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What I Learned from Having the Sikh Temple Shooting (Practically) in My Backyard

Sunday, August 5 was the date of our first annual parish picnic; little did we know that it would be a date marked on calendars for another reason. As we gathered to begin the 11:00 a.m. Liturgy, an ambulance raced down the street past the park. I’m sure most of the parishioners offered a Hail […]

Eliminating People to Help People?

Aug 7 12 • Wendy Wright • 0 comments

Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and […]

Special Ops Sergeant on Starvation

Aug 7 12 • Ryan Kraeger • 4 comments

In March of 2007, less than a month after I had turned twenty-two years old, I was deployed to Afghanistan with my engineer unit. I would remain in Afghanistan, with the exception of twenty day’s vacation in January of 2008, for the next fifteen months. At that point in my life my faith was quietly […]

Our Crosses Aren’t Forever

Aug 7 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 1 comment

The other day I had some precious free time which I was going to spend working on the computer. I set up my laptop on the kitchen table, went to grab something to drink, turned around and found my older son sitting at the computer settling himself in. “What are you doing?” I asked. “Working […]

Obama’s Progress

Aug 6 12 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 2 comments

Try to define progressivism. In fact, ask progressives to try to define progressivism. All we really know is that they’re, well, progressing. They and their ideas and their politics are always changing, evolving. This means that what they believe and hold fast and dear today may not be what they believe and hold fast and […]

Liberal Tyranny and the Cluck Heard ‘Round the World

Aug 6 12 • J. Matt Barber • 1 comment

Writer Sinclair Lewis is credited with saying, “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross.” Close, but not quite. Truth is, fascism has come to America; but it’s wrapped in a rainbow flag and waving, well, let’s just say it sure ain’t waving a cross. With its […]

Our Lady of All Nations: Approved?

Aug 6 12 • Kevin Symonds • 8 comments

From 1945-1959, Mrs. Ida Peerdeman of the Diocese of van Haarlem (Amsterdam) claimed to receive private revelations. The claims became known popularly as “Our Lady of All Nations” or simply “Amsterdam.”[i] The case was examined by the local Ordinary of van Haarlem, Bishop Johannes Huibers, who decided the claims were not supernatural in origin. His […]

Democrats Officially Abandon, “My Body, My Choice!”

Aug 6 12 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 1 comment

Here in the bluest of blue cities on the political map we have a mayor who has taxed cigarettes into the stratosphere (~$12 per pack) because he wants people to live healthier. The same mayor trampled the rights of business owners to create smoke-free restaurants and bars. The same mayor decided that trans fats were […]

Boys Will be Boys

Aug 6 12 • Cheryl Dickow • 0 comments

I remember when my first son was in need of his first haircut. I took him to a professional stylist and, with 35mm camera in hand, clicked away, literally walking around and around his seat, so that, once developed, the pictures would immortalize that very special day in my life, in his life, in the […]

Equal Persons, Unequal Acts

Aug 5 12 • Dale O'Leary • 0 comments

Those pushing the redefinition of marriage insist that all they want is equality. After all, aren’t persons with same-sex attraction equal as human beings to those without. Why should they be discriminated against? Of course they are human beings with all the rights of other human beings. The problem is not that the people aren’t […]

The Death-Haunted Art of Friendship: Part III

Aug 5 12 • Eve Tushnet • 0 comments

For Part I of this series, go here; for Part II, here. When I was a little girl, like all little girls, I was interested in naming and categorizing my relationships. You could be my friend, or you could be my best friend, and those things were totally different. I also had a temporary category […]

“Sex is”… What? Competing Visions

Aug 5 12 • Genevieve Kineke • 0 comments

Gore Vidal has died. Almost unknown to young adults, years ago he was considered the clever old man of belles lettres — a shocking rake with a bracing wit. The wit, though, distilled through the decades, comes down to us more as vinegar than aged claret, more snark than savvy. Mores the pity. We’d love […]

Aristotle and Manna: God’s Answer Meets Our Questions

Aug 4 12 • Mary Kochan • 3 comments

To feed the Israelites during their wandering time in the desert, the Lord caused to appear on the ground a flaky substance that tasted like pancakes with honey. At its first appearance, the people quite sensibly asked what everyone asks upon seeing something new, “What is it?” And that very question became their name for […]

In Search for Conciliar Clarity

Aug 4 12 • Louie Verrecchio • 0 comments

As a writer and speaker who frequently addresses topics related to the Second Vatican Council, I read with great interest Archbishop Gerhard Muller’s recent interview with Catholic News Agency (CNA) in which he was asked about the “doctrinal discussions” between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). While declaring his optimism […]

Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom

Aug 4 12 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 9 comments

Moonrise Kingdom is a tasty escape into an ordinary-magical world of a quirky bunch of pre-teens and their families in 1965. The film is highly-stylized, deeply amusing, and incredibly well-cast. The always unexpected writer-director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox) gives us a more-deadpan-than-“Napoleon Dynamite” romantic comedy. Involving twelve year olds. Set […]

Dear “Pro-Choice” NYer, You Got What You Asked For

Aug 4 12 • Stacy Trasancos • 0 comments

Dear “Pro-Choice” NYer, You wanted to do whatever you wanted to do with your body, and then claim you had a right to kill your own children when you conceived them because it was just so unfair for anyone to expect you to let a child ever use you against your will. You said you […]

What Guys Need to Know about Women

Aug 4 12 • Marge Fenelon • 10 comments

Some months back, my sister came to visit, and we had an interesting chat. Chris lives in New York and is a vice president at a very large and internationally-known corporation. She’s at the top of the corporate world, and at the forefront of women making their way in a “man’s world.” We were talking about the need […]

Echoes of God

Aug 4 12 • Stuart James • 0 comments

(Editor’s Note: The following inspiring essay resides on the popular UK blog, eChurch Blog and is written by the site’s webmaster, Stuart James. It is reprinted below with his permission.) Many of us dream of a world filled with justice, peace, equality, harmony, beauty, tranquility, security, permanence, plenty and sometimes we may glimpse for a moment, […]

Poem: “Memorial”

Aug 4 12 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Memorial O dragon, dragon, what tower do you build? A tower built in Babylon at which the worm is skilled, Skulls are of the walls of it, mortar made of bone, Who can know the plan of it? Only I alone War and hunger are my slaves, fire is my heart With which to melt […]

Catholic but Mentally Ill

Aug 4 12 • Anthony Schefter • 12 comments

I have another reason to count my blessings these days: My sleep rhythms have settled down. I can consistently sleep 9 hours a night and arise refreshed in the morning. Sounds like a pretty small triumph, doesn’t it? But I remember the days not so long ago when I was sleeping twelve hours or more, […]

America Needs a Baby Boom

Aug 3 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

Elizabeth Crnkovich also contributed to this article. Social security is about to go belly up, financially speaking. And at the head of this crisis is a demographic disproportion: there are simply too few young people coming into the workforce to support the increasing numbers of elderly baby boomers who are retiring. In “What’s Really Behind […]

So Much for Tolerance

Aug 3 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 0 comments

Remember “live and let live” — or, as the gay-rights variation goes, “live and let love?” Remember that heady time not so long ago when Americans concerned about the unintended consequences of same-sex marriage were told that we had nothing to fear because the redefinition of marriage to accommodate gays and lesbians would not affect […]

Corporate Exercise of Religion and Other Thoughts on Mandate Litigation

Aug 2 12 • Marc O. DeGirolami • 0 comments

There has been a curious silence in the news and on the blogs about the preliminary injunction in Newland v. Sebelius. True, there are some unique issues involving the nature of the plaintiffs, but the case may indicate the direction that courts which get over the ripeness hump and do reach the Religious Freedom Restoration Act […]

The Broken Path

Aug 2 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 5 comments

I opened my mail and found a review copy of The Broken Path: How Catholic Bishops Got Lost in the Weeds of American Politics by Judie Brown. I decided I was probably too busy to even read it. Three chapters into it, I felt I had no choice but to write a review. When I […]