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In the wake of the selection of Paul Ryan as the VP nominee, you will be hearing a lot about how Ryan is a bad Catholic because the Bishops criticized the Ryan budget plan. Let me cut to the chase,… Continue Reading →
As I watch the economic mess in Europe unfold like a slow motion video of that diver who back flopped at the Olympics, I sometimes ponder a strange question. Is this the time they were talking about? “Is this the… Continue Reading →
*subhead*Stunned.*subhead* The University of Notre Dame invited President Barack Obama and Catholics were stunned. Georgetown honored HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Catholics everywhere were horrified. Meghan Myers, the Executive Director of the annual fundraiser for Catholic Charities, told LifeSiteNews that… Continue Reading →
*subhead*A time for intolerance.*subhead* “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” — Inigo Montoya Among all the words in a language already so battered and bruised as to almost become unrecognizable,… Continue Reading →
*subhead*Summer.*subhead* I’m sitting by the pool watching my five kids cheat at Marco Polo in the pool with their cousins. They’ve been in the pool for almost two hours when my four year old comes running over to show me… Continue Reading →
*subhead*Nothing new under the sun.*subhead* “Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless… Continue Reading →
*subhead*Horror and sadness.*subhead* I am a father of five children here on Earth. And three more who, with God’s mercy, I hope to meet in Heaven someday. I think about those children sometimes (often). It’s not something I talk about… Continue Reading →
*subhead*Why Obama doesn’t get it.*subhead* It has been remarked that every once in a while the President goes off prompter and tells us what he really thinks. Political opponents, of course, use these moments to make the point that he… Continue Reading →
I found myself engaged in thoughtful conversation with a political fellow traveler the other day on topic fraught with moral and intellectual landmines. The fellow and I have had a running conversation on various different topics. As we agree on… Continue Reading →
Relevance. Sadly, it’s the goal of most people alive today. G.K. Chesterton said, “A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.” If that is true, the world is cluttered with dead things then… Continue Reading →