Our friend, C.J. Doyle, has written the first excellent installment of a two-part article on the bombing of Nagasaki, An Act of State Terrorism. It was intended that the piece would be published yesterday, the seventy-eighth anniversary of the event, … Continue reading
Category: Morals
An Act of State Terrorism
August 9, 2023 is the 78th anniversary of the destruction of the oldest, largest and most historic Catholic community in Japan, that of the Urakami District of Nagasaki, whose Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception lay 1,650 feet beneath the airburst … Continue reading
Bless God at All Times!
The following is the speech I gave at IHM School’s graduation yesterday. Readers should know that our school in rural southern New Hampshire is very small. We had one graduates this year (we had three last year!). HERE we are once more in the month of … Continue reading
Catholic Mother of Five Arrested at Her Home for Words She Used Against Transgenderism
CNA, Madeleine Teghan: A British Catholic mother of five, who was arrested at her family home while making roasted chicken, said that she believes Catholics are a “soft target” for the police. It was approaching dinnertime on Monday, Oct. 3, … Continue reading
Poll Says Most German ‘Catholics’ Oppose Pope Speaking Against Abortion
National Catholic Register, AC Wimmer CNA: According to a new representative poll, 58% of German Catholics do not like “the fact that the Pope and the Church speak out against abortions.” The Catholic weekly newspaper Die Tagespost commissioned the survey from the … Continue reading
Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh Tells Team and Staff He Will Care for Baby, Do Not Have Abortion
CNA, Francesca Pollio Fenton: After receiving criticism on social media and from college football fans for remarks made at a pro-life event, Michigan Wolverines’ football coach Jim Harbaugh elaborated on his stance. In an interview with ESPN, Harbaugh shared how he … Continue reading
Envy, the Second Deadliest Sin
Catholic Stand, Hunter Leonard: The Second Deadliest Sin In my experience, the vice of envy is often explained merely as a worse version of jealousy. It might seem that envy is just another way to explain the sin of wanting … Continue reading
We Are Measured by the Quality of Our Loves
The following is the speech I gave at IHM School’s graduation yesterday. Readers should know that our school in rural southern New Hampshire is very small. We had three graduates this year. My effort was to be lighthearted as well as informative and … Continue reading
Reviewing Good Pro-Life Arguments with the Help of Hadley Arkes
In “On Overruling Roe,” Dr. Hadley Arkes, Professor of Jurisprudence emeritus at Amherst College, reminds us of the real issues at stake in the abortion debate, and gives us a summary of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the … Continue reading
The Two Kingdoms That Don’t Love Each Other
Going over my students’ Latin homework, I came across a sentence of Monsignor Baumeister’s that struck me with particular force. What my students were called upon to translate perfectly summarizes Saint Augustine’s doctrine in his magnificent City of God. Inter … Continue reading