Category: Society & Common Good

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 […]

How to Kill a Billion People -- Part 3: "Precautionary" CO2 Policy and Food Crisis
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How to Kill a Billion People — Part 3: “Precautionary” CO2 Policy and Food Crisis

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by on Jul 18, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, International Issues
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 Part I explained that almost half the world’s people are dependent for their food on industrially fixed nitrogen fertilizer, and that nitrogen fertilizer production is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.  Part II explored several plausible mechanisms by which forced suppression of CO2 would induce food shortages and starvation in the poorest nations.  Among the key mechanisms discussed […]

"Story of Stuff" Videos Aim Stealth Indoctrination at Students
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“Story of Stuff” Videos Aim Stealth Indoctrination at Students

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by on Jul 18, 2012 in Columnists, Education, Featured, The Economy
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Yesterday, I noted a sure sign that summer is nearly over: There were commercials on TV for ingredients to make school lunches. Already, the folks at Oscar Mayer are offering suggestions for how to make a lunch that kids will find nutritious and delicious, though they don’t offer any advice in the ads on how […]

Liberation Theology: Two Prefects, Two Views
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Liberation Theology: Two Prefects, Two Views

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by on Jul 17, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured, The Social Order
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If you’re not familiar with “liberation theology,” chances are you’ll be hearing more about it in the weeks and months ahead as Archbishop Gerhard Mueller, the newly appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), is said to be a student, friend and supporter of Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the “father” of […]

The Awakened Giant Likes Tea
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The Awakened Giant Likes Tea

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by on Jul 16, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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It’s often said, “Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it.” Democrats got it all right. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts – once counted among the constitutional originalists on the high court – has granted President Obama’s supreme wish. By inexplicably siding with the court’s left wing and upholding […]

Egypt's Real Ruler: Mohamed Tantawi
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Egypt’s Real Ruler: Mohamed Tantawi

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by on Jul 12, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, International Issues
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What does it mean that Mohamed Morsi is president of Egypt? Speaking for the American consensus, Bret Stephens recently argued in the Wall Street Journal against the consolation that the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory “is merely symbolic, since the army still has the guns.” He concluded that “Egypt is lost.” We shall argue to the contrary: […]

A Divided Nation: Is America "Coming Apart?"
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A Divided Nation: Is America “Coming Apart?”

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by on Jul 12, 2012 in Featured, On Books, The Economy, The Social Order
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Best-selling author and controversial social scientist Charles Murray is back in the news. This time it’s because of his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. In Coming Apart, Murray deftly wields both statistical data and anecdotal evidence to document the wholesale abandonment of the ideals that for two centuries defined the […]

The Gangs in Chicago Reflect Wrong Values
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The Gangs in Chicago Reflect Wrong Values

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by on Jul 12, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Parenting
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For a man known in political and media circles for his prodigious application of the “f-word” (as a noun, an adjective, a verb, an adverb — most likely all eight parts of speech), Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sounds like the veritable schoolmarm when recently scolding that city’s murderous gangs. In an interview with CBS anchor […]

Feng Jianmei: The Unanticipated Impact of One Forced-Abortion
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Feng Jianmei: The Unanticipated Impact of One Forced-Abortion

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by on Jul 11, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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One of the general sessions at this summer’s 2012 NRLC national convention was aglow with energy and alight with enthusiasm. You could feel a powerful swelling of emotions as pro-life champion Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, roused their audience at a session titled, “Where Are All the […]

How to Kill a Billion People -- Part 2: Indirect Effect of Greenhouse Gas Suppression
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How to Kill a Billion People — Part 2: Indirect Effect of Greenhouse Gas Suppression

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by on Jul 11, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, International Issues
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Part I demonstrated that the production and use of synthetic nitrogen is a substantial contributor of atmospheric greenhouse gases. It was also shown that almost half of the world’s population is dependent on synthetic nitrogen, produced by the Haber-Bosch process, for survival. It was concluded that greenhouse gas suppression policy and the Green Revolution, which […]

Concluding the Fortnight: Now What?
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Concluding the Fortnight: Now What?

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by on Jul 05, 2012 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Government & Politics, Health & Fitness
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The Holy Hours and prayers have all been said, the letters written to legislators, the blogs have been written, the teach-ins have played themselves out, and the church bells have all been rung. Now What? Where do we go from here, and will our bishops continue to lead us along the way? These are the […]

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 […]

How to Kill a Billion People -- Part 1: The Food-Nitrogen-CO2 Nexus
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How to Kill a Billion People — Part 1: The Food-Nitrogen-CO2 Nexus

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by on Jul 04, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, International Issues
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In his 1986 book The Machinery of Nature, population control advocate Paul Ehrlich cited John Holdren, President Obama’s “science czar,” as stating that global warming from CO2 could cause the deaths through starvation of as many as a billion people by 2020. Since climate models haven’t yet successfully predicted local climate-change dynamics vital to crop assessment even in […]

Be Not Afraid, Fellow Catholics
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Be Not Afraid, Fellow Catholics

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by on Jul 03, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Like you, I don’t like the Supreme Court’s ruling saying that Obamacare is Constitutional.  But don’t lose heart.  God works in mysterious ways.  In the words of Pope John Paul II, “Be not afraid”. First, the question at hand was not the religious liberty issue embedded in the Kathleen Sebelius’ HHS Mandate requiring Catholics and […]

Elections 2012: Legitimate "Overthrow" of Governments
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Elections 2012: Legitimate “Overthrow” of Governments

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by on Jun 29, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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The time has come. From now to November 6, a top priority of the Church and the pro-life movement has to be informing and registering voters and then getting them to the voting booths to take part in this year’s elections! Once again, the entire House of Representatives, one-third of the US Senate, and the […]

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 […]

The Context of Our Present Crisis: <em>Sons of Cain</em>
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The Context of Our Present Crisis: Sons of Cain

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by on Jun 28, 2012 in Featured, MyChurchParish.com, On Books, The Social Order
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As I write this, the country awaits a decision by the Supreme Court regarding the scope of government power and intrusion into all of our lives for the foreseeable future. This is a crisis. It is not a crisis that will be resolved by the Supreme Court’s decision, regardless of the decision. Within our generation, […]

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 […]

Obamacare: Will Supreme Court Have the Last Word?
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Obamacare: Will Supreme Court Have the Last Word?

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by on Jun 27, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Law & Justice
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Anticipation is building to a fever pitch in and around the nation’s capital as various types of leaders jockey for position and posture while waiting for that big moment when the Supreme Court reaches a decision on Obamacare. The questions remain: What will be the fallout and what can we expect? There are three scenarios […]

What is Community, Really?
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What is Community, Really?

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by on Jun 26, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Marriage, The Social Order
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Lately, I’ve been involved in a number of ongoing efforts and conversations regarding community. Basically, we’ve been trying to get at the crux of what community really is and how to live it, and that’s got me yearning to dig deeper into the subject. We hear the word “community” all the time, used in many […]

Rules and the Church: Love 'em, or Hate 'em
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Rules and the Church: Love ’em, or Hate ’em

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by on Jun 23, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, MyChurchParish.com, The Social Order
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A friend wrote me: I’ve been talking to someone who is interested in what the Church teaches but has a BIG problem with the Church hierarchy.  Basic argument:  If we love God we keep His commandments. Keeping His commandments out of love is BETTER than keeping them out of fear. And following God’s rules are […]

Halftime in Washington State: My Memoire of the Marriage War
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Halftime in Washington State: My Memoire of the Marriage War

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by on Jun 21, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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In 32 States We the People of the United States have managed to bring the issue of traditional marriage to a vote.  So far we’re batting 1000.  But if a State exists in the USA where same-sex-marriage might win approval from a majority of the voters, that electorate is out west in Washington. The culture […]

How Religion Fosters Freedom
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How Religion Fosters Freedom

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by on Jun 21, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Today begins the U.S. Catholic bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom,” a two-week period of prayer and social action organized in response to President Barack Obama’s contraception mandate. Rallies and prayer vigils for religious liberty are planned in nearly 100 dioceses across America. If the virtual blackout of last month’s anti-mandate lawsuits is any indication, though, national […]