Category: Society & Common Good

Book Review: <em>Liberty: The God that Failed</em>
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Book Review: Liberty: The God that Failed

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by on Feb 13, 2013 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, On Books
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The narrative some have come to trust from talk radio or from public personalities like Pat Buchanan, Justice Antonin Scalia or libertarians such as Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell, is that it is in our best interest to return to the vision of the American Founding Fathers, who, in their estimate, were God-fearing men, lovers […]

Vatican and Global Financial Contexts of Pope's Resignation
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Vatican and Global Financial Contexts of Pope’s Resignation

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by on Feb 12, 2013 in Featured, The Economy
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Today the Vatican announced that its ability to process credit card transactions, interrupted since January 1 by a decision of the Bank of Italy, had been restored. The renewed access to international financial networks comes one day after Pope Benedict announced that he will step down from his office as successor of Peter on February […]

When There Was Romance
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When There Was Romance

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by on Feb 12, 2013 in Featured, Music, The Social Order
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Hey, pallie, what the heck happened to romance? I use the word “pallie” in deference to the great Dean Martin. A few summers ago, just before the annual Dean Martin Festival in Dino’s home town of Steubenville, Ohio, I decided to compare today’s hits with his. I started with the No. 1 song on Billboard […]

Abraham Lincoln - Etching of Face - Photo November 8, 1863 - USPS Bicentennial Stamp
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Would Abraham Lincoln Be a Democrat Today?

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by on Feb 12, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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Would America’s 16th president be a 21st-century Democrat?

Obama Development Council Full of Abortion Advocates
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Obama Development Council Full of Abortion Advocates

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by on Feb 11, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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President Obama’s appointments last month to his Global Development Council signal his intent to prioritize abortion over necessary life-saving health issues. Obama established the Presidents Global Development Council by Executive Order a year ago and it includes up to twelve experts from private/non-profit/academic and philanthropic sectors.  Run by USAID, it will advise the president and senior administration […]

Weekly Wits
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Weekly Wits 2/8/13

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by on Feb 08, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Humor, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Germany, the Morning-After Pill, and the Catholic Church
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Germany, the Morning-After Pill, and the Catholic Church

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by on Feb 08, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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A drama has been unfolding in Germany over the last month that has seen the leading conservative prelate in the country, Cologne’s Cardinal Joachim Meisner, seem to suggest that it is permissible in Catholic hospitals to administer the morning-after pill (MAP) to rape victims. The Bishops of Germany will be discussing the matter further at […]

Union vs. Constitution: Farewell to Apostate America, Part 4
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Union vs. Constitution: Farewell to Apostate America, Part 4

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by on Feb 06, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice
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In 1961, three months before Barack Obama’s birth, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to members of the media.  There is, said he, “little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.”[1]   Does JFK’s assertion apply today?  In my judgment it is both pertinent and accurate, given […]

Progressives Embrace Moral and Medical Schizophrenia
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Progressives Embrace Moral and Medical Schizophrenia

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by on Feb 05, 2013 in Featured, The Social Order
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“Your freedom is likely to be someone else’s harm.” So says bioethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center, responding to the recent controversy over provisions in Obamacare that penalize smokers.   In the era of the Bloomberg ban on Big Gulps, the proper role, if any, that government should have in the lifestyle decisions of […]

Obama Admin Releases Revised Rules for HHS Mandate
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Obama Admin Releases Revised Rules for HHS Mandate

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by on Feb 01, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Legal analysts are scrambling today to make sense of new regulations released by the Obama administration that purport to provide a broader opt-out for religious organizations opposed to the HHS birth control mandate. However, conservative groups are approaching the revised rules warily, after a previous “accommodation” announced by the Obama administration was widely denounced as […]

The Latest Excuse for Population Control: Terrorists
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The Latest Excuse for Population Control: Terrorists

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by on Jan 31, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Here it is again. That nasty theory that certain populations (i.e. people of color) need to be culled at any cost, using “drastic” measures, is being touted on the webpages of the respected journal Foreign Policy. The excuse this time is to reduce terrorists. And the target is people in Mali – the very people […]

The Roe Enigma: What the Pew Survey Tells Us
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The Roe Enigma: What the Pew Survey Tells Us

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by on Jan 31, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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On January 16, in preparation for the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Pew Research Foundation issued the results of a 1,502 person survey dealing with abortion and the attitudes of those surveyed. The findings are of interest for many reasons, including the level of ignorance that has overcome the discussion of decriminalized abortion over the course […]

Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs (Part II)
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Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs (Part II)

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by on Jan 31, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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Despite the genuine good will of many of those who work to create equal opportunities for men and women, it cannot be ignored that there are more insidious ends in play by feminist ideologues. Historically, there has been a close working relationship between Marxist and feminists, and thus the dialectic used to understand economic history […]

A Call to Conscience
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A Call to Conscience

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by on Jan 30, 2013 in Featured, Law & Justice, MyChurchParish.com
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“Theological courage calls the inner-man to ignore his buckling knees and take theologically driven stances that, while potentially controversial, are righteous in nature.”  So write Owen Strachen and Andrew Walker in a recent article discussing Hobby Lobby’s stance against Obamacare’s onerous trampling of religious liberty.   The idea of martyrdom, be it physical, social, or […]

Human Rights Court Condones Killing Unborn Children in Latin America
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Human Rights Court Condones Killing Unborn Children in Latin America

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by on Jan 30, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues, Reproductive Technology
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The decision is being called Latin America’s Roe v. Wade A few days before Christmas, the inter-American Court of Human Rights (IAHR Court) issued the worst judgment in its history. The case concerned Costa Rica’s law banning in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, but the judgment went far beyond this. The IAHR Court’s decision severely limited the […]

Learning to Love Sequestration
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Learning to Love Sequestration

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by on Jan 30, 2013 in Featured, The Economy
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Paul Ryan says it’s going to happen, the sequestration, that is. One can hardly imagine any alternative scenario, in which Democrats and Republicans work it all out, and come out singing Kumbaya with a deal to avert the workings of the automatic cuts, share and share alike, to domestic and defense discretionary spending. Certainly, it would be better a) […]

Is America’s House Divided Again?
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Is America’s House Divided Again?

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by on Jan 28, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
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Having just viewed Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” and knowing that Lincoln’s birthday is approaching, it seemed fitting to ponder one of Lincoln’s most famous speeches, and perhaps a lesson for Americans today. On June 17, 1858, Lincoln gave his famous “House Divided” address while being nominated to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. Lincoln […]

Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs
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Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs

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by on Jan 26, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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With the recent declaration by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it would seem that there is an indisputable decision to allow women to serve in combat units in the future. To argue to the contrary might be an exercise in futility—much like closing the barn door after the horses have bolted—but this is not so. […]

The Supreme Court Looks at Marriage and Gender
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The Supreme Court Looks at Marriage and Gender

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by on Jan 25, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, Marriage, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
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Defenders of traditional marriage may not believe it, but the Supreme Court’s apparent intention to decide two important same-sex marriage cases by midyear may be a stroke of good fortune for their side. This timing means the Supreme Court’s first head-on tangle with this issue almost certainly will come before President Obama gets an opportunity […]

Weekly Wits
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Weekly Wits 1/25/13

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by on Jan 25, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Humor, Life Issues & Bioethics
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What Hungary and Poland Can Teach Us about a Post-Roe World
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What Hungary and Poland Can Teach Us about a Post-Roe World

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by on Jan 25, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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No democratic nation has ever voted in the majority to legalize abortion as such. Not one. Legalized abortion is always imposed by totalitarian or authoritarian regimes, or by elites who manufacture court cases designed to reverse duly created laws that actually protect innocent human beings. As the death toll rises in those nations that have […]

Two Women are Behind Legalized Abortion in America: Now Both of Them Want it Reversed
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Two Women are Behind Legalized Abortion in America: Now Both of Them Want it Reversed

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by on Jan 24, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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In the debate over abortion in the United States, two women’s names appear more frequently than any others: Jane Roe and Mary Doe, the plaintiffs in the companion 1973 Supreme Court cases that legalized abortion in the country. With the 40th anniversary of those two cases – Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton – this month, news media […]

Pres. Ronald Reagan
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The End of the Reagan Era?

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by on Jan 23, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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With Barack Obama’s second inauguration, liberals are touting an altogether new epoch: the end of the Reagan era. Unfortunately, I believe they are largely correct. We are witnessing a period of left-wing ascendance, marked by gay marriage, forced taxpayer funding of abortion, an exploding government class, and big government. As to the latter, Ronald Reagan […]

The Inauguration and the March for Life: A Message for America
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The Inauguration and the March for Life: A Message for America

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by on Jan 22, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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Just yesterday, I received the homily of a pastor here in my home diocese that spoke powerfully of the strange juxtaposition of the two national events happening this week. Obviously, as of this writing, the first of these events, the presidential inauguration, has already occurred, but when we compare it to the second of these […]