Category: Society & Common Good

Boomers vs. Millenials
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Boomers vs. Millenials

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by on Sep 30, 2014 in Featured, Health & Fitness, The Economy, The Social Order, Those in Need
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There have been countless recent articles analyzing the millennial generation and its distinctive characteristics, but too many are ignoring an upcoming conflict that could define the generation: the aging baby boomers are going to be a big problem for millennials and their parents in the coming decades. In the U.S., the baby boomers are nearing […]

First Lady Laura Bush, October 24, 2007
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A Nigerian Prince Called Islam

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by on Sep 30, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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We rarely know a thing for what it is.

Notice - Intolerance Will Not Be Tolerated
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The Liberal Religion of “Tolerance”

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by on Sep 29, 2014 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
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This selective tolerance often excludes the religious.

Celebrate Perversity
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Perversity of Righteousness

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by on Sep 27, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
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180-Degree Moral Shift

The Failing Integrity of Marriage Comes Home
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The Failing Integrity of Marriage Comes Home

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by on Sep 24, 2014 in Featured, Marriage, MyChurchParish.com, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
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Despite our vigilance, the dissolution of the marriage ethic and the chaos that it creates have arrived on our doorstep. We live in an America that has become unmoored from nature and reality, where justice and mercy have been rejected and self-serving pleasure reigns. Living in a state where the spurious “marriage” of homosexuals remains […]

Candle in Darkness - Earth Hour
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Moral Chaos Should Strengthen Your Faith

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by on Sep 23, 2014 in Featured, MyChurchParish.com, The Feminine Genius, The Social Order
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While many pious people are wringing their hands over the popular culture and wondering if God will save his people, I find that the moral decay and preposterous incongruities we witness daily actually reinforce all I believe about Divine Revelation. What else is to be expected when God is removed from the Public Square? It […]

Priests for Life Case Against HHS Mandate Moves Forward
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Priests for Life Case Against HHS Mandate Moves Forward

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by on Sep 23, 2014 in Columnists, Featured, Law & Justice
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The lawsuit of Priests for Life against the Obama Administration’s HHS mandate continues to move forward in the nation’s second highest court. On Tuesday, we filed a supplemental brief with the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals addressing two key developments that have occurred since oral arguments were heard by that court in May. […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: A Hospitable Woman
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Ode to Feminine Genius: A Hospitable Woman

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by on Sep 16, 2014 in Featured, Live in Christ, The Feminine Genius, Those in Need, Women
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Hospitality really isn’t having folks over for dinner or inviting ladies to tea (although I love to do this); it isn’t making sure our homes are in decent enough order to welcome drop-ins (although this is a good idea). It is much more radical. Much more uncomfortable. Much more beautiful. Reprinted with permission from Catholic […]

Poem: "Storming Falluja, Ten Years Ago"
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Poem: “Storming Falluja, Ten Years Ago”

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by on Sep 15, 2014 in International Issues, Poetry
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Storming Falluja, Ten Years Ago Fallujans flee, of your fighters be rid, Your city, your honor our GI’s demand, We’ll find them, we’ll kill them, they cannot be hid, Uprising is doomed to sink in the sand. Your town is besieged; we storm and we blast, By land and by air, with engines of war […]

Do We Have a War Strategy for ISIS?
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Do We Have a War Strategy for ISIS?

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by on Sep 15, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice
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No efforts can overcome a flawed strategy.

Preparing for Philadelphia 2015: A Liberty Bell for the Family
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Preparing for Philadelphia 2015: A Liberty Bell for the Family

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by on Sep 12, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage, The Social Order
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A year from now, believers from around the world will gather with the Pope in Philadelphia to celebrate God’s gift of the family. Marked by the theme Love is our Mission: The Family Fully Alive, this will be the Eighth World Meeting  of Families. Established by Saint John Paul II, these regular world gatherings began […]

Thirteen Years, Onward
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Thirteen Years, Onward

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by on Sep 11, 2014 in Featured, Live in Christ, Society & Common Good
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Christians know that evil won’t win in the end, yet that knowledge sometimes seems small comfort when the end seems far from sight. Scripture tells us that Christ will come, angels will gather all humanity, and judgment will be final. Yet until that triumphant day, we carry the pilgrim’s palm, not the victor’s wreath, hoping […]

Syrian Bishop Cries Out: 'Help My People Stay'
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Syrian Bishop Cries Out: ‘Help My People Stay’

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by on Aug 25, 2014 in Featured, International Issues, Those in Need
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“We are strong in our faith, rooted in our history. We have been here for 2000 years. We refuse to go!” Iraq and Syria are in turmoil. In Iraq, Islamic radicals of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are threatening to plunge the country back into civil war. In Syria, a ruthless regime […]

Of Tanks and Men
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Of Tanks and Men

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by on Aug 22, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Certain images leave a lasting impression on us. The photograph of the lone young Chinese man in Tiananmen Square in 1989, standing his ground and asserting his individual human dignity as he blocked the progress of a column of army tanks is one of those images. The man was called “tank man” in the media. […]

What You Need To Know About ISIS Right Now: A Primer
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What You Need To Know About ISIS Right Now: A Primer

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by on Aug 21, 2014 in Featured, International Issues
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It’s a sad fact that ISIS has become part of our vocabulary, but many of us still don’t know a lot about this terrorist movement. At Aleteia, news editor John Burger spent time with some people knowledgeable abaout this group, and created a top 10 list. Burger spoke to Father Elias D. Mallon, external Affairs […]

Iraq's Christians Facing a Human Catastrophe
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Iraq’s Christians Facing a Human Catastrophe

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by on Aug 11, 2014 in Featured, International Issues, Those in Need
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“They are facing a human catastrophe and risk a real genocide. They need, water, food, shelter…” These were the words of the leader of Iraq’s biggest Catholic community as he made an impassioned plea for help to the international community following the fall of Iraq’s largest Christian town on the night of August 6th-7th. In […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: a Diligent Woman
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Ode to Feminine Genius: a Diligent Woman

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by on Aug 08, 2014 in Featured, The Feminine Genius, Women
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A Valiant Woman uses her time wisely. She works diligently to complete her daily tasks. She does not spend time dwelling on those things that do not please the Lord. She looks for ways to be organized and finds solutions to home keeping. Proverbs 31: 19, “She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her […]

The Great War at 100
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The Great War at 100

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by on Aug 03, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice
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The lamps are lit again and Europe is at peace; but it is the peace of senescence.

Why Population Control is Bad Foreign Policy
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Why Population Control is Bad Foreign Policy

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by on Jul 31, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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Anne Roback Morse also contributed to this article. The language of the e-mails is hyperbolic and hate-filled. They come from population control groups that are indignant about the House of Representatives Billwhich would re-institute the Mexico City Policy. They call it a “Mean-spirited, anti-women agenda.” And they say it’s “Playing ping-pong politics with women’s lives,” “Out of […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: A Frugal Woman
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Ode to Feminine Genius: A Frugal Woman

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by on Jul 30, 2014 in Featured, Marriage, Personal Finance, The Feminine Genius, Women
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A Frugal woman. Sounds kinda boring, doesn’t it? Like that woman wearing an ill-fitting jeans jumper that looks like it’s from 30 years ago, buying only day-old bread, never getting anything nice or new, and spouting off about how everyone should grow and grind their own flour, like her. Um yeah, I really don’t want to […]

Targeted intimidation: First attack on Catholic nuns in Bangladesh
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Targeted intimidation: First attack on Catholic nuns in Bangladesh

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by on Jul 17, 2014 in Featured, International Issues, Those in Need
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For the first time, Catholic nuns have been the target of a concerted, brutal attack in Bangladesh involving a late-night attack by dozens of men that lasted over an hour. “50 to 60 armed men attacked the Boldipukur mission on July 7 at 2 a.m., and specifically the presbytery, the convent and the hospital,” Bishop […]

After Hobby Lobby Comes Priests for Life -- Why We Are Confident
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After Hobby Lobby Comes Priests for Life — Why We Are Confident

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by on Jul 16, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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On Monday, June 30, Priests for Life expressed satisfaction with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case. Upon further analysis of that decision, we continue to be encouraged by it and by its implications for our own case, which has already been argued in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, which could issue […]

The Triumph of Law Over Ideology
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The Triumph of Law Over Ideology

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by on Jul 10, 2014 in Featured, Law & Justice
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It’s been a week since the Supreme Court issued their ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, and there appears to be no end in sight to the Left’s outrage over the outcome. As expected, given the controversial nature of the issue at hand, most of the ire is reflexive and purely visceral. It’s unlikely that […]

The Peril of Power
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The Peril of Power

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by on Jul 07, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics
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“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” Colossians 3:1-2. As a Christian, I’m quite familiar with this passage, and always took it as an admonition against the kind of […]