Pope’s Spiritual Generosity Misunderstood

November 7th, 2009 by Russell Shaw

For me at least, the most dismaying thing about criticism of Pope Benedict’s plan for easing the way for Anglicans who seek to enter the Roman Catholic Church is the critics’ apparent indifference to the spiritual welfare of these Anglicans.…

 

Abortion is Not Health Care

November 6th, 2009 by Joseph Meaney

Bumper stickers with the message "Abortion is Not Health Care" have started appearing around the country. They could also say infanticide and euthanasia are not health care.

Our first child, Therese Marie, was born on September 29th the Feast of the…

 

Sex, Life, and Death

November 5th, 2009 by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson

Two summers ago, while passing through an airport, I caught a TV news story: double homicide in Ohio. The victims were a young woman and the nine-month-old fetus she was carrying. The murderer was her lover, the unborn baby’s father.

I…

 

Nancy Pelosi and the Claims of Conscience

November 4th, 2009 by George Weigel

On Sept. 28, a bipartisan group of 187 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak and Pennsylvania Republican Joe Pitts, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter.…

 

Sneak Attack on the Mexico City Policy

November 3rd, 2009 by Colin Mason

While all eyes are glued to the health care debate, one senator decided to take a swipe at an old target: the Mexico City Policy.

The Reagan-era Mexico City Policy was designed to get the U.S. out of the international abortion…

 

The Hidden Tithe

November 2nd, 2009 by Ken Larson

Recently I got a phone call from an engineering manager I’ve known for over ten years. He informed me that he’d been laid off last spring, but before I could offer condolences he added that he’d been hired by another…

 

Ignorant of Theophilus

October 31st, 2009 by Eric Scheske

“There’s more to sports than winning.” “It’s not about winning and losing.” “Winning isn’t the most important thing.”

Those types of platitudes surround sports today, especially youth sports. And I have to admit:

I don’t understand them.

If you’re playing a competitive sport,…

 

Public Schools Flunk the Test on Black Males

October 30th, 2009 by Anthony B. Bradley

Do at-risk black males need to be emancipated en masse from America’s public school complex? A new study released about high school dropout and incarceration rates among blacks raises the question. Nearly 23 percent of all American black men ages…

 

St. Jeanne Jugan, We Need You Now

October 29th, 2009 by George Weigel

During the brutally hot summer of 2003, thousands of French vacationers remained on holiday rather than returning home to bury their recently deceased parents, who had died from the extraordinary heat and were being stashed in air-conditioned storage lockers. Those…

 

Pregnancy Resource Centers: Turning Despair to Hope

October 28th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone

One of the most encouraging facts about the pro-life effort in our country is that there are far more pregnancy resource centers (over 2300) than there are abortion mills (about 740).

The centers used to be called “crisis pregnancy centers” and…

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