Culture

“This is called slave labor,” said Pope Francis.
The Holy Father was referring to the $40 a month paid to apparel workers at that eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh that collapsed on top of them, killing more than 400.
“Not…

On the evening of the Boston Marathon bombing I was doing a radio interview about a book I’d written. Before getting to me, the host asked listeners to pray for victims of the atrocity in Boston and for the nation.…

We hear it at the office, around the neighborhood, perhaps among friends and even our relatives.  Entire reality TV series are based on it and tell-all books, talk shows and tabloids make millions from it.  The misuse of social media…

“I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people,” said Edmund Burke of the rebellious Americans.
The same holds true of Islam, the majority faith of 49 nations from Morocco to Indonesia, a religion…

Faith Under Fire: Sebelius Jumps the Gun

by Gail Finke April 23, 2013

So much for the HHS public comment process.
On the final day public comments were being accepted about proposed revisions to a hotly contested HHS rule, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told participants in a livestreamed propaganda presentation — err, healthcare…

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Senseless Act of Violence

by Sheila Liaugminas April 17, 2013

Acts of violence never make sense, no matter how this one turns out to be explained. Every one of these random attacks assaults our sensibilities and rattles whatever semblence of security we still have in our daily lives. We can’t…

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Why Is Europe Committing Demographic Suicide?

by Carolyn Moynihan April 15, 2013

Everybody knows about the economic woes of Europe. In the media you cannot get away from it. What we seldom hear about is a problem that puts debt crises and austerity riots in the shade: the region’s demographic suicide. Europeans,…

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Enemies of the Human Race

by Jennifer Morse April 12, 2013

Radical pro-choice rhetoric attacks the most basic facts of our human existence: that the human body comes in two different but complementary types, male and female. They cannot forgive women who embrace femininity rather than neuter themselves.

They were out…

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The Christian Boxer

by Fr. George W. Rutler April 10, 2013

When our Lord says turn the other cheek, He speaks of a spiritual strategy to humble the self and then perhaps, to win other souls to Him.  Not all the proud are shamed by humility and it seems pretty clear…

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Should We Sell Vatican Art and Give the Money to the Poor?

by David Clayton April 10, 2013

Is this the Franciscan message? On the final Monday of Lent, Mass at Thomas More College was celebrated by one of the monks from St Benedict’s Abbey in Still River. It is always a pleasure to have them here because…

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