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Ryan Focuses Catholic Debate

Aug 17 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 4 comments

Even before Gov. Mitt Romney made his vice presidential selection last week, Catholic voters were at the center of this year’s presidential election. President Barack Obama’s controversial contraceptive mandate — and his refusal to brook any meaningful compromise for religious institutions that object to it — had sparked a fierce backlash among many Catholics and […]

What Can We Learn from the Stem Cell Debates

Aug 17 12 • Brendan Foht • 1 comment

A report from The Witherspoon Council, a newly-formed bioethics body, argues that even the noblest aspirations of the scientific enterprise must be guided by ethics and governed under political authority. The stem cell debates of the past decade and a half were among the most heated controversies about science and politics in recent memory, raising […]

God and Seeker at Boston College

Aug 17 12 • Trent Beattie • 1 comment

Students at Boston College who learn solid proofs for the existence of God have an atheist professor to thank. A little over 20 years ago, a history professor at the Jesuit college was advocating atheism in one of his classes. When Jesuit Father Ronald Tacelli, a professor of philosophy, learned of the class, he thought […]

Christian Revolution Under Constantine: 1700th Anniversary Series, Part 2

Aug 17 12 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 0 comments

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Prose Introduction to My Poem, Constantine’s Flight to Constantius Diocletian had been governing the Roman Empire since 284, eventually establishing his headquarters at Nicomedia in western Asia Minor. Nine years into his reign, Diocletian set up the First Tetrarchy (293-305), dividing the Empire into four huge […]

What Motivated Nellie Gray

Aug 16 12 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

News reached our prolife movement this week that Nellie Gray, who founded and led the annual March for Life, has died. What motivated Nellie Gray to be so passionate, so focused, about ending abortion? Nellie served as a corporal in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. As she did her desk job […]

Free Love and Other Redundant Phrases

Aug 16 12 • Nic Davidson • 0 comments

We’ve all had that “ah-ha” moment, right, men? The one where you’re baking a meringue, blaring J-Lo, and you suddenly ask yourself, “Does love really not cost a thing?”. Or, ladies, when you’re working out to The Beatles and, right as you reach your personal chin-up record, it hits you that indeed, money CAN’T buy […]

Children: The New Underdog

Aug 16 12 • Marjorie Campbell • 0 comments

Children have no voice setting public policy. They are legally, physically and emotionally dependent. They cannot vote. They cannot form non-profits, produce surveys or express their preferences. Their rights are severely limited, by the law of the land and by the intimacy of family operations. They live and die as charges of adults they did […]

Growing Older Beautifully

Aug 16 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

“Mom, can I count your grey hairs?” my nine-year-old asked me the other day as he started to poke at my head. He eventually abandoned the task, deciding that there were too many. Last week, I walked into my parents’ house and my mom declared, “Wow! I love your new haircut. It makes you look […]

Rejecting In Vitro Fertilization for All the Right Reasons

Aug 15 12 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Astounded, I had to take a seat when I read the latest from Rebecca Taylor. Taylor, a clinical laboratory technologist in molecular biology—and a Catholic—wrote about the horrendous results of man’s unbridled lust for controlling the human being and his ability to either live or die. Discussing Great Britain’s statistics, she reports, The United Kingdom’s Human […]

Key West Says No to “Robo-Frankenstein Mosquitoes”

Aug 15 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 3 comments

Dengue Fever afflicts millions of people around the world. It is a virus that is spread by a specific mosquito, the Aedes aegypti. Dengue fever can develop into a more serious disease Dengue hemorrhagic fever which can be fatal. Aedes aegyptiis native to Africa, but has spread to other areas including the southern United States. […]

Newswoman’s Analysis Betrays Bias … Or is it Ignorance?

Aug 15 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 3 comments

It must be said: What NBC newswoman Andrea Mitchell knows about suburban moms would fit on the back of a postage stamp. Ms. Mitchell, reporting from Virginia at the Saturday rally where Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate, announced with authority that Mr. Ryan was “not a pick for suburban […]

Christians, Silence is Not an Option

Aug 15 12 • J. Matt Barber • 0 comments

The secular left has mastered use of the Internet to further its extremist goals. In fact, President Obama’s web-based “Organizing for America” propaganda machine may have given him the 2008 election. Let’s beat them at their own game. To that end, I have a strange request. I’m asking each God-fearing, freedom-loving American who reads this […]

The Catholic Press Needs to Get Over Its Father Maciel Syndrome

Aug 15 12 • Fr. Gordon J. MacRae • 1 comment

The Catholic Press Association’s June convention handed out lots of awards, but none was for covering the story of Catholic priests falsely accused. This is Part II of a post I wrote [on my blog] at this time last year entitled “The High Cost of Father Marcial Maciel and Why I Resent Paying It.” To […]

Spiritual Growth Within a Catholic Family, Part One

Aug 15 12 • Pat Gohn • 0 comments

Long ago, our first house had a growth chart on the inside of a bedroom door. Now and again, we’d line up our three little children and place a ruler atop their heads. Then we’d pencil a line alongside their respective heights, along with the date, and their initials – marking growth over time. Something […]

A Brief Catechesis on Mental Illness and Violence

Aug 15 12 • Jeff McLeod • 4 comments

The first written catechism of the Catholic Church, known as the Didache, and dated somewhere in the first century A.D., begins with a sentence of great clarity. It should be memorized: “There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways.” Discussions of the recent mass murders, […]

Cardinal Dolan’s Endgame

Aug 14 12 • Louie Verrecchio • 15 comments

My most recent column, “In Defense of Cardinal Dolan,” generated quite a bit of feedback. Some readers were convinced that it reflected a sense of false hope born of naiveté; others thought they detected a rather large dose of satire. For the record, one of these assessments is correct, but I’ll leave it to you […]

Obama Waives Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers

Aug 14 12 • Lisa Correnti • 2 comments

The Washington Times reported the Obama administration waived sanctions that would prevent countries from receiving foreign aid for violating the Child-Soldier Prevention Act. Obama, who co-sponsored the legislation in 2008 as an Illinois senator, has now permitted aid to countries that have used children as young as 11 to fight under a “national interest” exclusion within […]

U.S. March for Life Founder Nellie Gray Passes Away

Aug 14 12 • John Jalsevac • 0 comments

One of the leading lights of the pro-life movement in the United States has gone out. Nellie Gray, the charismatic octogenarian founder of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., the largest annual pro-life event in the country, passed away over the weekend, and was discovered in her apartment yesterday. Gray, who was once […]

The Road to Rome, Part 1: Why Not Anglicanism?

Aug 14 12 • Jason Liske • 2 comments

This is the first of six articles relating the writer’s journey into the bosom of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. Having succumbed to spiritual desolation following the rejection of his Adventist heritage, the young seeker investigates various Christian traditions, hoping to discover the Truth. In my first steps back towards Christ, with the […]

Who is Paul Ryan?

Aug 14 12 • Anna Williams • 11 comments

As you’ve likely heard by now, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced this weekend that Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would be his running mate. Ryan, a practicing Catholic, is best known for his work as chairman of the House Budget Committee; his proposals have made him a favorite of conservatives and a despised enemy […]

<i>Disorientation</i>: How to Go to College without Losing Your Mind

Disorientation: How to Go to College without Losing Your Mind

Aug 14 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 3 comments

The world of academia during the Seventies opened our minds so wide that our brains seemed to fall out. False teachings often undermined faith and morals. Yet, we came away believing we were more highly evolved than when we went in. I recall one professor warning a class of seniors: “You will be surprised that […]

Romney Solidifies Pro-Life Stance With Ryan Pick

Aug 13 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

You have to love a Congressman who doesn’t equivocate on the Life issues. Here is Paul Ryan to the Weekly Standard’s John McCormack: “I’m as pro-life as a person gets.” Here is Ryan responding to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels controversial suggestion for a “truce” on the Life issues: “You’re not going to have a truce. […]

Spiritual Food for Our Troops!

Aug 13 12 • Jann FritzHuspen • 4 comments

Maybe it comes from watching too many M*A*S*H reruns where Father Mulcahy seemed to be right there whenever a soldier needed him, but I always assumed that our service men and women had easy access to a chaplain whenever they need one. I also assumed they could easily attend regular religious services. But with U.S […]

The Dignity of Work

Aug 13 12 • Cheryl Dickow • 1 comment

“From the beginning therefore he [man] is called to work. Work is one of the characteristics that distinguish man from the rest of creatures, whose activity for sustaining their lives cannot be called work. Only man is capable of work, and only man works, at the same time by work occupying his existence on earth. Thus work […]