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Book Review: <em>The Catholic Baby Name Book</em>

Book Review: The Catholic Baby Name Book

Jun 28 13 • 1 comment

Considering that no one in my family is expecting, it might seem strange that I have been so happily perusing a baby name book.  But The Catholic Baby Name Book by Catholic Lane Senior Editor, Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur, is a complete delight and of nearly the same interest whether you are looking to name an expected […]

Barack Obama - Hillary Clinton - Bill Clinton

Haha

Jun 28 13 • 1 comment
Poem: "Jim" and "And Then There Were Nine"

Poem: “Jim” and “And Then There Were Nine”

Jun 28 13 • 0 comments

Jim This one’s for you, the man you’ve become. There were many years we had no connection, for whatever reason we’ve made the correction. We’ve missed so much because of the choices we’ve made, and there seems little time to make up the gain. So before it is too late for you to know, that […]

Re-Evaluating Television: Questions of Morality

Re-Evaluating Television: Questions of Morality

Jun 28 13 • 2 comments

One of my fondest memories of my grandmother is watching Little House on the Prairie with her when I was a child.  Knowing she loved Little House on the Prairie, one Christmas I decided to purchase the first season of The Waltons for her.   I am not entirely sure if she ever watched any of […]

Rainbow Flag March

Liberals Embrace Fatherless (and Motherless) Families

Jun 28 13 • 9 comments

Think about it: married female-female parents will be households without dads.

Summer Camp: Exploring New Passions

Summer Camp: Exploring New Passions

Jun 28 13 • 0 comments

At some point between the ages of 5 and 12 most children find a passion.  It may be a vocational kind of passion like an animal-lover on the path to veterinary medicine, or an avocation like a softball player who one day applies that determination to passing the Bar Exam.  At this tender age, it’s […]

Weekly Wits

Weekly Wits: 6/28/13

Jun 28 13 • 0 comments

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Irish Abortion Bill Will End Lives to Promote False “Right”

Irish Abortion Bill Will End Lives to Promote False “Right”

This is how crazy the situation has become in Ireland. The abortion bill that is nearing a vote on the Emerald Isle is being pushed by politicians who promised not to do what they are now doing. OK, maybe this is not shocking anymore. But the bill is being sold as necessary to save the […]

Scalia: SCOTUS Decision Declares Marriage Supporters ‘Enemies of the Human Race’

Scalia: SCOTUS Decision Declares Marriage Supporters ‘Enemies of the Human Race’

Jun 27 13 • 1 comment

In a scathing dissenting opinion released yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia lambasted his fellow Supreme Court Justices for striking down a critical part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and predicted that it will only be a matter of time before the court finds a Constitutional right to gay “marriage.” Scalia labeled Wednesday’s decision “jaw-dropping,” […]

American Church

American Church

Jun 27 13 • 18 comments

In the question period after a talk I’d given on my new book, American Church, a woman raised an important point: “If the Church in the U.S. faces as many problems as you say, why is it doing so much better here than in much of Europe?” Great question. My answer–which I also give in […]

Lying is Normal, But Not Okay

Lying is Normal, But Not Okay

Jun 27 13 • 2 comments

You’ve caught your child fibbing time and time again — even about inconsequential things where telling the truth would not result in consequences. Do you have an issue with integrity? Is it a normal phase of child development? Or are you raising a serial liar? I’ll never understand why children try to lie their way […]

Gulliver Bound By Lilliputians

Wake Up, Gulliver: The Lilliputians Are Almost Done

Or is it already too late?

Abandoned by God?

Abandoned by God?

Jun 27 13 • 2 comments

It is late, almost midnight. The St. Louis Cardinals ballgame ended just a few moments ago, so I turn off the radio on the nightstand. Now, the house is quiet, the bedroom dark. The only sounds I can detect are the dog’s snoring and my wife’s soft breathing as she lays sleeping next to me. […]

Improvements and Ongoing Problems in Myanmar

Improvements and Ongoing Problems in Myanmar

Jun 26 13 • 0 comments

A local Catholic leader has taken a critical view of the progress of the reform process in Myanmar, noting some improvements amid ongoing problems. The Archbishop of Rangoon, Charles Bo, made his comments at an event organized by international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). According to the archbishop, “The democratic […]

'Exit International' Founder Briefly Detained Before Holding UK Suicide Workshops

‘Exit International’ Founder Briefly Detained Before Holding UK Suicide Workshops

Jun 26 13 • 0 comments

Australia’s leading euthanasia advocate, Dr. Philip Nitschke, was detained on Sunday night at London’s Gatwick Airport as he was attempting to enter the UK. He was held for over two hours overnight but eventually allowed to proceed. Dr. Nitschke has arrived to conduct his European “Nitro & Nembutal” workshops and speaking tour teaching people how […]

John B. Tabb - Priest-Poet

Tabb’s Poetry XXIV

Jun 26 13 • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

New Research: Unwanted Pregnancies Become Wanted Children

New Research: Unwanted Pregnancies Become Wanted Children

Jun 26 13 • 0 comments

From the stage at the recent Women Deliver conference, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who “did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide.” Chelsea’s grandmother was born of an unintended pregnancy. […]

Exchanging Liberty for Tyranny

Exchanging Liberty for Tyranny

Jun 26 13 • 0 comments

“The only foundation for .  .  . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” Benjamin Rush Conservative Christians like myself love quotes like this, and the nice thing […]

Abortion and Racism in America

Abortion and Racism in America

Jun 25 13 • 0 comments

Abortionist Douglas Karpen, who operates two abortion facilities in Houston, Texas, is currently under criminal investigation. His practice of twisting “babies’ heads off” their bodies in order to ensure that a late-term abortion results in death for the baby was discussed in exclusive live interviews with three of his former employees. And the fireworks began. […]

Catholic School Incisive, Not Divisive

Catholic School Incisive, Not Divisive

Jun 25 13 • 1 comment

I don’t know what President Obama was thinking. Speaking in Northern Ireland last week, he said Catholic schools are divisive: “If towns remain divided — if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden —that too encourages […]

Our Liberty, Our Duty

Our Liberty, Our Duty

Jun 25 13 • 0 comments
What are You Grateful For?

What are You Grateful For?

Jun 25 13 • 0 comments

The question stared back at me from the email sent by a nurses’ professional group where I hold membership. I read it on a wet, dreary morning as I fretted about having to go to work. I wondered aloud when I would ever win the lottery. Still feeling sorry that I wasn’t an instant millionaire […]

Punishing Kermit Gosnell

Punishing Kermit Gosnell

Jun 25 13 • 0 comments

There may be some people who say that justice was not done when Kermit Gosnell, the infamous Philadelphia abortionist who was convicted in May for hundreds of crimes, including three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of infants who survived late-term abortions, was sentenced to life in prison instead of the death penalty.  I […]

Five Things About Homeschooling I Didn't Expect

Five Things About Homeschooling I Didn’t Expect

Jun 24 13 • 0 comments

I have been hesitant to write about our first year of home schooling because I don’t know if my insights offer anything new, but nonetheless, we’ve done it and as anything else goes in life, it was a learning experience for us all. We are not home schooling zealots; we have public-schooled, parochial-schooled, and even […]