Women and Order, Justice and Peace

February 9th, 2010 by Genevieve S. Kineke

Pope Benedict has appointed a lay woman, Flaminia Giovanelli, as a superior in one of its dicasteries, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Each dicastery is headed by a prefect (usually a cardinal or archbishop), assisted by a secretary…

 

Sundance and the Dance of Death

February 8th, 2010 by Fr. Thomas Euteneuer

Honestly, the last place I ever imagined seeing my face was on the big screen at the Sundance Film Festival. I actually appeared in a documentary film last week called "12th and Delaware" which attempted to show the struggle between…

 

God and Man at the National Prayer Breakfast

February 6th, 2010 by Dr. Paul Kengor

President Obama spoke Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast. I’ve long studied the sitting president’s remarks at these breakfasts, particularly President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and President Ronald Reagan. I note this to hopefully lend a little credibility…

 

Will America Help the Persecuted Copts of Egypt?

February 5th, 2010 by Ray Nothstine

The violent persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt is becoming harder for the free world to ignore. This is true thanks to thousands of Copts who recently expressed their decades of frustration and anguish in street protests across the globe.…

 

Papal Environmentalism: Pro-life and Pro-marriage

February 4th, 2010 by George Weigel

In his Jan. 11 address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI continued to carve out an interesting Catholic position on ecology. The Pope insists that care for creation is a moral obligation that falls…

 

Against the Tide: Covering Up the Size of the March for Life

February 3rd, 2010 by Leticia Velasquez

On Friday, January 22, 2010, a crowd estimated at half a million marched up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court. It was the annual March for Life and it commemorates the 1973 Blackmun Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade which legalized…

 

Why the Our Father is a Pro-Life Prayer, Part 3

February 2nd, 2010 by Fr. Frank Pavone

Each line of the Lord’s Prayer gives us insight as to why we are pro-life.

“Lead us not into temptation.” Every temptation is a lie, which makes something evil look good. Among the most masterful temptations of the evil one is…

 

Who Does God Use?

February 1st, 2010 by Shane Kapler

“It takes no great military expert to predict the results of a war in which large numbers of the solders do not fight, do not even know there is a war on. The officers are essential, and obedience to them is…

 

Freedom of Political Speech Restored: Citizens United v. Obama

January 30th, 2010 by Dr. John A. Sparks

Suppose you were arrested on criminal charges because you were the head of an organization that had produced a film critical of the wife of a former political leader, who was now running for office herself. What country would have…

 

The National Mood

January 29th, 2010 by Russell Shaw

As Americans wait, hopefully or apprehensively as the case may be, to see what happens next to the Obama legislative agenda, a question unavoidably suggests itself: how on earth did we get into this mess? A mess that evidently transcends…

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