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Blame the UN’s Power on George H.W. Bush

If Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were the naïfs who foisted the United Nations on the world, George H. W. Bush was responsible for its revival as a political force. From about 1950 to 1990, the United Nations Security Council was essentially toothless, as the Soviet and U.S. governments disagreed on issue after […]

Despite Economic and Social Ills, Blacks Give Obama a Pass

Feb 7 12 • Anthony B. Bradley • 0 comments

With the celebration of Black History Month we are reminded of the historic presidency of Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president. Some black leaders, however, believe that Mr. Obama has let the black community down. For example, prominent voices like Dr. Cornell West and PBS’s Tavis Smiley, former supporters of Obama, believe that having […]

Court Rules California Amendment Defending Marriage is ‘Unconstitutional’

Feb 7 12 • Ben Johnson • 0 comments

This morning, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled by a 2-1 vote that a California constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman is unconstitutional. In an 89-page ruling that cited William Shakespeare and Marilyn Monroe, Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote, “Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and […]

Matched Gifts This Month Can Boost Choose Life License Plate Program

Feb 7 12 • Russ Amerling • 0 comments

In 2011 Texas became the latest state to make the Choose Life plate available. The Choose Life plate is now in 25 states and has raised over $14 million for the cause of life and adoption in those states. We have started new teams in Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island and Iowa and in 2012 we expect […]

Caesar Overreaching Once Again

Feb 7 12 • G. Tracy Mehan, III • 1 comment

What do political pundits Peggy Noonan, Chris Matthews, E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Mark Shields have in common? Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, is Catholic. Matthews and Dionne claim to be loyal but dissident Catholics at least on matters such as contraception (Dionne) and public policy on abortion (Matthews). Mark Shields, another Catholic, is […]

Jihad: When Elections Fail

Feb 7 12 • Raymond Ibrahim • 1 comment

The Obama administration supports “democracy” and “self determination” in the Middle East—two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to “mob-rule” and “Islamic radicalization,” respectively. Yet, as Jimmy Carter recently put it: “I don’t have any problem with that [an “Islamist victory” in Egypt], and the U.S. government doesn’t have any problem with that either. […]

Christopher West Refines His Answers, But Questions Remain

Feb 7 12 • Brian Killian • 18 comments

At the Heart of the Gospel, the new book by Christopher West, is the fruit of West’s sabbatical from speaking after controversy broke following a television interview. West’s new book is primarily two things. First, it’s a summary of the main points of West’s lectures and writings over the years. West takes a deep breath, […]

How to Behave at Mass

Feb 7 12 • Dorothy Pilarski • 10 comments

I don’t know if I am getting old, but have you noticed that people don’t seem to know how to behave at Mass anymore? I will never forget the day I was at Sunday Mass, when a well-meaning dad pulled out a very large plastic bag from the Dollar Store. In it, he had a big new toy for his […]

Poem: “Love III”

Feb 7 12 • George Herbert • 2 comments

Love (III) Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin, But quick-eyed Love, Observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew near to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked anything? A guest, I answered, worthy to be here: Love said, You should be he. I the unkind, […]

Komen and Planned Parenthood: The Real Story

Feb 6 12 • Steven D. Greydanus • 1 comment

As far as I can tell, the real story at the center of this week’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation / Planned Parenthood debacle is not that Komen cut off Planned Parenthood from existing funding. (They didn’t. Existing grants were to be honored for over a year.) Nor is it that Komen […]

Scientists Want to Engineer “Three-Parent” Human Beings

Feb 6 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 1 comment

The 3-genetic parent embryo is back in the news. This time it is Australia that wants to attempt to genetically engineer a human embryo to have 3 genetic parents. Why would scientists want to engineer an embryo with the genetic material from 3 people? Because, they think it will “prevent” the inheritance of mitochondrial disease. Not all […]

I Think it was Love at First Sight

Feb 6 12 • Parenting is Funny • 0 comments

I was riding the ski lift with one of my pupils, a little girl of roughly seven years. She could not keep her eyes off me. I thought it was really sweet, having a crush on her teacher, as it were. When we reached the top and the ski lift stopped, she finally spoke to […]

The Modern Day Outlaws

Feb 6 12 • Ebeth Weidner • 0 comments

Talking with my sister-in-law, a maternity ward nurse, the other day about the new Health and Human Services mandate (HHS), I was curious about how things are going since she works at a Catholic hospital. She told me her hospital is totally orthodox and performs no procedures that would hurt or prevent or end life at all. […]

<em>Monsters, Inc</em>: A Door into the Hearts of Post-abortive Fathers

Monsters, Inc: A Door into the Hearts of Post-abortive Fathers

Feb 6 12 • Dorothy Joseph • 0 comments

A few years ago, we lost our DVD of Monsters, Inc. (2001, PIXAR) in a basement flood. It was a small disappointment, and every once in a while our kids mentioned how much they would like to see it again, but it was one of those back-burner “wants.” This Christmas season, we bought a copy and […]

You are Accountable: Address to Wash. State Lawmakers on Same-Sex Marriage

Feb 6 12 • Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse • 1 comment

I am here today to address those of you who have already made up your minds to redefine marriage. History will not be kind to you. Previous generations of social experimenters have caused unimaginable misery for millions of people. Particular people advocated the policies that led to today’s 50% divorce rate and 40% out of […]

How to Measure a Life

Feb 6 12 • Stu Walker • 1 comment

Anada Mary Kuboushek went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, January 26, 2012. She was bornDecember 31, 1919. That makes her 92 years old. You don’t know her. I barely knew her. But I loved her. Anada lived across from my parish church, St. Michael’s Catholic Church inPrior Lake, innesota. I have been […]

Why a Child is a Good Idea

Feb 6 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 6 comments

Today, in “Annie’s Mailbox” newspaper column, a woman who admitted having no desire for children wrote: “Babies are messy, leaky, smelly and noisy, as well as demanding and expensive.” The woman is accurate. It is not logical to have a child. A baby will drain your bank account and rob you of sleep. It will […]

Three Wrong Reasons to Become a Religious

Feb 6 12 • Kevin Banet • 0 comments

You may think you have a religious vocation, but do you? A recent post on a Catholic social media website warned of three faulty motivations of those who were attracted to religious life. The post said that the candidate might see religious life as 1) a refuge from a hostile world, 2) an attraction to […]

<em>Filly Brown</em> and The Sundance Experience

Filly Brown and The Sundance Experience

Feb 6 12 • Paul Radford • 0 comments

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival welcomed the premiere of Filly Brown, the directing debut of Youssef Delara and Michael Olmos. Majo Tonorio (a.k.a. Filly Brown) is an aspiring hip-hop musician from the tough streets of Los Angeles. After pairing up with a talented DJ, Majo cuts a recording with a small-time promoter before catching the […]

Euthanasia In Europe: From Horror To Hope

Feb 5 12 • Carlos Beltramo • 1 comment

The problems of euthanasia and end-of-life issues are extremely complicated ones, and trying to solve these problems through legislation is often difficult. While the intentional killing of an innocent human being is always morally wrong, one cannot deny that there are real-world cases where the line blurs between what is permitted and what is not. […]

Poem: “In His Place III”

Feb 5 12 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 0 comments

In His Place III Along the path up Calvary I looked for you but couldn’t see You in the crowd that followed me Up the road to Calvary. I stopped my step and looked around At all the faces, but never found You by my side while I was bound To my cross and thorny […]

Movie Review: <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</em>

Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Feb 5 12 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 0 comments

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the story of a boy who loses his father in the Twin Towers on 9/11. Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) seems to have Asperger’s syndrome, and his dad (Tom Hanks) was the only one who really understood his brainy but socially awkward and phobia-ridden son. Oskar’s relationship with his mother […]

What We Must Learn From Komen

Feb 4 12 • Toni Collins • 6 comments

I’ve said it for years: While we pro-lifers have been busy trying to change the laws, the other side has been busy changing people’s hearts. Never has this been more apparent than in the about face displayed this week by Susan G. Komen for the Cure. On January 31, 2012, the Associated Press reported that […]

Anxiety About Being Single

Feb 4 12 • Anthony Buono • 4 comments

Anyone who is not yet married give a little cringe when hearing the words of St. Paul in the second reading of the Mass this past Sunday, taken from 1 Corinthians, Chapter 7:32-35. Basically, the advice of St. Paul is to remain unmarried because to marry is a distraction to focusing on the things of […]