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The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers

Things are mighty heated these days. Tempers are flaring and minds are closed. Here’s the solution: the wit and wisdom of Will Rogers. “The short memory of voters is what keeps our politicians in office.” “We’ve got the best politicians that money can buy.” “A fool and his money are soon elected.” Rogers spoke these […]

How to Help an Aging Parent Who Refuses Help

Apr 18 13 • Dale Carter • 0 comments

During my speaking tours around the country, I get a chance to hear what is on the minds and hearts of adult children, the challenges that are the toughest for them to deal with. One question I hear over and over goes something like this, “We see our parents struggling with their living situation, and […]

What I Saw at the Gosnell Trial

Apr 17 13 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 5 comments

I spent the day yesterday in Philadelphia at the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. The prosecution in the Gosnell murder trial seems to be nearing the conclusion of its work. A small courtroom, able to hold about 70 people, but mostly empty throughout the day, was the site yesterday of this ongoing trial that looks […]

Timid Men

Apr 17 13 • Louie Verrecchio • 0 comments

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson A recent video by Fr. Robert Barron, “Gay Marriage and the Breakdown of Moral Argument,” called to mind just how right Jefferson was. In his commentary, Fr. Barron said: In his great text, After Virtue, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre […]

A Reflection on Pregnancy After an Abortion

Apr 17 13 • Beatrice Fedor • 1 comment

I am pregnant with our fourth child, but this is my sixth pregnancy. Alicia and Gabriel were lost to abortion in 1994 and 2000 (may they rest in peace). This is one of the things women are never told: when the timing is “right” for a “wanted” child, they will have to answer routine questions […]

Why People With a Colorful Past Evangelize

Apr 17 13 • Anabelle Hazard, Esq. • 9 comments

I’m not wildly enthusiastic about showing my children pictures of me between 16 years old and 26, a full decade when I was the walking epitome of what not to be when you are young, single, and clueless about your Catholic faith. I didn’t exactly punk-out Duran Duran style in the eighties but I did […]

A Garden of Visible Prayer

Apr 17 13 • Ellen Gable Hrkach • 1 comment

The approach of spring is an excellent time to think of gardening. One of the projects on my bucket list is to create a beautiful flower garden in my “sacred space” near the statue of Our Lady in the forest adjoining our home. As my children were growing, then as I began writing fiction, this […]

Tabb’s Poetry XV

Apr 17 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

An Abortion Ghoul’s Chamber of Horrors

Apr 17 13 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

Last week, I wrote a column entitled “Brutality in the Brave New World” discussing an appalling movement within the scientific community in which researchers are exploring the “therapeutic” potential of the eggs of aborted baby girls. In a similar vein, a bioethicist writing for the Huffington Post in 2009 famously suggested that pregnant women wanting […]

Is God a Methodist? <em>42</em> Inspires and Moves

Is God a Methodist? 42 Inspires and Moves

Apr 16 13 • G. Tracy Mehan, III • 1 comment

In an opening scene of Brian Helgeland’s moving film, 42, Branch Rickey, the famous president of the Brooklyn Dodgers and played by Harrison Ford, is reviewing files of potential black baseball players whom he might bring into major league baseball in the face of inevitable hate, vitriol, and racism. He picks up Jackie Robinson’s file. “He’s […]

Poem: “Beneath the Weight”

Apr 16 13 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Beneath the Weight Beneath the weight of death we’d break If God did not lift up that mass, Why? For love and mercy’s sake Until the weight of death should pass Even God had strained and groaned So heavy did our burden prove, That when He moved away that stone It was eternity He moved […]

Are You Just a Mother?

Apr 16 13 • Brent Stubbs • 0 comments

We’ve all heard the new modern meme: You’re just a mom? or You are just a mom! or Are you just a mom? or Oh, you are just a mom. I put a question mark at the end of that first iteration for a reason. Today, more than ever, women — mothers in particular — […]

The Sky is Crying: John Adams Repents

Apr 16 13 • John Kirkwood • 1 comment

A generation that never learns accountability and sacrifice will not value their inheritance.

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The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100

Apr 15 13 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 4 comments

In no time, progressives learned they could never get enough.

A Covenant Against Porn

Apr 15 13 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

Pornography is becoming more prevalent and more accepted not only in the wider culture but also within family life. With primetime TV getting more explicit, hundreds of cables stations to surf, and the internet and digital devices flooded with indecent sites and tweets, parents can feel overwhelmed and helpless. Parents, don’t despair! You are still […]

Dr. Kermit Gosnell - Philadelphia Clinic

Violence On Their Behalf

Apr 14 13 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

The babies have to be destroyed to save the next generation of babies from being punished with babies.

Poem: “A Flower’s Beatitude”

Apr 14 13 • Daniel Meola • 0 comments

A Flower’s Beatitude A poem dedicated to my wife The colorful glee of a flower’s bloom, tragically dies, If it does not touch joyful and receptive eyes. For flowers yearn to not only survive but to grow in the human soul, To avoid wilting into merely natural wholes. What a mysterious paradox of a natural […]

Not the Devil, but Silver-Tongued

Apr 13 13 • Tom Purcell • 1 comment

The devil is in the details. Maybe I’d better explain. As it goes, the hit History Channel show, “The Bible,” was recently called out because the actor playing the part of Satan, Moroccan-born Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni, looks eerily similar to President Obama. I don’t think Obama is the devil, but he surely has one characteristic […]

Weekly Wits: 4/13/13

Apr 13 13 • Cartoon Editor • 0 comments

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Marriage Is What It Is

Apr 13 13 • J. Matt Barber • 2 comments

“It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” said the smooth-talking, skirt-chasing, totally busted philanderer. “Well, no, Bill,” replied Congress. “Actually, things just ‘is’ what they is.” Here’s what marriage is: The God-ordained, lifelong, covenantal union between man and wife, designed to provide men, women and children optimal stability and overall well-being. […]

The Great Sermon

Apr 12 13 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

It was an astounding event. Truly remarkable, and clearly historical. Truth be told, I had never seen or experienced anything quite like it. It happened in one of the wealthiest and most powerful cities in the United States. Indeed, in the world. The setting was most fitting. A magnificent cathedral with giant stained glass windows […]

Love Conquers, Not Man

Apr 12 13 • J. R. Baldwin • 0 comments

A male reader of my post “This Modern Love” wrote an aside of how “man conquers woman” in the courtship process. He gave a personal example and said that though he did all the right things (e.g. gave her flowers, wrote her letters), he did not win her heart. He also wrote that, at one […]

The Terrible Teenage Years?

Apr 11 13 • Marybeth Hicks • 1 comment

To: Marybeth From: Preteen Parent How do I survive a moody 12-year-old daughter without damaging our relationship (or killing her)? I find it very hard to allow her the power to ruin a family event, even a meal, with her gloom. Some days she is a pure delight (engaged, happy, articulate, intelligent) and the next […]

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell By The Numbers

Break the Gosnell Media Blackout – Friday, April 12th

Apr 11 13 • E. L. Core • 3 comments

Dr. Kermit Gosnell — a “barbaric” “monster” — is on trial in Philadelphia for murdering one woman and seven babies. The major TV networks and big-city newspapers want America to know nothing about it, so they are ignoring the story: a deliberate conspiracy of silence, demonstrating their intellectual and moral depravity. Kirsten Powers, a Democratic […]

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