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Palliative Care Association Reluctantly Reviews UK Death Pathway

A group of pro-life physicians and other professionals, as well as the Catholic archbishop of Southwark, and innumerable patient’s families, are now being joined by the UK Health Secretary in calling for a thorough, independent review of the reported abuses of the Liverpool Care Pathway, a controversial end-of-life medical care protocol. A public outcry is […]

When Love and Career Collide

Nov 2 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 0 comments

Like most women in my post-feminist generation, I grew up knowing exactly what I did not want when it came to love and work. I did not want to sacrifice my personal life at the altar of the all-consuming career. Nor did I want to surrender professional success in a fit of passion or panic […]

Practical Economics: How Things Work, Why There is Room for Morality, Where to Go from Here

Nov 1 12 • Jeff Mirus • 1 comment

There is a great deal of debate over the economy in the current Presidential election. Indeed, the Republican ticket has focused the election on economic issues, and particularly on government spending, by adding Paul Ryan as its Vice Presidential candidate. This enables the Democratic Party to take shots at Republican economic ideas, in the hope […]

Who’s Got You?: Observations of a Catholic Homeschooling Father

Nov 1 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

If you do an Internet search for “Catholic Fatherhood” how much data would you find in comparison to Panda Bears, Applied Linear Algebra, and Welding Theory? According to John Clark, author of Who’s Got You, Catholic Fatherhood comes in last. The results respectively were 1,914, 1,706, and 284. Catholic Fatherhood netted 270 results. Clark surmised […]

Attending the Abortionists’ Annual Pep Rally

Nov 1 12 • Population Research Council • 2 comments

This year’s FIAPAC Congress, in October in Edinburgh, Scotland, brought together 460 delegates from 45 countries. Most were front-line abortion “providers”, that is, abortionists, clinic administrators and counsellors, and three quarters were women, feminists all. Many of them wore shaved heads and work boots. The male minority were mostly abortionists. One South American attendee wore […]

Critiquing the Campaign

Nov 1 12 • Russell Shaw • 4 comments

As the 2012 campaign passes into history, it’s not too soon to note some of the genuine horrors of this increasingly strange way of choosing a president. First, though, let me repeat a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic Democracy in America that I cited many months ago when the campaign was heating up. The […]

All Soul’s Day

Nov 1 12 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 3 comments

I’ll never forget that bleak January day when my father died. It was very hard to believe in the resurrection as I watched the undertakers carry away his lifeless corpse in a body bag. But imagine this scene. You are an unborn child who has lived in cozy but cramped quarters with your twin for […]

Poem: “I Believe What I Believe”

Nov 1 12 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 0 comments

I believe what I believe I believe what I believe That when in life I do achieve And rise in state and sight of men The truth I mask and myself deceive. I believe what I believe Knowing deep wherein thoughts conceive That if a thousand falls I make Even then would pardon relieve. I […]

Vote Your Vision

Oct 31 12 • Ken Connor • 1 comment

President Obama has said many times that this election represents a choice between two very different visions for America. Do we want to go back to the same policies that got us in so much trouble in the first place or do we want a fresh start for America, a new vision leading to a […]

Sexting, Sexcasting, and Moral Foundations

Oct 31 12 • Stacy Trasancos • 5 comments

Remember in 2005 when we first heard about “sexting”? In a culture where kids grow up inundated with sexual language, sexual images, sexual music, sexual television, sexual education and encouragement to explore their sexual selves — parents, nonetheless, expressed horror to learn that kids were sending nude and sexually suggestive or explicit pictures to each […]

Sleepless in the Night

Oct 31 12 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 0 comments

I’m entering a new phase of my life . . . the “hot” zone. One minute, minding my own business, typing or reading or just hanging with family — the next, the heater kicks in and my face has little rivulets of sweat. One minute I’m sound asleep, cuddled in my fuzzy armed sleeper, the […]

A Photo Montage of Tolerance

Oct 31 12 • Joseph Backholm • 0 comments

Every time someone mentions the fact that individuals have been sued or fired because of their beliefs about marriage, those trying to redefine marriage scoff, “Impossible.” Every time we mention the fact that children have been taught about same-sex “marriage” in public schools they’re outraged by the lies and distortions. And when they hear from […]

Unmusical Pro-Obama Ditty is Seriously Laughable

Oct 30 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 1 comment

About the new video from a group that calls itself the Future Children Project, which promotes its pro-Obama message in a song performed by a children’s choir: You people must be joking. Really. This agitprop is so bad I thought it was political satire. It didn’t seem possible that anyone would seriously expect American voters […]

Attempt to Equate Pro-Life Position With Forced Abortion Redefines “Coercion”

Oct 30 12 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 0 comments

According to a new Guttmacher Institute article, women’s reproductive capacity is subjected to governmental coercion “either to have or to not have children for the greater good of those other than themselves,” and cites forced abortions in China alongside abortion restrictions in the US as examples of this. When photos of a woman in rural China […]

Don’t Forget the “Of The’s”

Oct 30 12 • Stacy Trasancos • 0 comments

Sometimes little things make a big difference. I saw this reminder in a child’s catechism book, and it has become something we repeat daily around here. Don’t forget the “of the’s.” It is not correct to say, “In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” Why is that so important? In the baptismal […]

Ten Quotes About Hope to Lift Your Spirits

Oct 30 12 • Marge Fenelon • 3 comments

Scanning the various media outlets, it seems as though the bad news outnumbers the good! So, I decided that we all could use a proverbial shot in the arm to lift our spirits and get us thinking, feeling, and acting positively again. I’ve chosen ten quotes about hope (real, Christian hope, not political jargon hope) […]

Euthanasia: It’s Not Enough To Say No

Oct 30 12 • Terry McDermott • 0 comments

On June 15, 2012, the Canadian province of British Columbia Supreme Court struck down a law prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide. It won’t be long before the other provinces follow suit. My country is on the same slippery slope as Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Oregon and Washington. Within minutes of the law being struck down, my […]

Gracelessness

Oct 29 12 • Robert J. Gieb • 2 comments

I watched as the manager of the commercial abortuary came walking up the sidewalk by the side of the building, her arm around her next “patient.” They were followed by a man and a woman. The “patient” was no more than fifteen years old, probably fourteen. The man and the woman following her into the […]

Movie Review: <em>Here Comes the Boom</em>

Movie Review: Here Comes the Boom

Oct 29 12 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 1 comment

Here Comes the Boom is a very worthwhile film. It could even be seen as a definitive “teachers rock,” “save the school kids” film. Interestingly enough, another teacher/school film was just in theaters, Won’t Back Down, that beats the audience over the head with self-righteous, overbearing clichés (the trailer is just one cliché stitched to […]

Avoid the Election Day Traps — Part I

Oct 29 12 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

When Election Day arrives, so do the traps that come with it. Be sure you avoid these pitfalls, and help others avoid them, too! 1. I’m a nobody — I only have one vote, and my vote doesn’t count! This trap overlooks the lessons of history that show how elections can be decided by a […]

Whoopi Goldberg – Big Whoop

Oct 29 12 • Cheryl Dickow • 2 comments

I don’t watch The View. I tried a few times, many moons ago; but found that even with the presence of conservative Elisabeth Hasslebeck, I couldn’t stomach the show. I’m also a huge fan of Ann Romney. Huge. But even her guest spot on The View couldn’t entice me to tune in. Appearing the same […]

Extremism as the Exuse

Oct 29 12 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

First it was Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin who defended the lives of innocent preborn children created during the vicious act of rape. Now it’s Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock who has done the same—and the media is going nuts. USA Today reports: “Asked whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest, […]

Poem: “We are Going Somewhere. We are on Our Way”

Oct 29 12 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

We are Going Somewhere. We are on Our Way I look in the rearview mirror My young son is thrilled Adrenaline pumped, anticipation heavy I’ve not told him where we’re going Whether a trip to the grocery store Or fabulous Toy place A drive around the block to home Or off to a friend’s house […]

Constantine and Christendom: Glory or Calamity?

Oct 28 12 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 2 comments

God did not send the Savior to a pacifist society in Nepal, or to some remote place eschewing military preparedness (like an ancient version of today’s Costa Rica). Instead he chose the world’s greatest and most literate empire at “the fullness of time.”[1] The Pax Romana, the Roman Peace, was maintained by training, equipping and […]