Culture

Five Ways to Stop Your Six Year Old From Becoming a Sex Object

by Marge Fenelon August 31, 2012

A new study just out from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, shows that girls as young as six are being conditioned by secular media to view themselves as sex objects. Yes, you read that right sex objects. At a time…

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Words Matter. Truth Counts.

by Ken Connor August 29, 2012

Words matter.  Truth counts.  Or do they in the postmodern age in which we live?
Recently The Washington Post reported a story about Obama advisor, Zeke Emmanuel, brother of Rahm Emmanuel.  Dr. Emmanuel, a bioethicist and devoted “foodie”, is an…

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Hell Is Other People. Or Is It?

by Lauren Enk August 21, 2012

Hell is other people.
At least, that’s what French existentialist and Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre said. The line comes from his 1944 play Huis Clos (“No Exit,”) in which three damned souls discover that their eternal punishment is not fire-and-brimstone tortures…

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ACLU Compares Catholics to Racists

by Matthew Archbold August 13, 2012

The ACLU has filed a brief in support of the HHS mandate, comparing Catholics to racists.
The ACLU and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri recently filed an amicus brief supporting the mandate which requires employers to provide insurance coverage for…

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Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View

by Robert Oscar Lopez August 13, 2012

Between 1973 and 1990, when my beloved mother passed away, she and her female romantic partner raised me. They had separate houses but spent nearly all their weekends together, with me, in a trailer tucked discreetly in an RV park…

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Is Romney Right About Culture?

by Robert R. Reilly August 8, 2012

Governor Mitt Romney seems to have stirred up some controversy by the remarks he made to a gathering in Jerusalem the other week. Contrasting Israel and the Palestinian territories, he said, “You notice a stark difference in economic vitality. And…

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Post-Comfortable Christianity and the Election of 2012

by Fr. George W. Rutler August 6, 2012

Shortly before he died in Oxford in 1988, the Jesuit retreat master and raconteur, Bernard Bassett, in good spirits after a double leg amputation, told me that the great lights of his theological formation had been Ignatius Loyola and John…

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Building a Culture of Religious Freedom

by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. August 3, 2012

A friend of mine, a political scientist, recently posed two very good questions. They go right to the heart of our discussion today. He wondered, first, if the religious freedom debate had “crossed a Rubicon” in our country’s political life.…

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City Removes Franciscan University Chapel From Logo

by Matthew Archbold August 2, 2012

The effort to erase any public sign of Christianity in American took yet another step forward recently with the announcement that the city of Steubenville, Ohio is removing the image of the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s chapel from the official…

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To Women: A Call to Arms

by Peggy Haslar July 30, 2012

It’s understandable that advocates of the Obama administration’s HHS mandate framed opposition to coerced coverage of abortifacients as a “war” on women:  mobilizing a coveted group of voters is good politics. Mandate fans even brought their their red “Stop the…

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