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• A Catholic Writes About the Phil Robertson Brouhaha

  

  To my readers, she'll be familiar as I've published related posts here and here but clearly, after finding what follows, there's much more to this young lady... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 SOCIETY

• I Learned a Little About What It Feels Like to Hold a Cardboard Sign on a...

  

  My first "customers" were actually a pair of young people who walked up to me with big grins on their faces.  She had exclaimed "Awww!" loudly upon reading my... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Why We Need Mary

  

  Want to read something beautiful and meaningful this Christmas? Then read Scot Alt: SO ADVENT IS ABOUT WAITING, it is about sur­ren­der, and the silence of... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 SOCIETY

• To What Powers Are We Willing to Succumb?

  Fr. Barron takes the story of Virgil's Aeneid and weaves and winds his way to the Nativity story while subtly leading his listeners to a decision point. Check i... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 SOCIETY

• The Beauty of the Human Form...

  

  ... is enhanced when within lies a second: At nine months pregnant, Mary Helen Bowers is dancing a lovely pas de deux with her unborn baby. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Wisdom on the A&E Decision to Cook Duck Dynasty's Lead Goose...

  

  ... from Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal: “Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 SOCIETY

• "You’ve Kowtowed to a Pushy Minority of Vocal Bullies"

  

  Matt Walsh has penned a letter to the folks at the A E network: Dear A E, I read that you are indefinitely suspending Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty after he... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Through the Eyes of Ernest

  

  A friend of mine has written a book that might just make one heckuva stocking stuffer for the animal lover on your need to get a gift for list. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Yet Another Reason I Like Being Catholic...

  

  ... because there's such a thing as Catholic drinking and... it's an art! There is Protestant drinking and there is Catholic drinking, and the difference is mor... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 SOCIETY

• "We Are Encompassed Within a Battle"

  

  The Anchoress tries her hand at fiction: Tonight, my cousin and I will have the first watch. My cousin—as he does most nights—raises his fine young voice in... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 SOCIETY

• "The Season Can Be Melancholy"

  

  Two people close to me have lost loved ones this past week.  One has lost his wife of 24 years.  The other a sister-in-law married to a beloved brother. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 SOCIETY

• More on the 'Pope as Marxist' Comments and the Reference to 'trickle Down'

  

  Yesterday morning I put up a post about the Vatican Insider/La Stampa interview with the Pope where Il Papa denied being a Marxist. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 SOCIETY

• "We Have Unserious Leaders in a Dangerously Serious Time"

  

  Hard hitting yet poignantly true Op-Ed by the New York Post's Michael Goodwin: My bookshelves sag with encyclopedic volumes arguing that America and the West ar... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 SOCIETY

• "The Transformative Power of Humility"

  

  Jason Whitlock is writing about the Redskins and particularly RG III, last year's rookie sensation who was benched this week by Coach Mike Shanahan but in... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 SOCIETY

• “The Marxist Ideology is Wrong.”

  

  That from Pope Francis in a wide ranging interview over at the Vatican Insider: Some of the passages in the “Evangelii Gaudium” attracted the criticism of... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 SOCIETY

• "Obama’s Orwellian Image Control"

  

  That hard hitting headline you'd expect to read at Fox News or the Washington Times or perhaps The Examiner but instead, you'll find it over at The New York... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 SOCIETY

• A Tale of Two Airlines

  Posted by guest blogger, Leslie. Somewhere in the mid-90s, in the midst of government bail-outs for Canada's then-leading airline, a private venture named West... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Maybe Someone Can Explain the Inconsistency on Display by the Air Force

  

  I cannot. First up, from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina: Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Keavy Rake said Tuesday a Nativity display was set up Friday by a grou... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Mandela of the Masses

  

  I've been struggling with what seems to be the cult worship of a man I hope, sincerely, is resting in peace.  Struggling because I don't believe him to be the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Can Economic Conservatives Reconcile the Pope's Criticism of Capitalism?

  

  This from Rachel Lu addresses the issue thoughtfully: Nevertheless, I believe we will find, if we can elevate ourselves above the fray of American politics, tha... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 SOCIETY