Want a bone to gnaw on? Try this one: Imagine for a minute that a public conservative or conservative Republican politician had commented, oh, say about 2 years ago to the effect that then candidate Barack Obama was gaining traction…

A Washington D.C. judge has ruled that a ballot initiative against the recently approved same-sex “marriage” law would violate the District’s Human Rights Act, which forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Stand 4 Marriage DC, a coalition of the…

Okay, just for the record here is the profile. I am white, a US citizen, in my mid 50’s, a grandmother, and a practicing Catholic. Rosaries, prayer books, medals, scapulars and other such paraphernalia are from time to time located…

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek — Romans 1:16 RSV.

Something truly amazing happened yesterday morning on…

I bet I know what your kids want for Christmas next year.

Oh, boy — if this isn’t the last thing you want to think about right now.

You want to get this Christmas paid for or at least get the tree…

Where did the year go?!

So many people have shared that sentiment with me in recent days.  But this year I knew.  I knew once the kids started school that the year was done – just turn around and blink and it…

As Mark Shea has so pithily put it: "Show me a culture that despises virginity and I’ll show you a culture that despises children because all children are virgins."  In our culture, the devil’s propaganda machine works overtime to accomplish…

This is a charitable time of year. In honor of God’s great gift of Christ — the Incarnation, the dawn of our redemption — Christians give. Coins clink among dollars in the Salvation Army kettles, Angel Tree gifts arrive at…

It’s time once again for the Advent procession. Time to get out the figurines of the Nativity set and let the children move them about the house. From room to room and shelf to shelf the Wise Men process on…

The movie 2012 is out. I hear the special effects are a blast. There are some pretty spectacular effects going on right now near between Java and Sumatra, where Krakatoa is still rising from the sea.

Krakatoa erupted in 1883, generating a…