Author Lee Smith’s remarks below have the ring of truth, even if Mr. Smith thinks that a belligerent U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast is a good idea, which it isn’t. The obvious answer is to keep our people out … Continue reading
Category: Politics and Society
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.
Can Chivalry Return?
Chivalry! Knighthood! These are words that stir up an enormous number of images in the mind: St. George and the Dragon; the Quest for the Holy Grail; King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; Charlemagne and his Twelve … Continue reading
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
Roberto de Mattei on “Religious Liberty” and Christian Freedom
Among the slogans of “politically correct” language there is the term “religious liberty”, which is used incorrectly at times by Catholics as a synonym for freedom for the Church or freedom for Christians. In reality the terms and concepts are … 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
Paying for Past Sins
Most readers of these lines will not have been around when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs first on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then on Nagasaki three days later. I was myself only a kid, … 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