Category Archives: Politics and Society
Politics and Society
Christendom no longer exists, but, nevertheless, Catholics must be active members of their respective societies and agents of justice in a world bereft of moral values. We must know history, not merely current events. European history, after the conversion of the nations, was the history of the Church. This history is certainly important to know. But, as Americans, we cannot afford to be ignorant of our own history. The virtue of patriotism, which is actually a natural manifestation of the supernatural gift of piety, demands that we have an appreciation for whatever is good in the history of this land of ours, not just after 1776, but since events were recorded here. The virtue of patriotism also obligates us to recognize the sins of our nation. “My country right or wrong,” is an evil axiom that changes patriotism into self-adulating nationalism.
As Catholics, we ought to be justly concerned about world events, especially about the persecution of the Church that is going on in other countries. Advantage ought to be taken of the many good Catholic outlets of information that are available today. Our website is a good source of the news that counts. From our religious perspective, we are able to bypass the useless information and disinformation that fills the major media, and provide the news that affects our lives as members of the Church militant. If it doesn’t help anyone sub specie aeternitatis (under the aspect of eternity) we don’t post it.
Herald’s Margery Eagan Not Confused with Facts
May 17, 2013 Letters, Boston Herald P. O. Box 55843 Boston, MA 02205-5843 To the Editor: With her usual indifference to the facts, Margery Eagan parrots the party line of pro-abortion activists and claims that Savita Halapanavar, the Indian immigrant to Ireland, died in an Irish hospital because she was denied an abortion, (O’Malley goes one step too far, 5/14/2013). The coroner’s inquest found the … More →
Kermit Gosnell is Not Alone
(Life Dynamics Inc.) Life Dynamics Inc. a national pro-life organization located in Denton, Texas, has released an interview with three former abortion clinic workers which prove the Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, recently convicted of murder, is not an anomaly. The interview was conducted on May 3, 2013 with clinic employees located in a different state. Though their descriptions are disturbing, the video images are … More →
Obama’s Scandals
Concerning the recent avalanche of scandal for the Obama White House, Politico ran a story with this unbelievable sentence: “Top GOP sources acknowledge that it’s highly unlikely the White House was directly involved in the IRS mess, but the probe is sure to add to the Republican-spun narrative of Democratic, Big Government overreach.” Can anyone really deny that there is Big Government overreach here? The … More →
Boston College Trounced for Honoring Pro-Abort, Anti-Catholic Irish PM
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today condemned Jesuit administered Boston College for selecting Republic of Ireland Taoiseach Enda Kenny as its 2013 Commencement Speaker. The university will also confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Kenny during commencement exercises on May 20th. On April 30th, Kenny’s coalition government introduced legislation with the Orwellian title “The Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013,” which … More →
Anti-Family Statists Kidnap Baby
Reading stories like this, one waits for Rod Serling or M. Night Shyamalan to make a cameo. Only they don’t, because it’s real… (The Blaze) Following a Monday court ruling, Anna and Alex Nikolayev are one step closer to regaining full custody of their infant son. As previously reported by TheBlaze, the Russian couple, currently living in Sacramento, Calif., had their baby “snatched” up by police … More →
Another Argentine Porteño Occupies a Throne
Meet Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. With the abdication of Queen Beatrix, her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, becomes King of the Netherlands, and his Argentine-born Princess, Máxima, becomes Queen. According to Wikipedia, Máxima “remained a Roman Catholic after her marriage” to the current head of the Protestant House of Orange-Nassau, the same house that gave us William III of England (of William and Mary fame), whose … More →
Archbishop Piero Marini: ‘Civil Right’ to Unnatural Unions
Call me a troglodyte, but it was my impression from Catholic moral teaching that nobody has a “right” to do what is contrary to the law of God, whether we consider that portion of the law that is supernaturally revealed, or that which was written on the heart. (NCR/John Allen) Another veteran Vatican figure has signaled openness to civil recognition of same-sex unions in the … More →
‘And You Cannot Build Upon a Lie’
In 1920, ten years after Hilaire Belloc had stepped down from his four maturing years of publicly elected service in the House of Commons, he published a lucid book-length essay, entitled, The House of Commons and Monarchy. It is a forthright and equitably proportioned work with a clearly stated thesis; and the development of Belloc’s presented evidence and argumentation will help us still better understand … More →
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On Bombs, Babies, and Boy Scouts
The nation is still reeling from the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing, and one of the two suspects is still at large as I write. Three people were killed, thirteen had limbs amputated, and 170 others are still hospitalized. There is no trivializing the senseless violence — the evil — that has been perpetrated. In Philadelphia, Kermit Gosnell’s trial is in week six. Gosnell … More →
Potty-Mouthed, Pro-Death Prof. Policed
File this one under “I” for “inmates running the asylum.” (LifeNews.com) A college professor has been arrested for a profane rant at pro-life students at the University of Buffalo. Professor Laura Curry screamed at students, yelling at them: “Where does it say I can’t use the [not nice] word in public. I can swear because that’s part of my vocabulary. That’s part of my First … More →
Mystery, Obama’s Brain Research Project (and the Pope)
One supposes it may be seen as in questionable taste to cite one’s own work, but that is what I am about to do here. I hope the reader will indulge me. I’m not simply plugging a book. There is a point. Young Tony and the Priest; Coming to Belief in an Age of Unbelief, a novella by me published by Loreto Publications, is a … More →
Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Scaring Donors Since 1971
Being the SPLC’s poster child for evil Catholic “hate groups” is looking more and more like a badge of honor of which I am entirely unworthy. The Weekly Standard has a piece on the SPLC and its fundraiser-in-chief. Disgust at this organization has gone mainstream. Thanks to the generosity of four decades’ worth of donors, many of whom—as SPLC president Richard Cohen himself noted in … More →
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Sophists Running the Academy
You’ve no doubt heard the expressing “lunatics running the asylum.” Well, The Telegraph reports that a new article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”. The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born. … More →
Why Human Rights Are Wrong
Modernity offers many substitutes for God and for the Christian religion that was the sole foundation of Western civilization and culture for most of two millennia. Some of these substitutes aren’t what they used to be. For instance, racism, according to which men worship their genes and which was very big in the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth, is no longer espoused … More →
