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Reining In Judicial Supremacists

Judicial activism occurs when judges depart from their constitutional role of interpreting law and make law from the bench. It’s a pernicious practice that undermines the democratic process, and it has been with us for a long time. American judicial history is filled with instances where judges usurped authority that did not belong to them […]

Big Win for Traditional Family at UN Human Rights Council

Jul 15 15 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 0 comments

A monumental development for the pro-family movement came recently in Geneva when the Human Rights Council approved a resolution calling for countries to take concrete steps to protect the family, described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the “natural and fundamental group unit of society.” This is the second such resolution at the […]

What Do <em>Twilight</em>, <em>Fifty Shades</em>, and Leviticus Have in Common?

What Do Twilight, Fifty Shades, and Leviticus Have in Common?

Jul 14 15 • Sonja Corbitt • 0 comments

Most who discuss them agree that the Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey fiction series are the same basic story line with different characters. What seems to differ among those discussing the two, however, is why they are so popular that they developed a cult following. I have a suggestion along that line: What if the wild fascination […]

Poem: “Medusa”

Jul 14 15 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Medusa Medusa slain by Perseus, To gaze would turn a king to stone, Revolting head with eyes of glass The face it showed you had to own It showed the one you really were, Schemes, evasions, lies exposed, And this the horrid power of her: Severed head, the truth of those Still the mirror shows […]

A Conversation With My Gay Friend

Jul 13 15 • Jennifer Fulwiler • 5 comments

The other day we got together with a friend of mine from high school named Andrew*, and his boyfriend, Tom. They moved out of state earlier this year, but a business trip brought him and Tom back through town recently, and we jumped at the chance to go out to dinner with them. This was […]

Just Do it!

Jul 10 15 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

Everybody likes free gifts. Advertisers know that a campaign will have much better results if there are free samples or a free gift with every purchase. A friend of mine lived by this motto: when it’s free, take two. But when we receive a favor, we’re wise enough to know there has got to be […]

One Nation Under SCOTUS: Some Hildebrandian Parallels

Jul 10 15 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 8 comments

In response to the US Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) decree on same sex marriage, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued this statement: …It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage…. Mandating marriage redefinition across the country […]

Poem: “Soon”

Jul 9 15 • Guy McClung • 0 comments

Soon Child in your mother’s womb, She grows with you, and I, the watcher, wait. Speaking without touching, I do not see you, but you are Wondrously full of beauty. Hoping you know my voice, It is not hers, not yet all around you. For now, “I love you” in my words out here, Wanting […]

Was Jesus Really Silent on Same-Sex “Marriage”?

Jul 9 15 • Christopher Eden • 15 comments

The issue of same-sex “marriage” seems to be everywhere these days. Anyone who voices an objection to it is also, more and more frequently, accused of discrimination and labeled a “bigot.” Now, state and federal governments may very well change the age-old definition of marriage to include people of the same gender and marry two […]

Teach a Haitian Orphan to Sew and You Can Clothe Him for Life

Jul 9 15 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

There is an old proverb that says “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Indeed, the best form of charity is to show people how to be self-reliant. It’s not the only form of charity; often immediate measures […]

True Strength: Fully Rely on God

Jul 8 15 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

Like many first-born children, I’m a good rules-follower. Unless I suspect danger to my physical or spiritual well-being, I will do what I’m told by people who love me or the people who somehow make or enforce the rules. So I always have been a pretty good “kneeler” in church. By that, I mean that […]

Cross Bearers Needed

Jul 7 15 • Barb Lishko • 0 comments

In March of this year my father sent out an email to his family marking an important date in his life. It was the anniversary of the day, at thirty years old, he woke up paralyzed. Forty-eight years had passed. I was only eight years old, and the oldest of five children. I cannot remember […]

Book Review: <i>The Catholic Guide to Dating After Divorce</i>

Book Review: The Catholic Guide to Dating After Divorce

Jul 7 15 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Lisa Duffy, an author and speaker for the CatholicMatch institute, overcame a painful divorce and annulment, remarried in the Church, and has spent the past twenty years ministering to those who have been wounded by divorce. In The Catholic Guide to Dating after Divorce (Ave Maria Press, 2015), Duffy provides authentic Church teaching on divorce, […]

A Godly Meditation

Jul 6 15 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

Give me Thy grace, good Lord….

America is Post-Abortive

Jul 6 15 • Guy McClung, J.D., Ph.D. • 3 comments

If you’re an American, you’re post-abortive. It is estimated that, since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 by which seven Justices created the “right to abortion” in America, over 58,000,000 babies have been killed here. “Post-abortive” persons include the mothers of babies killed, fathers, and close family members. Consider: Mothers Due to girls […]

Historic Prayer for the United States

Jul 4 15 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

For the welfare of the Republic.

John Adams and American Independence

Jul 4 15 • Dr. Gary Scott Smith • 0 comments

Adams’s approach to political leadership is refreshing.

SCOTUS

Jul 4 15 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 3 comments

With bluster, ink, and bray. Lawyers five, get their way. Out with God; in with sex drive. Salute Sodom; so they connive. Let them preach right prim of legality, That man’s law must be obeyed. But ‘tis base to bow, when reality Has the highest law betrayed. T’would be wrong to supersede, Against authority properly […]

Miracles Jesus Could Not Do

Jul 4 15 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

Over the last two Sundays, the gospel of Mark has been making it abundantly clear that Jesus is indeed God Almighty, ruler of the world and lord over life and death. But this week we come to a story that leaves us scratching our heads. Jesus goes to his own native place, and receives less […]

The Coming Battle

Jul 2 15 • Leticia Velasquez • 40 comments

If you are like me, you are in mourning. Not merely for a battle lost, but for the thousands of misguided souls who may be lost due to the Supreme Court’s misguided attempts at fairness. The legalization of same sex marriage is not a sudden event, however. Judging by the reactions on both sides, it […]

Reluctantly Seeking Humility

Jul 1 15 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

During the last several months, I have felt a distinct and powerful calling to obtain and embrace a certain virtue. It has led me to daily reciting a certain prayer to the point of writing it on my heart. I have found it one of the most difficult prayer devotions I ever have attempted. The […]

Should Popes Speak About Only “Religious” Matters?

Jul 1 15 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

With the release of the Pope’s encyclical “Laudato si‘” there has been a lot of debate over the content of the Holy Father’s remarks. Unlike some commentators, I do not think that should be shut down. Those who question global warming (something I do believe in) are not like those dissenting from Humanae Vitae. Not […]

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Faith in Action

Jul 1 15 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

“I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing […]

The Trouble With Transhumanism

Jul 1 15 • JC Sanders • 0 comments

“Transhumanism is a desperate belief system that grasps at technological straws. But the raw desperation in that grasping has the potential–like all Utopian movements–to unleash violently destructive forces. Caveat emptor.” (Wesley J. Smith). There are a number of pressing issues in the broad realm of bioethics. Abortion may well be the biggest bone of contention […]

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