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Weekly Wits: 3/8/13

#Julia’sCaesar Even Me & Folly Cartoons has felt the ravages of SEQUESTER!! Due to a minor cut in our projected budget we’ve had to sell off all our inks and paints and send our cartoonist to work in a salt mine in Puerto Rico. We still had enough money for crayons, pencils, and this budget-slashing […]

‘House of Horrors’ Abortionist Rejects Plea Bargain to Avoid Death Penalty

Mar 8 13 • LifeSiteNews.com • 0 comments

Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist charged with eight counts of murder for allegedly snipping the spinal cords of newborns and overdosing one patient at his squalid Philadelphia abortion facility, has rejected a plea bargain agreement that would have spared him the death penalty if convicted. Gosnell was brought to court on Thursday from a jail […]

Poem: “Fifth Station”

Mar 8 13 • Matthew B. Rose • 0 comments

Fifth Station Good Friday My God, My God, Why am I here? Why the tortures Horrors Grimly I fear This Dies Irae It seems so dark Lonely, lonesome O God, where are you? Answer Me! Matthew B. Rose

What We Need in a New Pope

Mar 8 13 • Russell Shaw • 3 comments

“I hope we get a nice pope,” a good Catholic woman told me soon after Benedict XVI announced his resignation. “I don’t care whether he’s nice or not,” I replied. “I just hope he’s strong.” Actually, I’d be glad if the next pope were nice, with a winning smile and a friendly manner. But vastly […]

Don’t Wait ’til It’s Too Late to Decide

Mar 8 13 • Ken Connor • 1 comment

This past week, health care journalist Charles Ornstein wrote a compelling piece for the Washington Post detailing his personal experience with heart-wrenching end-of-life medical decisions. Ornstein’s story of his mother’s death highlights the complexity of this little-discussed topic, and should serve as a wakeup call to every American family: End-of-life issues should not be avoided […]

Limits on Children’s Media Exposure

Mar 7 13 • Marybeth Hicks • 0 comments

ANALYSIS/OPINION: From this week’s e-mail, a message from a dad whose ex-wife doesn’t share his concerns about the influence of the culture on their high schooler and preteens: To: Marybeth From: A concerned dad How do you suggest defending against the culture’s assault on childhood when it starts coming via an “inside job”? My soon-to-be ex […]

All The Days of My Life: A Chastity Tale

Mar 7 13 • Sarah Babbs • 0 comments

Imagine my surprise when a friend who works with the parish youth group asked me to give a chastity talk to the middle and high school aged girls. “Who, me?” I said, raising an eyebrow suspiciously. I thought, Why not someone who has actually lived chastely her whole life? Me? I did it all wrong. […]

The Idol of “Human Rights”

Mar 7 13 • Louie Verrecchio • 0 comments

Our first parents, endowed with every good gift and living in friendship with the benevolent Creator, yielded to the temptation to assert an autonomy that was never their own, exalting themselves over God. Thus, as illustrated in the masterwork of St. Augustine, was the “city of men” set in conflict with the “City of God.” […]

Purgtory Part 3: Faith and Love

Mar 7 13 • JC Sanders • 0 comments

This is the third in a series in which I attempt to address the question, “What is purgatory, and why is it necessary?” by expanding on the simple answer that Purgatory is the state, place, or process by which a soul is purified for entrance into heaven. Part 1 is here and Part 2 can be found here. “So […]

The Apostolate of Suffering

Mar 7 13 • Chelsea Zimmerman • 0 comments

The topic for discussion at my local Theology on Tap recently was evangelization and Christ’s instructions to His Apostles to go out and spread the Good News: Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in […]

Who Needs the Family?

Mar 7 13 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

When a civilization destroys its families, then it destroys itself.

What Is MIssing From Our Conversation About the Morning After Pill

Mar 6 13 • Abram Muenzberg • 0 comments

On February 21 it was reported that the German Bishops of Trier released a statement announcing that emergency contraception known as the “Morning-after Pill” (MAP) can be used in cases of rape if it does not induce abortion. Politically progressive readers heard this news and rallied around these bishops for conceding to the use of […]

A Larger Role for Women in the Catholic Church? Yes!

Mar 6 13 • Leticia Velasquez • 11 comments

Comments agitating for “women in the priesthood” are found throughout the media, voiced largely by outsiders to the Catholic Church, either non-Catholics or those who have willingly distanced themselves from the Church, so when I read this headline – “Exclusive: Women deserve bigger role in Church, says key cardinal” — my visceral reaction was negative. […]

Abortion is a Symptom of Deeper Issues

Mar 6 13 • Beatrice Fedor • 1 comment

The word that comes to mind to describe my childhood and my abortions is obliterated. There are troubling similarities between the way I was treated as a child and the way I treated my unborn children. I believe that women who were maltreated are predisposed to have abortions. As I was looking for studies to corroborate […]

Homeschooling and Struggling with Self-Discipline

Mar 6 13 • Jennifer Fitz • 1 comment

Having been duly warned about the dangers of praying for patience, just before Lent I did something nearly as foolish: I prayed for self-discipline. Because I haven’t got much of it. Some people do, and if that’s you, please understand that we goof-offs and layabouts aren’t really trying to ruin your life, or our own, […]

Tabb’s Poetry IX

Mar 6 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Holy is a Four-Letter Word

Mar 6 13 • Marge Fenelon • 0 comments

As I make my way through Lent, I like to periodically stop and assess how I’m doing, and re-orientate myself toward my Lenten goal. This year, I’m feeling a bit scattered, and although I’ve been doing a pretty good job at keeping my Lenten resolutions, I don’t feel as though I have a really good […]

A Matter of Urgency

Mar 5 13 • Ron Quinlan • 2 comments

I had a friend who first heard of the Divine Mercy Message just in time to celebrate the Feast in 2011. Within a year she was dead at the age of 55. She was blessed to learn of the Feast of Divine Mercy when she did but how many others will not. Over and over I hear […]

Putting Politics Over Public Safety

Mar 5 13 • Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. • 0 comments

An ominous pattern has been developing, particularly of late: The Obama administration seems determined to subordinate public safety to political expediency. If a course-correction is not effected promptly, the result is predictable. Americans will be needlessly harmed, and perhaps killed. The most recent and obvious example was the release last week of hundreds of reportedly […]

March for Marriage Planned as Supreme Court Hears Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Case

Mar 5 13 • Kirsten Anderson • 0 comments

On March 26, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Hollingsworth v. Perry case, which will determine if Proposition 8 – the 2008 ballot initiative protecting traditional marriage in California – is constitutional or not. Their decision will have grave implications for the entire nation. A decision against Prop 8 would set a precedent for […]

The Patience of the Teacher

Mar 5 13 • Stephanie Gulya • 0 comments

As a teacher, one of the most frustrating parts of my job is when I have spent time and energy planning and explaining an assignment or topic only to discover that my students have been left bewildered and overwhelmed by my presentation. Some times it feels as though I honestly could not make the topic […]

Rediscovering Mariology: Going Beyond Apparitions

Mar 5 13 • Fr. Edward Looney • 58 comments

Recently while perusing Marian books at a Catholic gift store, I discovered many of the topics pertained to Marian apparitions, some approved and others not. Over dinner, I mentioned that I enjoyed the study of Mary, known as Mariology, and the other person shared with me that he had visited Lourdes. After giving a talk on the rosary, someone from the congregation asked, “What do you think […]

New Evidence Challenges UN Commissioner’s Call for Comprehensive Sex Ed

Mar 5 13 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 0 comments

As the UN Human Rights Council considers whether to endorse a report praising comprehensive sex education programs, a new review of the disputed curricula finds they can do more harm than good. The report released in December by the increasingly-controversial High Commissioner for Human Rights states that adolescent health depends on “comprehensive sexuality education and […]

German Bishops “Approve” a Morning-After Pill that Does Not Exist

Mar 4 13 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

Catholic hospitals and physicians in Germany left out in the cold by a decision that ignores science According to a new statement by the German Bishops’ Conference, Catholic physicians and hospitals can now prescribe and administer the morning-after pill (MAP) in cases where a woman is a victim of sexual assault as long as it does […]