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Catholics Don’t “Believe” Life Begins at Conception

I don’t know how many times I have heard it. Well-meaning Catholics who say, “As a Catholic, I believe life begins at conception.” I have decided that my mission in life is to correct this miscommunication because it is that very line that lets everyone who is not Catholic dismiss everything we have to say […]

Pope Decrees: Catholic Charities Must Act in Accordance With Catholic Teaching

Dec 2 12 • Hilary White • 1 comment

In a surprise move, Pope Benedict XVI this morning issued a formal legislative document instructing Catholic charitable organisations that they must act in complete compliance with Catholic teaching. The Vatican rumour mill failed to predict the appearance today of the pope’s Motu Proprio, a special letter written and promulgated on Pope Benedict’s personal initiative, that lays out […]

How God Makes Beauty from Barrenness

Dec 1 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 0 comments

The weather was still chilly on the May morning when I found myself pacing in a northern-Wisconsin parking lot, trying to find a sweet spot in the gray sky overhead where my cell phone would work. My mother and I were traveling together, taking a break from visiting my grandmother in her Green Bay nursing […]

Catholic Politics

Dec 1 12 • Russell Shaw • 5 comments

The cardinal looked grim. “This is the situation now,” he said. “One political party is dangerous and the other is stupid.” Since that was said in a private chat, it wouldn’t be fair for me to name the speaker. But his comment expresses sentiments that probably are widely shared in the American hierarchy today, as […]

Twinkie Killers, Part 2: Long Live the Twinkie!

Nov 30 12 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

Can the Twinkie and other famous Hostess brands be saved? I hope so, and I’ll offer my own two cents’ on one possible way of doing so. First, though, I’d like to address two of the criticisms of my previous article—namely, that I confined my comments to the Bakery union and the allegation that I […]

UNFPA’S Dark View

Nov 30 12 • Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. • 0 comments

The new UN Population Fund report is riddled with problems which undercut its call for $8.1B a year for ever more contraception in developing countries. The evidence for this ambitious claim is so thin that it should not be hard for critics to refute it, but here are 11 problems that jumped off the very first pages: 1. The report is based […]

Farewell to Apostate America: Tentative Exit Plan

Nov 30 12 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 46 comments

For the sequels to this article, follow these links: Farewell to Apostate America, part 2 Poem: Farewell to Apostate America Obama on Secession: Farewell to Apostate America, part 3 Union vs. Constitution: Farewell to Apostate America, part 4 President Obama has already appointed two Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court[1], and he is poised to […]

Analyzing the 5% Drop in Abortions in the CDC’s 2009 Abortion Surveillance Report, Part Two

Nov 30 12 • Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D • 0 comments

When abortions drop, for whatever reason, that’s a big deal. Precious unborn lives have been saved and their mothers saved from making a terrible mistake. But figuring out why they may have dropped, even when the exact cause may be unclear, is important too, especially if, like us, you very much want this trend to […]

Theology on the Tea Cups

Nov 30 12 • Nic Davidson • 1 comment

“Forget about man-made religion, man! Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?” It is likely that we’ve all been on at least one side of that question, possibly both. Before leaving Assemblies of God, I was one of the loudest and proudest when it came to purposefully shearing off anything that I decided […]

Gay Marriage Fallout: Will We Become a Nation of Bastards?

Nov 30 12 • Jennifer Thieme • 0 comments

Gay “marriage” hijacks the definition of mother and father and turns these words into the gender neutral “parent” in family law. You may recall that in 2011 the Department of State tried to change children’s passport applications from “mother” and “father” to “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” in a bow to LGBT pressure. Thankfully, conservative outcry was able […]

Poem: “The Canticle”

Nov 30 12 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

The Canticle Far off I hear the singing of a thrush So far, in some far place, the deepest hush, There rises up a clear sweet sound of faith, Foolish one, to sing a note so brief Foolish one, no soul is there to hear Except the simple spirit of the deer, The heartless trees […]

CDC Shows Large Drop in Abortions for 2009, Part One

Nov 29 12 • Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D • 0 comments

Abortion numbers, rates, and ratios for 2009 have been released by the government’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), indicating significantly fewer abortions than found in the previous year’s report. And while the decrease is most welcomed, the abortion industry likes to act as if women no longer died from abortion once it became legal. In […]

Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?

Nov 29 12 • Thomas Storck • 1 comment

There is a saying of G.K. Chesterton’s about economics that one finds frequently quoted, but often it seems with little attempt to understand what Chesterton meant or might have meant, especially in the context of his entire economic thought. Now most people know that Chesterton was a Distributist, but since there is some confusion in […]

Disability Treaty Goes to Senate Floor

Nov 29 12 • Lisa Correnti • 0 comments

Senator Reid made a motion yesterday to move the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to executive session. The motion passed allowing debate to follow. Foreign Relations committee chairman Sen. John Kerry followed with an opening statement in which he tried to assure senators that the convention would not grant any new […]

Book Review: A Winter Dream

Nov 29 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Judging from the front cover of A Winter Dream, which features a lit-up Christmas tree, one might expect that this latest offering from best-selling author Richard Paul Evans is a Christmas story. It is not; it is a story for every season. While it does open with a dream that includes a Christmas-type tree, this […]

Choosing Light and Life in an Age of Darkness

Nov 29 12 • Cynthia Trainque • 0 comments

“Women have the right to choose” is the battle cry of the Pro-Choice. But choose what? The right to choose is never an end in itself. The right to choose is about being able to choose that which is good. “Women have a right to do what they want with their own body.” Do they […]

America’s Pediatricians Claim the Right to Contracept Your Kids

Nov 29 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 1 comment

Parents are Not to Know (But They are Expected to Pay) The day before Thanksgiving, I got a call from a harried reporter. “The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a statement on “Emergency Contraception,” he said. “I’d like to get your take on it.” The 10-page document turns out to be a full-throated endorsement […]

The LBJ Curse on the Black Vote

Nov 29 12 • Anthony B. Bradley • 0 comments

Gov. Mitt Romney’s devastating loss to President Barack Obama is producing all sorts of interesting discussion. The analysis shows, again, a clear preference that minorities had for Obama. For example, according to exit polling data at Fox News, President Obama received 93 percent of the black vote. Over the years, the GOP made honest attempts […]

How Many Shopping Days ’til Christmas?

Nov 29 12 • Kate Daneluk • 0 comments

Yes, the secularism, the retail racquet, the commercialism has taken over our American culture and it is never more apparent than in this final month before Christmas. “Good grief!” you may despair. But do not fear. The true meaning of Christmas is still strong with people of Good Will. The best way to effect change […]

One Thousand Babies

Nov 28 12 • Susan H. Gray • 0 comments

Earlier this year, the pro-life community in southeast Russia celebrated a significant milestone. It was the birth of a baby boy named Denis. What was so important about little Denis? He was the 1,000th baby brought into this world through the assistance of the Adopt-a-Birth program in Vladivostok. The Adopt-a-Birth program is the brainchild of […]

Respecting Your Mental Powers

Nov 28 12 • Mary Kochan • 1 comment

“All men by nature desire to know.” So Aristotle begins his Metaphysics. We desire to know what is and we desire to know it truly and this desire is “by nature” — as every parent of a miniature metaphysician can testify, for “what?” and “why?” are the words his child’s mind lives by from morning to […]

On Writing in Dark Times

Nov 28 12 • Susannah Black • 2 comments

In a (very) recent episode of the confessional Lutheran podcast “Issues, Etc.,” Matt Harrison, interviewing Allan Carlson, reflected on the meaning of the recent election for social conservatives. I’m sure we’ve all been immersed in this sort of thinking, this past week or so: Harrison said that “while there’s not an inevitability to this, we may […]

The Petraeus Affair in Context

Nov 28 12 • Ryan Grant • 0 comments

We’ve all encountered the media spectacle of General Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. In fact I’m sure most of us are quite sick of hearing about it. For me it hearkens back to the days of President Clinton and the 24-7 coverage of that sex scandal. Today, just as then, the media is […]

Restoring the Foundations of Civil Society

Nov 28 12 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

In the wake of President Obama’s decisive reelection, the GOP is engaged in some serious soul-searching. Pundits on the Right and Left are cautioning Republicans that their party is facing extinction unless some major changes are made. They maintain it’s evolve or die for the GOP. The question is, how much can an institution change […]