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• "Game, Set, and Match"

  

  Michael Hausam has a devastating comparison of Reaganomics versus Obamanomics over at IJReview: When Ronald Reagan took over from Jimmy Carter in ’81, things... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 SOCIETY

• Fear of Confession

  

  For some, it's a very real thing. Joe Heschmeyer over at Shameless Popery has much needed advice for the fearful: It seems to me that all of us have these sort... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 SOCIETY

• Filled... but Empty; Stuffed, but Starving

  

  "Our culture has filled our heads, but emptied our hearts.  It's stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder.  It has fed our thirst for facts, but not for... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 SOCIETY

• "That Sound You Hear is Pilate, Splashing His Hands in the Bowl."

  

  Those apt words coming from Deacon Greg as he joins others in the Catholic world who are reporting what will soon be taking place at Harvard: The Harvard... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 SOCIETY

• Her Face Tells the Whole Story, a Very Different Story

  

  If you're one tuned in to the Catholic and Christian 'sphere, then by now you're aware of the young woman who filmed her own abortion as a means to convince... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 SOCIETY

• "A Fundamental Confusion"

  

  From his perch over at Strange Notions, Fr. Robert Barron takes up the cause for repugnance, for championing the fight against heretical points of view, for,... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 SOCIETY

• Scientific Proof - If You Hold to Conservative Views, You're a Bat Guano Crazy...

  

  We all know, because we're reminded constantly, that science trumps... science is the end-all to any debate, science has, to put it in a way that should... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 SOCIETY

• This Won't End Well...

  

  ... particularly for the child: The world's only 'married' lesbian threesome are expecting their first child. Doll, Kitten and Brynn, from Massachusetts, were... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 SOCIETY

• "Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah"

  

  I can't tell you how many times I've listened to a politician and heard nothing but blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Apparently, a former pulitzer prize... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2014 SOCIETY

• Explaining Christ's Apparent Passivity During Holy Week

  

  Tod Worner speaks eloquently and beautifully of Christ's 'meekness': In the wake of these events, the question in my mind arose again and again: Was Christ... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2014 SOCIETY

• "Where Can a Reliable Crutch Be Found...?"

  

  How many times have we heard that faith is a crutch for the weak and feeble minded?  If you delve in the philosophical, you hear it often. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 SOCIETY

• What is This Eucharistic Adoration of Which You Speak?

  

  A few days ago someone confided that they were stressing about something, a something that would cause anyone stress.  Heck, I'm stressing over this same... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 SOCIETY

• The Third Way Should Be the One Way the Church Approaches This Divisive Issue

  

  This quality production by the folks at Blackstone Films should be watched by every serious believer.  To call this outstanding is to fall short of how good it... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 SOCIETY

• Sign of the Times

  

  Darkness wins... for now: The NARAL nutjobs jumped ugly all over Google, who, let's face it, didn't need much convincing, to remove ads for a crisis pregnancy... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 SOCIETY

• What Do Matt Walsh and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Have in Common?

  

  They both believe there's much being ignored about LA Clipper's owner Donald Sterling and they've both written missives about it worth reading. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "They Would Be Exposing Their Astronauts on the ISS"

  

  Those words and more from Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian deputy prime minister the EU claims is "responsible for overseeing the integration of the annexed... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Sarah Palin is Proposing "a Mixture of Pagan Ethics and Civil Deistic Religion"

  

  So says Joe Carter as he responds to her Baptism comments over the weekend: For anyone to confess Christ as their savior and to compare one of the means of God'... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Yes, Sarah Palin Should Walk Her Baptism Statement Back

  

  My support for Sarah Palin is out in the open and goes back to August of 2008 when John McCain named her to his ticket.  When she first came on the political... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 SOCIETY

• What Are We to Make of All This Talk of Sainthood?

  

  On Facebook yesterday, someone I'm friends with put up a status declaring her discomfort with Popes becoming saints and the fact that Catholics would pray to... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "Stand Up, Don't Be Afraid."

  

  One of many interesting stories coming out of yesterday's canonizations include this one concerning Florabeth Mora of Costa Rica: The relic of new saint John... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 SOCIETY