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The Brutal Reality of China's One Child Policy (Graphic Photo Warning)

The Brutal Reality of China’s One Child Policy (Graphic Photo Warning)

Jun 13 12 • 5 comments

While 37-year old and five month pregnant Cao Ruyi has been allowed to return home due to the global public outcry against family planning officials of Changsha city, a U.S. based human rights group Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is reporting that another young woman, 7-months pregnant with her second child, received a forced abortion in the Ankang City of  Zhenpin County. […]

Vegan Quits Day Job at Slaughterhouse

Vegan Quits Day Job at Slaughterhouse

Jun 12 12 • 7 comments

LifeSite News recently reported that “the Democratic Party is already losing seats to Republicans, as a growing number of elected officials are changing parties over issues like the right to life, the definition of marriage, and the Obama administration’s mandate that religious institutions cover abortion-inducing drugs in their health care plans.” Among the most recent […]

Can You Homeschool a Child with Autism?

Can You Homeschool a Child with Autism?

In some ways I was fortunate. We received the diagnosis that my son has Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of Autism, after we had already been homeschooling for two years. Therefore, I never had to wonder if I could homeschool a child on the autism spectrum – I was already doing it! A diagnosis merely […]

After-birth Abortion and the Ethics Community’s Descent Into Madness (Part I)

After-birth Abortion and the Ethics Community’s Descent Into Madness (Part I)

Jun 12 12 • 2 comments

In March of this year an article calling for the normalization of infanticide for any reason was published and created something of a stir. In the fluid dynamics of this election year, the malignancy of the article was quickly overtaken by other events, and it is worthy of a revisit in some detail, especially in […]

Orthodox and Catholics Pursuing New Approaches Together

Orthodox and Catholics Pursuing New Approaches Together

Jun 12 12 • 0 comments

Metropolitan Hilarion, responsible for the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, pointed out the joint tasks of members of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in a world characterized by materialism and consumerism at a meeting on Pentecost with the Executive President of the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). “We must […]

Tech Talk: My Resistance to a Smartphone

Tech Talk: My Resistance to a Smartphone

Jun 12 12 • 4 comments

When I whip my phone out of my pocket, people who know me well are usually surprised. It’s not an iPhone. It’s not an Android. It’s not smart, actually. It’s pretty much a regular phone, the kind your junior high niece is stuck with until she can pay her own data plan. And you know […]

Poem: "Earendel is Here…"

Poem: “Earendel is Here…”

Jun 12 12 • 0 comments

Earendel is Here… éala éarendel engla beorhtast / ofer middangeard monnum sended – Cynewulf Earendel is here, But not where you might find him In Tolkien’s Silmarillion Nor in a barque or nao A jewel in the prow But in another sphere Earendel is here In orbit overhead Like meteors that streak their trails And […]

On Bended Knee

On Bended Knee

Jun 11 12 • 0 comments

O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! (Psalm 95: 6) To kneel before God is a blessed thing. We are the only creatures who roam the earth with a free will, and the only ones with the freedom to give homage by kneeling to the One […]

Poem: "Boldly Speak our Bishops"

Poem: “Boldly Speak our Bishops”

Jun 10 12 • 0 comments

Boldly Speak our Bishops Inspired by Eph 6:10-17 Boldly speak our Bishops With unified conviction. Battling society’s illness Of secular affliction. Armed with Truth and Faith, Spirit-filled and Spirit-led Bishops guiding flocks through Rough waters lying ahead. Dare to stand for your faith! Catholic? Then let them know Your prayers and support are theirs And […]

The Eucharist: The Body of Christ?

The Eucharist: The Body of Christ?

The Catholic Church teaches that in the Eucharist, the communion wafer and the altar wine are transformed and really become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.  Have you ever met anyone who has found this Catholic doctrine to be a bit hard to take? If so, you shouldn’t be surprised.  When Jesus spoke about […]

Fiction: Ruach

Fiction: Ruach

Jun 8 12 • 0 comments

Ruach by Sylvia Dorham Dark ran it’s finger around the outskirts of the city like a child licking the last of the brownie batter from a wide bowl. Dusk settled first around skyscrapers and funneled down to the brownstones and nondescript buildings which housed businesses below upper-storey homes. The stars flew open and shone from […]

Life in a Wheelchair is Not as Awful as You Might Think

Life in a Wheelchair is Not as Awful as You Might Think

Jun 8 12 • 1 comment

This week the Sundance Channel premiered Push Girls, a new reality series about four women in wheelchairs. All of them have spinal cord injuries at various levels. Like me, three of them were paralyzed from car accidents, one from a ruptured blood clot in her spinal cord. After watching the first episode, I can’t say […]

 Movie Review: <i>Men in Black 3 (MIB3)</i>

Movie Review: Men in Black 3 (MIB3)

Sequels are hard.  “Men in Black 3” is no exception. After an attention-grabbing, keeping-in-the-MIB-mode (and a once-only-ultra-risqué scene) opening, “MIB3” strives in a ho-hum way to maintain the MIB quirky vibe and “odd couple” relationship between Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (a wan-looking Tommy Lee Jones). Each actor does their best with mediocre, […]

A Bad Week for Planned Parenthood

A Bad Week for Planned Parenthood

Poor Planned Parenthood. Even with unflagging support from the White House, lapdog allegiance from congressional Democrats and fawning coverage from most mainstream media outlets, America’s largest abortion provider cannot help looking ridiculous. The organization’s latest public relations debacle began on May 29, when the youth-led, pro-life activist group Live Action released a video showing a […]

Poem: "Rest"

Poem: “Rest”

Rest O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies, Hush’d in and curtain’d with a blessèd dearth Of all that irk’d her […]

Making a Tough Decision: The Economics of Putting Family First

Making a Tough Decision: The Economics of Putting Family First

Jun 7 12 • 2 comments

It was time to make another dreaded phone call telling  my wife that problems had come up and I wouldn’t be coming home the next day as scheduled. I was thousands of miles away, yet I could hear the disappointment in her voice as she tried to be understanding. She was used to this happening, […]

Misbehavior Destroys Importance of Ritual

Misbehavior Destroys Importance of Ritual

Jun 7 12 • 0 comments

Cap and gown? Check. Camera, videocamera and cellphone for instantly uploading photos to Facebook? Check. Umbrella to keep grandma from getting wet or overheating in the sun inside the football stadium? Check. Air horn, confetti, posters, noisemakers, beach balls, rubber snakes? Check. Let the commencement exercises commence. Earlier this month, graduating senior Chuck Shriner of […]

Women’s Health

Women’s Health

Jun 6 12 • 0 comments

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is fighting for the mandate in Obamacare designed force all health care plans to provide free (that is without a co-pay) contraception, morning after pills, and sterilization. She insists that this is a battle for women’s health. Those who see this as a question of religious freedom have let this claim pass […]

Rallies Call for Standing Up for Religious Freedom

Rallies Call for Standing Up for Religious Freedom

Jun 6 12 • 1 comment

When historians one day look back on the rise and fall of the American republic, it won’t only be our habitual deficit spending and lack of financial discipline they blame for our demise, but the deficit of faith and lack of religion in our children’s generation. The beliefs and values that once served as the […]

The Human Body in a "Mad" World

The Human Body in a “Mad” World

Jun 6 12 • 1 comment

Those who are up-to-date on the television series MadMen have an interesting episode to chew on as they await the season finale, but in the limited discussions I’ve followed since it aired, I have yet to see any reference to what I found the most profound point: the reverence due to the human body.   […]

Keeping Faith with Your Grandchildren

Keeping Faith with Your Grandchildren

Jun 6 12 • 0 comments

“Do you know any songs?” I asked my nearly 3-year-old granddaughter as the two us walked hand-in-hand to a nearby store. “Uh huh,” she answered. So I started “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and she joined in, shouting out the next word whenever I paused. Hmmm . . . “Father, Son, Holy Spirit,” I said, and she […]

Controversial New Guidelines Drafted for UK Doctors

Controversial New Guidelines Drafted for UK Doctors

A draft of new guidelines titled “Personal beliefs and medical practice” issued by the UK’s General Medical Council warns doctors that exercising their conscience rights to not prescribe contraceptives, including the abortifacient morning after pill, as well as not referring for abortion or performing “gender reassignment surgery,” could endanger their license to practice. “Serious or […]

Poem: "University Fees"

Poem: “University Fees”

Jun 6 12 • 0 comments

University Fees The learned men came to see What could be done about that tree Stout and strong and big and tall, Faith inside that garden’s wall. Machines and steel their only hope Sturdy chains and heavy rope, Wrap around that solid tree And yanked it for a student’s fee… One lone seed is lost […]

On the Vatican's Norms for Discerning Private Revelation, Part Two

On the Vatican’s Norms for Discerning Private Revelation, Part Two

Jun 5 12 • 0 comments

For part one, please click here. Overview of Normae S. Congregationis: The original copy of NC comprised a total of four pages in Latin.  It was signed by Francis Cardinal Seper, then Prefect of the CDF.  It was undersigned by Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P., then Secretary of the CDF. The document as a whole provides […]