem we are facing, […]

What We are Defending was Bought by Blood
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What We are Defending was Bought by Blood

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by on Jul 19, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, Vocations
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The Fortnight for Freedom may be over but we must continue to stand against the Health and Human Services Mandate to force Catholics to pay for contraception and abortion. There are many reasons to oppose this.  It makes a mockery of the First Amendment.  It pushes on an unsuspecting public birth control pills which many […]

The Obamacare Ruling: What it Means for America
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The Obamacare Ruling: What it Means for America

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by on Jul 05, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Health & Fitness, Law & Justice
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No matter how it is interpreted, the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obamacare was a landmark decision. On June 28th the Court narrowly voted 5-4 that the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare” is a constitutional law properly legislated by congress. Surprising many was Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the usual suspects from […]

Can the Supreme Court Decision be a Win-win for Republicans?
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Can the Supreme Court Decision be a Win-win for Republicans?

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by on Jun 28, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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Chief Justice Roberts sided with the Democrat-appointed four Justices ( generally considered “left-leaning”) and upheld the law) basically, looked at cynically, by playing word games (“mandate” vs. “tax”). The four dissenters wanted to strike down the law in its entirety. It was a 5-4 Obama “victory.” I have said all along that either way, opponents of the law […]

Supreme Court Upholds Obama Health Care Law
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Supreme Court Upholds Obama Health Care Law

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by on Jun 28, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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Kathleen Gilbert contributed to this breaking story. The Supreme Court has ruled the insurance requirement embedded in President Obama’s federal health care law is constitutional in a 5-4 decision Thursday morning. The High Court’s swing vote came from Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed by President George W. Bush. He joined the court’s liberal […]