Category: Society & Common Good

Re-imagining Shepherds
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Re-imagining Shepherds

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by on Nov 15, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice, Live in Christ, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
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What comes to your mind when you hear the familiar Bible passage from Luke 2:8-10, where the angels appear to the shepherds to proclaim the birth of a savior and His peace? Do you picture cute, little, cherub-faced boys and girls? Do you imagine shepherds that look like those sappy Precious Moments figurines you see […]

Executive Privilege: The 2012 Election and the Power of Incumbency
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Executive Privilege: The 2012 Election and the Power of Incumbency

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by on Nov 14, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Mitt Romney lost the presidential race by only two percentage points. If the election had been held just a week earlier, when he was up in the polls, things might have been different. Nonetheless, Mitt Romney lost, and now a bitter debate has ensued over the future of the Republican Party, with liberal Democrats happily […]

Civic Illiteracy Won the White House for Obama
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Civic Illiteracy Won the White House for Obama

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Columnists, Education, Featured, Government & Politics
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It was only 7:15 last Tuesday evening when my daughter, who works in conservative journalism, texted me to say the election was lost. For a painful four hours, I watched the results confirm her early analysis. When it was clear the president would be re-elected and Republican challenger Mitt Romney had lost, I took an […]

How Conservatives Lost Women Voters
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How Conservatives Lost Women Voters

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Late last year when a presidential primary candidate was asked how he was going to reach women voters, he responded that he was polling well with women. Oh, oh. He seemed clueless about what most women really want. Once again, women were being taken for granted and once again we could lose – big time. […]

Two Percent Economic Growth: Real or Apparent?
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Two Percent Economic Growth: Real or Apparent?

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Featured, The Economy
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The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has just announced that GDP grew at a rate of 2 percent during the last three months. Keynesians like Paul Krugman should be happy, and the so-called “market monetarists” like Scott Sumner should be happy. When we mistake GDP for the economy, a 2 percent quarterly growth rate […]

The Battle for Life and Family Continues
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The Battle for Life and Family Continues

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Government & Politics
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Last Tuesday night I watched in disbelief as a slim majority of Americans voted to give Barack Hussein Obama a second term as president, but in the clear light of morning it is clear how this debacle happened—and what the pro-life movement needs to focus on now. I do not mean to make light of […]

God Will Not Be Mocked
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God Will Not Be Mocked

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Featured, The Social Order
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln America has forsaken her first love. She has finally, and fully, given herself over to a licentious Lothario with whom she has increasingly flirted since her youth. He is sin […]

Forced Abortion on Trial in Nevada
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Forced Abortion on Trial in Nevada

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Law & Justice
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‘End this pregnancy and tie her tubes.’ That was the stark advice given by a a court-summoned doctor in a possible forced abortion case involving a mentally handicapped woman in Nevada, according to a transcript of a Nov. 1 hearing obtained by LifeSiteNews. Judge Egan Walker of Nevada’s 2nd District Court is holding evidentiary hearings […]

A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’
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A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’

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by on Nov 12, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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The policy proposal known as “same-sex marriage” is actually a proposal to redefine marriage. Instead of being a gender-based institution oriented toward the procreation of children and the good of the spouses, what is called “same-sex marriage” makes marriage into a genderless institution, oriented toward the good of adults only. Any possible negative consequences for […]

Obama’s Election Mandate, and Ours
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Obama’s Election Mandate, and Ours

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by on Nov 09, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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What does an incumbent elected by a landslide (331-206 electoral votes if Fla. goes his way) get to do for a second term? Anything he wants, especially with John Boehner at the helm for the Republicans in the House of Representatives. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Boehner did an about-face and declared that Obamacare […]

America's Fundamental Transformation Wordle
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America’s Fundamental Transformation

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by on Nov 07, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Timing is everything in politics. For four years, I angered conservatives by insisting Barack Obama would get reelected. I figured that an electorate willing to elect a man with ideas and a record that far to the left in 2008 would do so again. I began changing my view, however, after the first presidential debate. […]

Cardinal Dolan Congratulates President Obama On Re-Election
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Cardinal Dolan Congratulates President Obama On Re-Election

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by on Nov 07, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Promises bishops will continue to work to defend life, marriage, religious freedom Urges President to work for most vulnerable, including unborn, poor, immigrants Asks for restoration of civility to the public order Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, congratulated President Barack Obama, November 7, the day after […]

Time to Temper the Political Discourse
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Time to Temper the Political Discourse

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by on Nov 06, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Someone should take a poll asking Americans how they feel about polling. I’m pretty sure our shared distaste for it is one thing about which nearly all of us would agree. Of all the polling data released in the week leading up to Tuesday’s election, the one that struck me as most revealing came from […]

A Most Momentous Election
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A Most Momentous Election

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by on Nov 06, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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My parish in northern Virginia has [been engaged in] 55 hours of continuous Eucharistic Adoration and Prayer-including Benediction — “in anticipation of the General Election,” [starting] Sunday, November 4, ending today, Election Day, about the time the polls will close. Catholics never, never endorse any candidate from the pulpit as happens in some Protestant churches. Yet, […]

Avoid the Election Day Traps! – Part Two
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Avoid the Election Day Traps! – Part Two

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by on Nov 06, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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When Election Day arrives, so do the traps that come with it. In my previous column I examined four of them, and here I present five more. Be sure you avoid these pitfalls, and help others avoid them, too! 5. I’ll show them! — using the election to vent our anger. Sometimes individuals or groups […]

Obama’s HHS ‘Grooming’ Children for Sex
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Obama’s HHS ‘Grooming’ Children for Sex

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by on Nov 05, 2012 in Education, Featured, The Social Order
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(Warning: The following contains disturbing information of a sexual nature.) My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson My dear friend and colleague Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law professor at Liberty University School of Law, recently guest lectured during “Sexual Behavior and the Law,” a […]

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 […]

The Greater Evil: The Third Party Candidate
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The Greater Evil: The Third Party Candidate

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by on Nov 04, 2012 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured, Government & Politics
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Never before in the history of our country have we faced such a monumental and critical decision as in the 2012 Presidential election.  The transformation we face is something that may very well permanently alter the very structure and freedoms our nation has enjoyed for over 200 years to the point where we may never […]

Gov. Mitt Romney vs. Pres. Barack Obama
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What Are We Complaining About?

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by on Nov 04, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Tired of all the political advertisements? I can profess some sympathy, yet I think we had better stand up, look around, and thank God for them. I mean, what are the alternatives? Would we rather live in a country where they don’t bother with elections? That seems to me to be the only realistic alternative. […]

Practical Economics Wordle
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Practical Economics: How Things Work, Why There is Room for Morality, Where to Go from Here

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by on Nov 01, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Economy
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There is a great deal of debate over the economy in the current Presidential election. Indeed, the Republican ticket has focused the election on economic issues, and particularly on government spending, by adding Paul Ryan as its Vice Presidential candidate. This enables the Democratic Party to take shots at Republican economic ideas, in the hope […]

Critiquing the Campaign
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Critiquing the Campaign

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by on Nov 01, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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As the 2012 campaign passes into history, it’s not too soon to note some of the genuine horrors of this increasingly strange way of choosing a president. First, though, let me repeat a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic Democracy in America that I cited many months ago when the campaign was heating up. The […]

Vote Your Vision
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Vote Your Vision

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by on Oct 31, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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President Obama has said many times that this election represents a choice between two very different visions for America.  Do we want to go back to the same policies that got us in so much trouble in the first place or do we want a fresh start for America, a new vision leading to a […]

A Photo Montage of Tolerance
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A Photo Montage of Tolerance

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by on Oct 31, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
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Every time someone mentions the fact that individuals have been sued or fired because of their beliefs about marriage, those trying to redefine marriage scoff, “Impossible.”   Every time we mention the fact that children have been taught about same-sex “marriage” in public schools they’re outraged by the lies and distortions.  And when they hear from […]

Unmusical Pro-Obama Ditty is Seriously Laughable
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Unmusical Pro-Obama Ditty is Seriously Laughable

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by on Oct 30, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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About the new video from a group that calls itself the Future Children Project, which promotes its pro-Obama message in a song performed by a children’s choir: You people must be joking. Really. This agitprop is so bad I thought it was political satire. It didn’t seem possible that anyone would seriously expect American voters […]