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Pregnancy, C-Sections, and Postpartum Depression

…Are Preexisting Conditions in New American Healthcare Act That’s because the unborn are regarded only as human shields to protect the predators in the Right Wing Culture of Death, which is really about the worship of Mammon, not the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death.

Lovely Story about an Undercover Cop Who Discovered…

…how strangers in Vancouver treated him, thinking he was disabled.

Let’s Make the Desperately Sick Beg for Their Lives!

Tim Powers on Catholicism and the Rules Fantasy

This is from the recent “Trying to Say God” conference at Notre Dame. I wish I could have gone, but we can find recordings of a lot of the talks at Soundcloud, I’m told.

I Agree with This Letter to the Dubia Cardinals

Bravo for this! I will end by humbly asking you to reconsider your position on this issue. You may or may not be aware that there is a growing section of traditionalists and even some conservative Catholics who see you as the standard bearers for the rejection of this papacy. I know from experience that [Read More...]

We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

I wrote this 16 years ago. I believed at the time that the assault on human equality would come from a post-modern Left that would simply continue down the slippery slope from denying equality to the unborn to denying it to the least of these. What I did not anticipate in the slightest was that [Read More...]

July 4 is the Birthday of America, the Country Hosting the 36th Annual Chesterton Conference, which

is coming to Colorado Springs, Colorado July 27 – 29 on the campus of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Speakers include (among others) Joseph Pearce, Fr. James Schall, David Mills (former editor of First Things), Christopher Check (President of Catholic Answers), author Regina Doman, Dale Ahlquist and Yr. Obdt. Svt. Show your patriotism for America, [Read More...]

Prudence Amidst the Fireworks

A piece I wrote on James Madison’s genius for Northwest Catholic.

Avik Roy is Right

…and is articulating a basic gospel principle in this very heartening and encouraging article: To save your life, you must lose it. So heartening to see somebody on the Right speaking the truth. A prayer to accompany this article: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your merciful love; according to your abundant mercy [Read More...]

Come to the 36th Annual Chesterton Conference, which

is coming to Colorado Springs, Colorado July 27 – 29 on the campus of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Speakers include (among others) Joseph Pearce, Fr. James Schall, David Mills (former editor of First Things), Christopher Check (President of Catholic Answers), author Regina Doman, Dale Ahlquist and Yr. Obdt. Svt. If you don’t come, you [Read More...]