Before reading His Eminence’s remarks, perhaps a review of the meaning of the word “queer” is in order, since some may find its use inappropriate. When two men or two women “marry” each other, such an act is rightly said … Continue reading
Category: Culture Wars
The Love of Masculinity
Being only slightly older than a Biblical generation, this author hardly has a right to muse on how things were “back in my day.” Which is all the more reason for me to express alarm when I observe that certain … Continue reading
California Legislature Legalizes Three Parent Family
I guess I haven’t been keeping up, but I just read that this law has passed in California and awaiting the signature or veto of the governor. The Witherspoon Institute Public Discourse: Can a child have three parents? If California … Continue reading
Anti-Christian Bigotry Part of Israel’s Educational Indoctrination
The Telegraph: Police inaction and an educational culture that encourages Jewish children to treat Christians with “contempt” has made life increasingly “intolerable” for many, Fr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Custodian of the Holy Land, said. More on this here.
The SPLC and the Shooting at the FRC
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, has assigned some of the blame for the shooting of a security guard at the organization’s Washington, DC offices to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC had labeled the FRC … Continue reading
Austrian Government Fining Visiting Homeschooling Families
Robert F. Cassidy writing for Crisis magazine has the story: For four families in Austria—named the “Gaming 4” after the city where they reside—it is also becoming more and more crucial in their legal fight to homeschool their children. Indeed, … Continue reading
Prez Features Daughters as Abortion Poster Children
It’s not the first time, either. (Lifesitenews.com) On July 24 President Barack Obama used his daughters as props to promote abortion, stating at an Oregon fundraiser (video here): Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood. I … Continue reading
Edification from a Legal Complaint
As reported earlier, the Newland family, who own Hercules Industries, won a partial victory in their case against Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama Administration’s HHS contraception mandate. Reading legal complaints is hardly something one would do for the purposes of … Continue reading
Scotish Archbishop Sees Possible Jail Time for Opposing Homosexuals’ Attack on Marriage
Archbishop-designate Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow could see himself being imprisoned for speaking out in support of the traditional married family. “I could see myself going to jail possibly at some point over the next 15 years, if God spares me, … Continue reading
What Franz Jägerstätter and Pius XI Can Teach Us
Ryan McMaken has penned a brief resume of the deeds of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter. This was an Austrian farmer who refused to fight in the war machine of the Third Reich, and therefore died a martyr. Reading the piece reminds … Continue reading
Lesbian Teen Faked Threats That Sparked College’s ‘Solidarity Rally’
NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, July 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lesbian student at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) won the sympathy of hundreds of students who rallied to her defense against anti-gay remarks before police say video evidence forced her to … Continue reading
American Pornocracy
The United States have never been Catholic — not in any religious, cultural, or political sense. But there was a semblance of natural-law-inspired decency, coming, perhaps, from those bits of Catholicity left in the religiosity of our fellow countrymen. It’s … Continue reading
‘Gay Pride Month’
Here it is almost the end of June and we at Catholicism.org have just about ignored Gay Pride Month — almost. So here’s my tribute, now that the month is nearly over. No, I won’t talk about the Pentagon’s “Pride” … Continue reading
Pro-Family Site Censored
The pro-life, pro-family web site, MassResistance, was pulled down thanks to the machinations of a homosexual activist whose misdeeds were documented by the site. (The site is online again, with another hosting company.) MassResistance is headed by Mr. Brian Camenker, … Continue reading
Some Problems with Homosexual Parenting
(Washington Times) Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married mother-father parents. “The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go,” … Continue reading
