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• "The Scandals and the Negative Media Coverage Actually Increased My Faith in...

  

  I remember sitting down for lunch one day a few years ago with a co-worker and the subject of Church came up.  At that time I was beginning to think about... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "On President Obama’s Watch, the IRS Was Weaponized"

  

  Matt Purple has a humdinger up over at The American Spectator: When an American compound in Benghazi was attacked last year, the Obama administration targeted... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• True Story

  Would Mark Shea lie? Hans Grapje was raised in a Catholic school in The Hague and, as a young man, aspired to become a priest, but was drafted into the Army... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Top Ten Catholic Tenets

  

  Great stuff coming our way from a blog I just added to the blogroll, Invisible Woman: When I first began immersing myself in the study of Catholicism,  I read... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "An Element of Madness" That is "healthy" and "spiritual"

  

  Pope Francis is suggesting that I might just be blessing the Lord: The Pope told Christians it is better to be “annoying” and “a nuisance” than lukewarm in... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 SOCIETY

• What is Truth?

  

  Fr. Powell is bemoaning the disappearance of truth:  If Truth were a commodity—like cotton or oil—its stock value would be very low these days. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "Idolatry Has Played a Big Part in Bringing Us to This Place"

  

  Things seem to be spiralling out of control.  Societal decay, corruption, coarseness, immorality in general seems to be on the rise while integrity, character,... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• “I Haven’t Written for Them Since the Audit, Because I Was So Scared”

  

  A Catholic finds the courage to speak of her experience with the IRS in the wake of the news now being revealed as to the IRS' intimidation of those... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "Are We Saying Repentance is About Our Timing?"

  

  A former Director of a Planned Parenthood clinic weighs in the Kermit Gosnell story with Godly wisdom: I am vehemently against the death penalty. Now stay with... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Krauthammer to Republicans on Benghazi: "Stop Calling It a Huge Scandal. Stop...

  

  Very. Sound. Advice. Via RCP: Why were the requests for security denied including the desperate ones of the Ambassador who ultimately was killed? Second, what... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "It is Among the Most Gruesome and Horrifying Actions Perpetrated on Innocent...

  

  It... is abortion and the Kermit Gosnell trial and subsequent conviction has opened the door to some much needed conversations: I recently read with great... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIETY

• What's Wrong with This Video?

  by guest blogger, BroKen Gerard Vanderleun at American Digest put up a video called "This is Water". It is an edited version of a commencment address given by... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "We Seek Him to Find Him and Because We Find Him, We Seek Him."

  

  I found a new blog that's been added to the blogroll.  It's called Strange Notions and here's an excerpt from their about page: StrangeNotions.com is the centra... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIETY

• NARAL Ignores Gosnell Baby Murder Convictions

  

  The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League released a statement yesterday in the wake of the Gosnell convictions: “Justice was served to... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "The Choice to Highlight Their Sacrifice May Put a Strain on the Already...

  

  I learned only yesterday of the long ago events leading to the canonization of more than 800 Catholics in Saint Peter’s Square on Sunday but what is familiar... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 SOCIETY

• “They Said My Name, and They Said, ‘We’re Here to Take You Home.'”

  

  Jessica Buchanan tells of her harrowing abduction at the hands of Somali pirates and her rescue by Seal Team 6 after more than 3 months of captivity: She was... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Widening Controversy

  

  A week ago Sunday, as the commencement speaker for Ohio University's 2013 graduating class, President Obama said that graduates, and by extension all... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 SOCIETY

• The Next Social Injustice Campaign Coming Our Way Via the Enlightened

  

  It's telling in my view that she who is proposing this idea is a reproductive rights feminist: The age of consent for sex should be lowered to 13 years-old to... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "By Suggesting He is Uncomfortable with the Moral Dimensions of Capitalism,...

  

  Via Frank Weathers, I learn that the Pope has ruffled the feathers at Forbes with the following tweet: My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Left To Die

  Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know what this is all about. Remember this video, remember these lies. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 SOCIETY