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CDC Shows Large Drop in Abortions for 2009, Part One

Nov 29 12 • Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D • 0 comments

Abortion numbers, rates, and ratios for 2009 have been released by the government’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), indicating significantly fewer abortions than found in the previous year’s report. And while the decrease is most welcomed, the abortion industry likes to act as if women no longer died from abortion once it became legal. In […]

Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?

Nov 29 12 • Thomas Storck • 1 comment

There is a saying of G.K. Chesterton’s about economics that one finds frequently quoted, but often it seems with little attempt to understand what Chesterton meant or might have meant, especially in the context of his entire economic thought. Now most people know that Chesterton was a Distributist, but since there is some confusion in […]

Disability Treaty Goes to Senate Floor

Nov 29 12 • Lisa Correnti • 0 comments

Senator Reid made a motion yesterday to move the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to executive session. The motion passed allowing debate to follow. Foreign Relations committee chairman Sen. John Kerry followed with an opening statement in which he tried to assure senators that the convention would not grant any new […]

Book Review: A Winter Dream

Nov 29 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Judging from the front cover of A Winter Dream, which features a lit-up Christmas tree, one might expect that this latest offering from best-selling author Richard Paul Evans is a Christmas story. It is not; it is a story for every season. While it does open with a dream that includes a Christmas-type tree, this […]

Choosing Light and Life in an Age of Darkness

Nov 29 12 • Cynthia Trainque • 0 comments

“Women have the right to choose” is the battle cry of the Pro-Choice. But choose what? The right to choose is never an end in itself. The right to choose is about being able to choose that which is good. “Women have a right to do what they want with their own body.” Do they […]

America’s Pediatricians Claim the Right to Contracept Your Kids

Nov 29 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 1 comment

Parents are Not to Know (But They are Expected to Pay) The day before Thanksgiving, I got a call from a harried reporter. “The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a statement on “Emergency Contraception,” he said. “I’d like to get your take on it.” The 10-page document turns out to be a full-throated endorsement […]

The LBJ Curse on the Black Vote

Nov 29 12 • Anthony B. Bradley • 0 comments

Gov. Mitt Romney’s devastating loss to President Barack Obama is producing all sorts of interesting discussion. The analysis shows, again, a clear preference that minorities had for Obama. For example, according to exit polling data at Fox News, President Obama received 93 percent of the black vote. Over the years, the GOP made honest attempts […]

How Many Shopping Days ’til Christmas?

Nov 29 12 • Kate Daneluk • 0 comments

Yes, the secularism, the retail racquet, the commercialism has taken over our American culture and it is never more apparent than in this final month before Christmas. “Good grief!” you may despair. But do not fear. The true meaning of Christmas is still strong with people of Good Will. The best way to effect change […]

One Thousand Babies

Nov 28 12 • Susan H. Gray • 0 comments

Earlier this year, the pro-life community in southeast Russia celebrated a significant milestone. It was the birth of a baby boy named Denis. What was so important about little Denis? He was the 1,000th baby brought into this world through the assistance of the Adopt-a-Birth program in Vladivostok. The Adopt-a-Birth program is the brainchild of […]

Respecting Your Mental Powers

Nov 28 12 • Mary Kochan • 1 comment

“All men by nature desire to know.” So Aristotle begins his Metaphysics. We desire to know what is and we desire to know it truly and this desire is “by nature” — as every parent of a miniature metaphysician can testify, for “what?” and “why?” are the words his child’s mind lives by from morning to […]

On Writing in Dark Times

Nov 28 12 • Susannah Black • 2 comments

In a (very) recent episode of the confessional Lutheran podcast “Issues, Etc.,” Matt Harrison, interviewing Allan Carlson, reflected on the meaning of the recent election for social conservatives. I’m sure we’ve all been immersed in this sort of thinking, this past week or so: Harrison said that “while there’s not an inevitability to this, we may […]

The Petraeus Affair in Context

Nov 28 12 • Ryan Grant • 0 comments

We’ve all encountered the media spectacle of General Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. In fact I’m sure most of us are quite sick of hearing about it. For me it hearkens back to the days of President Clinton and the 24-7 coverage of that sex scandal. Today, just as then, the media is […]

Restoring the Foundations of Civil Society

Nov 28 12 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

In the wake of President Obama’s decisive reelection, the GOP is engaged in some serious soul-searching. Pundits on the Right and Left are cautioning Republicans that their party is facing extinction unless some major changes are made. They maintain it’s evolve or die for the GOP. The question is, how much can an institution change […]

Advent: A Time to Prepare for the Lord’s Coming

Nov 28 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in […]

German Fed Court: No Patenting Stem Cells Obtained Through Destruction of Human Embryos

Nov 28 12 • J.C. von Krempach, J.D. • 0 comments

The German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH = the supreme judicial instance in Germany in all matters pertaining to civil law) has yesterday issued the final decision in the case Brüstle vs. Greenpeace. Mr. Brüstle is a German researcher who has submitted a patent claim with regard to embryonic stemcells. Greenpeace is an environmentalist NGO that […]

“Two and a Half Men” Teen is the Real Grown-Up

Nov 28 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 1 comment

Another of the stars of the hit CBS comedy “Two and a Half Men” has imploded, metaphorically speaking, but this time I’m betting the damage to the actor’s career is beyond repair. Recall that in March 2011, Charlie Sheen’s erratic behavior on the set and off finally resulted in his being canned by the producers […]

A Spoonful of Grace

Nov 27 12 • Mary Kochan • 1 comment

The little boy is playing happily on the kitchen floor. Mommy is busy above, at the counter, far over his head. Things are being retrieved from the cupboards and fridge, but the little boy pays scant attention for he has lately become fascinated with tracing the design on the vinyl floor with his toy car. […]

UNFPA Promotes Social Engineering Through Family Planning

Nov 27 12 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 0 comments

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) drew international headlines this past week for claiming a new human right to contraception. Contraception as a human right is a centerpiece of UNFPA’s annual state of world population report “By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights, and Development”. Borrowing from the language of natural law, the executive summary […]

<em>Unnatural Law?</em> An Interview with Fr. John Hollowell

Unnatural Law? An Interview with Fr. John Hollowell

Nov 27 12 • Catholic Lane Editor • 5 comments

A particular “hot-button” issue facing contemporary American culture concerns homosexuality and the Catholic Church. The general position of the Catholic Church on homosexuality is fairly well-known: homosexual acts are a sin and the inclination to these acts is intrinsically disordered. Despite the above formulation, many people do not understand why the Church has taken the […]

Blasted Twinkie Killers!

Nov 27 12 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

Drat! I’m bummed—saddened by the news that the Hostess company, home of the Twinkie and other venerable sugary snacks, is shutting down. I’ll bet I haven’t eaten more than three or four Twinkies in the last 30 years, so the demise of Hostess doesn’t adversely impact my lifestyle. It’s just that, for baby boomers like […]

Comforting the Emotionally Challenged Child

Nov 27 12 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 1 comment

From the time they were very young, my kids have been drawn to soft fabrics. Christopher wears his footie pajamas on the hottest summer nights. Sarah’s retinue of stuffed animals requires so much space I often find her hanging off the bed at night. (Getting her to sleep under the covers is a chore because, […]

Poem: “Cutthroat: A Friendly Game of Words with Friends”

Nov 27 12 • María Morera Johnson • 0 comments

Cutthroat: A Friendly Game of Words with Friends The letters mock me As they line up In alphabetical order And challenge me to rearrange them In some semblance Of brilliance To disarm my opponent — Or at least Block that triple Dangling its Promise of a high Score — If I can’t have it She […]

Witnessing in the Here and Now

Nov 26 12 • Genevieve Kineke • 2 comments

Having offered my initial response to the election of 2012, I promised a more positive column, and that promise is easy to fulfill—Christ is risen, and faith in him is stronger than death. Although I missed living in the 1950’s by a hair’s breadth, that decades’s culture was long celebrated in movies, books, and music. […]

Natural Family Planning and Communication

Nov 26 12 • Ellen Gable Hrkach • 4 comments

Lack of communication is one of the leading causes of marital breakdown. For the NFP-using couple, communication is essential. Procrastination isn’t an option. The NFP couple discusses whether or not they will be avoiding or planning pregnancy. In order to be successful at this, it’s necessary to discuss the woman’s signs of fertility and infertility. […]