It has been over six months since the Newtown, Connecticut massacre took place. It was on December 14, 2012 that Adam Lanza, a twenty year old disgruntled and deeply troubled young man, shot and murdered 26 people, including 20 children … Continue reading
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the eight candidates for Mayor of Boston who indicated they would engage in unlawful discrimination against religious believers who defend traditional morality. In a poll released yesterday by The Boston Globe, one … Continue reading
The Boy Scouts were a huge part of my personal formation. At the age of nine I joined the Cubs, becoming successively a Bear and Webelo, and doing the usual Cub activities. This culminated with my entrance into the Boy … Continue reading
Morality in Media protested the sale of the smutty magazines Playboy and Penthouse on US Military Bases. In response, Uncle Sam declared that said smut is not considered sexually explicit under federal law. This remarkable aptitude for redefining reality may … Continue reading
It was on April 1, 2013 (April Fool’s Day) that the following headline appeared on MSN News: Lego scraps Star Wars toy Jabba after ‘anti-Muslim’ complaints. A group called the Turkish Cultural Association of Austria complained that Jabba, a Star … Continue reading
The common view of matters demographic in Europe is that Europeans will become vastly outnumbered by Moslem immigrants on their own continent. That view is being challenged by an American scholar, Philip Jenkins, whose argument is resonating by some in … Continue reading
We are led to believe that homosexuals are just decent people, like everyone else, except insofar as they “love differently.” It is therefore unreasonable to suspect them of anything heinous or unnatural. We are further led to believe that pro-aborts … Continue reading
(NOTE: At a public dinner in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1816, Stephen Decatur, naval hero of the War of 1812, famously declared: “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country right or wrong.” … Continue reading
Thirty-two States currently support the death penalty as a punishment for heinous crimes. Although this is cited as a deterrent to such behavior, even the threat of death would not prevent many morally corrupted sociopaths from engaging in criminal activity. … Continue reading
The first president I remember is Jimmy Carter. Hearing his name conjures up all the pejoratives my father used to hurl at the television when the President appeared on the nightly news. You might say that Carter was not one … Continue reading
Two recent stories — the President’s embarrassing denunciation of religious education in Ireland and, more locally, a New Hampshire Superior Court Judge’s ruling against educational choice in the Granite State — reminded me of the fact that there has long … Continue reading
Veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has gotten a bum rap. For many people, Catholics and otherwise, the seemingly effeminate images of Our Lord pointing to His — literally — bleeding heart were dismissed as purely private devotional images … Continue reading
In a slap to the face of Catholic and other religious schools, Superior Court Judge John M. Lewis ruled that a privately funded tuition tax-credit program violated the New Hampshire State Constitution. His decision was hailed by Democratic Governor Maggie … Continue reading
Is there one word that conveys the concepts of ignorant, hubristic, arrogant, meddling, conceited, condescendingly insulting of people’s intelligence, and offensive to your hosts? If there is, B.H. Obama deserves it. He does not content himself with attacking the Catholic … Continue reading
(The LCR Blog) With scandals raging at home, Obama (conveniently) discovers chemical weapons use in Syria. [Recall that Bill Clinton bombed Kosovo during the “Lewinsky affair.” Now Obama has a convenient distraction from IRS-Benghazi-DOJ-AP-NSA-etc.-etc.-gate, all the while ignoring the Syrian … Continue reading
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