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• “We Enroll Them Among the Saints...”

  

  A historic day today for faithful Catholics: In a packed St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis officially declared former... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "You Are Not Who They Say You Are..."

  

  "... let me remind you of who you are." Chris Stefanick brings us details on the life of John Paul II you likely didn't know... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "We're Going Through a Real Golden Age of the Papacy"

  

  Fr. Robert Barron, from La Bella Roma, begins his video series covering the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II: You can sign up for Fr.... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 SOCIETY

• 'We Thus Have Become Infinitely “tolerant” of Anything but Truth Itself.'

  

  Rev. James V. Schall is issuing a warning every serious believer should be reading.   The lukewarm, eh, move on, nothing to see here: The number of subjects we... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 SOCIETY

• “Common Sense and Logical Consistency” That Isn't Going to Sit Well...

  

  ... with radical pro-aborts: Children in the womb should have the same legal standing as other children, the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled Friday. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Discernment and Prudence, Hard but Necessary

  

  On Sunday, during an Easter gathering at Mom's, my brother asked me what I thought about the whole Bureau of Land Management versus the Bundys kerfluffle.  My... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Golf is an Important Thing for This President

  

  So very important: After Zeituni Onyango, the woman President Obama once called Auntie, died in a South Boston nursing home this month, her closest relatives... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "Well, That’s Just a Practical Cost-saving Measure, Now Isn’t It?"

  

  Matt Walsh is reacting to news hitting the wires today that Canada is shipping medical waste, to include the corpses of aborted babies, to Oregon to be... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "Everyone's Offended. All the Time."

  

  Matt Archbold is talking about thin skins: Who'd have thought that that a little thing like the internet could transform the greatest country in the history of... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 SOCIETY

• “We Don’t Need Bigoted People Even Keeping Their Opinions to Themselves”

  

  Those words and more were spoken by New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm in response to Chik-fil-A's plans to expand operations in the city: “We don’t need... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "Moral Judgment as Exclamation"

  

  When religious faith is marginalized, particularly Christian faith and, in my view, especially Catholic faith, something has to fill the void... and something... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Will We Hear an Easter Message Like This One from a President Ever Again?

  

  If you miss Ronald Reagan, you'll miss him all the more after you listen to this Easter message he delivered to the nation in 1983. H/T to Kathy Shiffer who... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Foolishness and the Blindness of the Dark Lord"

  

  It's Holy Saturday, the day the Church lays silent and still, waiting for the dawn of Resurrection.   From the Catechism: Christ went down into the depths of... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "This is the Earth That Held the Cross."

  

  Deacon Greg's homily for Good Friday is an excellent read: About 15 years ago, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 SOCIETY

• You Can Take the Thug out of Chicago...

  

  ... but you can't take the Chicago out of the thug... or something: Sending scores of armed agents along with helicopters and dogs to confront an elderly... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "We Have Made Sex a Street Sport."

  

  We should all be as courageous, as bold, as Marisa Pereira: I was taking the Atlanta to Bentonville, AR flight several weeks ago intending to do business with... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Are You Not Happy?

  

  Father Robert Barron, in his Lenten Reflection for the day, explains why that might be: They are some of the harshest, most shocking words that Jesus speaks in... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 SOCIETY

• The Sickness... is Deep in This One

  

  This guy's either a loon... or possessed: Boston Police reportedly arrested a man Monday evening after he allegedly caused a disturbance by shouting and droppin... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 SOCIETY

• “It is Coincidental and Unfortunate Timing”

  

  The Obama administration is so unlucky: The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "A Dramatic, and Often Untold, Religion Story of the Early 21st Century — the...

  

  Fruit from John Allen's recent move to the Boston Globe, coverage of that which has largely been ignored: Dutch Jesuit priest Frans van der Lugt, killed in Syri... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 SOCIETY