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Top Ten People of 2012 and One "Man of the Year"

Top Ten People of 2012 and One “Man of the Year”

Jan 19 13 • 1 comment

Each year, Inside the Vatican magazine chooses 10 people we believe are examples of great courage, fidelity to the Church and heroic Christian charity. Our choice for “Person of the Year”: Pope Benedict XVI. He passed through the crucible of the “Vatileaks” scandal and continued to preach the Gospel, in season and out of season… […]

Obama on Secession:  Farewell to Apostate America, part 3

Obama on Secession: Farewell to Apostate America, part 3

        Obama on Secession Something of a clamor for secession followed President Obama’s reelection in 2012.  And the elections strengthened his ominous social agenda, with wins for same sex marriage in four out of five States.  After election day, some half a million citizens signed petitions to have 13 States withdraw from postmodern America.  The […]

Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Fifth Commandment

The Catechism on the Right of Self-Defense

Jan 19 13 • 2 comments

One of two articles for Gun Appreciation Day. Violence may be justified in the service of self-defense, even to the point of killing an unjust aggressor: this has been settled Catholic teaching for hundreds of years. The most recent restatement of the Church’s teaching on self-defense is in the second edition of the Catechism of […]

Supreme Court Decision, DC vs. Heller

The Supreme Court on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Jan 19 13 • 2 comments

One of two articles for Gun Appreciation Day. The federal constitution prohibits the federal government from depriving individual citizens of their right to possess and use firearms for lawful purposes, including self-defense. This right is not, however, unlimited: it may be withdrawn, for instance, from felons and the mentally ill, and it may be restricted […]

MyFertilityMD App Review

MyFertilityMD App Review

Jan 19 13 • 4 comments

I’ve been looking for an app to chart my body’s fertility for quite a while. Remember my begging? No? Well, I assure you, I even used this space to try to find something, and never had any luck. My days of searching are over, though, and I’m excited to share a brand-new app with you: […]

Hispanics, the Catholic Vote, and the New Evangelization

Hispanics, the Catholic Vote, and the New Evangelization

Jan 18 13 • 2 comments

 “Are you still without understanding?” – Mt 15:16 With the election still raw in the hearts and minds of many, the political commentary is in full gear and will be for many weeks to come. Many in the Catholic blogosphere have either urged calm, or warned of a potential martyrdom heading our way. Whether you […]

Weekly Wits

Weekly Wits 1/18/13

Jan 18 13 • 0 comments

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A Second Look at Confession

Jan 18 13 • 18 comments

If you ask any priest, he will tell you that one of the biggest dangers attacking healthy marriages in the Church today comes from pornography.  When you consider that kids from healthy Catholic marriages are a lot likelier to develop a strong faith, this is a problem that affects more than just the individual couple; it impacts […]

Abortion Survivor Dr. Imre Téglásy Fights for Life in Hungary

Abortion Survivor Dr. Imre Téglásy Fights for Life in Hungary

Jan 18 13 • 0 comments

In a short video released this week by Human Life International (HLI), Dr. Imre Téglásy tells his personal story of learning he was as an abortion survivor and how that revelation as a young child drives his work to defend life in his home country of Hungary. “I was 11 years old … and somehow […]

Book Review: <i>Frozen Footprints</i>

Book Review: Frozen Footprints

Frozen Footprints  (Tumblar House, 2012) is the latest contribution to Catholic suspense by Therese Heckenkamp, author of Past Suspicion. I freely admit, suspense is not my genre of choice, but Heckenkamp once again managed to keep me interested and invested in this story. Charlene and Max Perigard are twins, raised by their grandfather, a wealthy […]

Chicken Little

Chicken Little

Jan 18 13 • 8 comments

I had an odd response to the 2012 presidential election: I stopped watching the news. I also stopped reading the news on the Internet. In fact, not a single television show appealed to me and the blackened screen simply became a piece of ubiquitous furniture in the center of the room. At that point I […]

Icing, Stretches, and Everyday Sanctity

Icing, Stretches, and Everyday Sanctity

Jan 18 13 • 0 comments

I’m working my way through a book called Everyday Sanctity, written by Schoenstatt Sister of Mary, M. A. Nailis. With texts from it’s founder, Fr. Joseph Kentenich, this volume addresses one of the pillars of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement, everyday sanctity, which is the practice of giving everyday life the character of holiness. Although it’s become […]

Poem: "Sanctified Hands"

Poem: “Sanctified Hands”

Jan 18 13 • 1 comment

Sanctified Hands Fingers spontaneously unfold, joint by joint Revealing a palm itching to catch: A ray eminating from His Holy Face. A beam of light filling the hole drilled By worldly endeavors. A luminious stream of love flowing Through fingers outstretched, spread apart Attemping to capture infinity In a particular moment in time. Washed clean, […]

What About That Elephant In The Sanctuary?

What About That Elephant In The Sanctuary?

Jan 17 13 • 6 comments

The continuing dissent of the Catholic left from the fundamental tenets of the Catholic Church is not a news flash, and to be clear, the dissent did not start with the campaign leading up to the 2012 election. But the campaign and election did produce a clarification as many Catholic politicians, Catholic university professors, prominent […]

"Gay Sin" Survey Reveals We’re Playing God

“Gay Sin” Survey Reveals We’re Playing God

Jan 17 13 • 3 comments

I’m always on the hunt for positive news, there being such consistent media focus on the bad stuff. Most days, headlines essentially read, “Handbasket full; hell in sight.” So a recent headline caught my eye because of its positive tone: “Survey: Big drop in those who say being gay’s a sin.” According to Lifeway Research, […]

Why Young Men are Giving Up on Marriage

Why Young Men are Giving Up on Marriage

Jan 17 13 • 4 comments

Fewer young men in the US want to get married than ever, while the desire for marriage is rising among young women, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew recently found that the number of women 18-34 saying that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things rose from 28 percent to […]

Right to Consumer Genetics?

Right to Consumer Genetics?

Jan 17 13 • 0 comments

These days it seems we have a “right” to everything except the rights that are actually given to us by our Creator and enumerated in the Constitution. According to this article from the MIT Technology Review we even have a “right to consumer genetics.” What exactly is consumer genetics? Well, you can go about getting your genes […]

1.3 Million Demonstrate Against Same-Sex “Marriage” and Adoption in Paris

1.3 Million Demonstrate Against Same-Sex “Marriage” and Adoption in Paris

The turnout was overwhelming and dwarfed even the most optimistic forecasts. While official police sources, apparently under pressure from the government, sought to downplay the number of demonstrators who, despite the biting cold, came to Paris last Sunday to rally against the socialist-led government’s plans to legislate for same-sex “marriages” (including a pretended “right” for […]

What Dreams May Come: Azazel and the Pursuit of Justice

What Dreams May Come: Azazel and the Pursuit of Justice

In “Nightmares and Dreamscapes from the Desert,” a These Stone Walls post during Lent last year, I wrote of a recurring dream I’ve had throughout 18 years of imprisonment. The dream had multiple variations and outcomes, all of them anxiety producing, but one version in particular seemed to be an archetype for the dream’s central […]

New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities

New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities

Jan 16 13 • 0 comments

A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proportionate attention within international policy-making institutions. According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2010) published in The Lancet medical journal in December, over 1.4 million people died from diarrhea […]

The Goal of Chastity

The Goal of Chastity

Jan 16 13 • 0 comments

I have suspected for a while now that there is little clarity in our culture regarding the goal of chastity. This is probably in part because there is little clarity regarding the difference between abstinence (which ends at marriage) and chastity (which never ends). But it is also probably in part because chastity contradicts the […]

John B. Tabb - Priest-Poet

Tabb’s Poetry III

Jan 16 13 • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Mortal Life Without End? Really?

Mortal Life Without End? Really?

Jan 15 13 • 1 comment

Anyone who has seen the latest DROID DNA smart phone ads realizes that such devices have become nearly inseparable from man’s person. As a matter of fact, the ads suggest that the phone is so much a part of the person that even his intelligence will be improved by merely using the phone. These are superb sales […]

Creed and Credibility

Creed and Credibility

Jan 15 13 • 0 comments

The Faith may be ever-ancient, ever new, but calls for it to be amended or abridged are nothing new. Always there are clarion calls that the Church is dying out, and that she must adapt her teachings or face a slow death. A variety of heresies and challengers rise up in every age demanding to […]