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A People Who Can’t Say “No”

A People Who Can’t Say “No”

The annual celebrations of the Church are her way of bringing the temporal and the eternal into conversation, allowing us to, if you will, listen in to what Our Lord is telling the Church, again. Last Friday’s Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is another such occasion, an especially poignant one for […]

Weekly Wits

Weekly Wits: 6/7/13

Jun 8 13 • 0 comments

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Remembering the Stars of One's Life

Remembering the Stars of One’s Life

Jun 8 13 • 0 comments

Some nights, when there are no clouds, I look up at the night sky hoping to see so many twinkling stars. But the lights of the city are bright where I live. They can obscure the lights of the heavens and thus make it difficult to notice anything more than the most brilliant of stars. […]

Poem: "Mum"

Poem: “Mum”

Jun 7 13 • 0 comments

Mum (written as a tribute to a mother upon her death overseas by her priest son on assignment here in America. Posted with permission from her son.) My Mum is gone The sad words say. Gone is she on this darkest of days. Brightness no more will dwell upon me. My heart is gone with […]

Enthroning the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Our Family

Enthroning the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Our Family

Jun 7 13 • 0 comments

For a parent, there is nothing more humbling than understanding that God has entrusted us with the care of his precious little ones.  Nothing in life makes us realize the enormity of our responsibility as well as the reality of our inability as when our newborn is first placed in our arms.  It is the […]

Personal Freedom and the Common Good

Personal Freedom and the Common Good

Jun 7 13 • 1 comment

On June 5th 2007 George Delury (74) committed suicide. For those readers who don’t remember him, Delury gained notoriety for the 1995 assisting the suicide of his wife, Myrna Lebov (52) at their Manhattan apartment. Although euthanasia advocates initially expressed confidence that Lebov had not been coerced, nothing could have been further from the truth. […]

Supreme Court Allows DNA Collection After an Arrest

Supreme Court Allows DNA Collection After an Arrest

Jun 6 13 • 0 comments

This week the Supreme Court decided that it is not a violation of the 4th Amendment for law enforcement to take a DNA sample from people who are arrested. The Court said that a cheek swab was no different than mug shots or fingerprinting; its purpose is to identify the person in custody. From the […]

Enduring Obnoxious Behavior

Enduring Obnoxious Behavior

Jun 6 13 • 1 comment

To: Marybeth From: Bracing myself for obnoxious relatives Summer is coming, and that means it’s time for our annual family reunion, a full week at the beach where I will once again spend several days surrounded by some of the worst parents I know. I say this lovingly — these terrible parents are my own […]

An Ordination and Gentle Giants

An Ordination and Gentle Giants

Jun 6 13 • 0 comments

Three men, brave and determined men, took that final leap into a new life; complete with new titles, responsibilities, and new homes today….never to be the same again. But they prepared for this over a  seven year-span, immersed in the spiritual, biblical, and examples of those around them. They definitely had the support from family […]

We Must Lay Hold Of Life

We Must Lay Hold Of Life

Jun 6 13 • 0 comments

On the Friday that is the 19th day after the feast of Pentecost the Church celebrates the feast of the Sacred Heart. On that day, as just about every Friday of every week of the year, my pro life colleagues will be present in front of two local abortion facilities. They will offer the counsel […]

Assassination of Bobby Kennedy.  Marking 45 years (June 6, 1968)

Assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Marking 45 years (June 6, 1968)

In a thousand days of JFK, Hope held sway for a better way. To the noble we did aspire. What was keen and bold we did admire. Jackie helped us look for class, Rise above the crass and brass. In Spanish and French, for Jack she spoke, To grace and poise she inspired plain folk. […]

Darkness to Light: a Story of Redemption and Life

Darkness to Light: a Story of Redemption and Life

Jun 5 13 • 2 comments

My life changed forever at the age of 19, when I had an unplanned pregnancy. Growing up in a pro-life family, I never dreamed my beliefs would be tested. It was much less complicated to think of it as a pregnancy, rather than as a baby. I knew what I had to do: have an […]

Mommy, Why Do We Pray?

Mommy, Why Do We Pray?

Jun 5 13 • 2 comments

“Mommy, why do we pray?” That seems like an easy question to answer, but I wanted to give her something to hang on to later in life. Satan tempts us not to pray. Someday she may feel she doesn’t have time to pray, she may be too hurt, angry, or afraid to pray, or she […]

IRS Ordered Pro-Life Group Not to Protest Planned Parenthood

IRS Ordered Pro-Life Group Not to Protest Planned Parenthood

Jun 5 13 • 0 comments

When the Coalition for Life of Iowa applied to the IRS for tax-exempt status just as Barack Obama was about to take office, CFLI President Susan Martinek expected a rigorous process requiring full disclosure of all relevant information. But she told Congress yesterday morning there were a few things she had not anticipated: That the […]

John B. Tabb - Priest-Poet

Tabb’s Poetry XXI

Jun 5 13 • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Holocaust Then and Now

Holocaust Then and Now

Jun 4 13 • 0 comments

We have frequently argued that one of the main reasons why we want to redefine the pro-life movement as the pro-human personhood movement is that it is a positive, upbeat way for us—in this age of iPhones, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter—to bring the humanity of the child, from his first instant of existence, right into […]

<i>Father</i>: Feminism's Four Letter Word

Father: Feminism’s Four Letter Word

Jun 4 13 • 2 comments

In a recent Washington Post article, “The New F-Word: Father,” Kathleen Parker discusses a recent study on household income dynamics by the Pew Research Center which shows that 40 percent of U.S. households with children under 18 are run by women who are either the primary or sole breadwinner. Parker recognizes that this data is […]

From Father to Son in <em>After Earth</em>

From Father to Son in After Earth

Being marooned, either on a desert island or in space, has a long literary and film history. There is something about the solitary individual (sometimes the small group) battling against his circumstances, knowing that no cavalry is going to arrive. When the stakes are “perform or die” you normally have captivating drama. The pairing of […]

Women Deliver: Gates Global Push for Abortion Continues

Women Deliver: Gates Global Push for Abortion Continues

The Malaysia conference highlights how to market a drug for one thing and use it for another, how euphemisms work and how it is up to government to create demand for contraception. It’s being billed as “the largest global event of the decade to focus on the health and empowerment of girls and women.” But […]

This Little Light of Mine: Living the Beatitudes

This Little Light of Mine: Living the Beatitudes

The forward of Kathleen Basi’s new book, This Little Light of Mine says, “No one can teach well what he or she doesn’t know well. The best way to ensure that religious formation “takes” is for parents to live their faith, to be seekers alongside their children. Then, children see that religion is not something […]

 Poem: "To Medusa"

Poem: “To Medusa”

Jun 3 13 • 0 comments

To Medusa Gorgon, my Gorgon I gaze on that sweetest face. Stone, my own face turns. O Medusa, dear, Let us talk a while here, Make our wedding plans. Shall it be had here, Or closer to your own Greece, Under olive trees? Who should we invite? Who can stand to see your grace? Who […]

ECHR: The Way Toward a Right to Assisted Suicide

ECHR: The Way Toward a Right to Assisted Suicide

Through the judgment of Alda Gross v. Switzerland (No. 67810/10), given on May 14, 2013, the Second Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) completed the edification of an individual right to assisted suicide (that is to say, consenting euthanasia) in the name of the right to the respect of private life guaranteed […]

Real Talk for Engaged Couples

Real Talk for Engaged Couples

Jun 3 13 • 4 comments

By the time this column is published, this author will have participated in the sacrament of marriage.  While I do not know what the future has in store for me, I do believe that the experiences I had in the past 14 months (our time of engagement) have been God preparing me for the married […]

Church Architecture 101, Part Three

Church Architecture 101, Part Three

Jun 3 13 • 0 comments

This article focuses on the meaning and uses of the term “tradition.” The next article will speak of the serious error of nostalgia as a motivation for design. I believe it was C.S. Lewis who coined the term “verbicide”. The meaning and significance of the words “tradition” and “nostalgia” have both suffered from this. Here […]