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Celebrate Divine Mercy Weekend With Johnette Benkovic

Johnette Benkovic is coming to Greenville, SC to Our Lady of the Rosary parish for a Divine Mercy Weekend. Join me and Johnette and EWTN Radio  host Steve Wood on Saturday April 11 and Sunday afternoon April 12 for a conference on Divine Mercy and the Family. Go here to our new website for all [Read More...]

Why Is Something Sinful?

It’s Lent. It’s a penitential season. So off we go to confession to confess our sins. But why is something sinful anyway? Most of us believe things are sinful because someone has told us they are sinful. “Don’t sleep with a girl before marriage.” “Why  not?” “Because it’s sinful.” “Why is it sinful?” “Because the [Read More...]

Who Am I to Judge?

“Who Am I to Judge?” will probably go down in history as Pope Francis’ most quotable quote. The context of his quip is well known. On the plane back from World Youth Day in Brazil he was asked about the so called “gay lobby” in the church. He replied, “When I meet a gay person, [Read More...]

Martin O’Malley: When Catholic Politicians Get Creepy

Martin O’Malley is the latest Catholic politician to come out as a duplicitous “Catholic.” Deacon Kandra posts an excerpt here from an interview in which O’Malley displays some amazingly twisted thinking to support homosexual marriage–even though he’s a Catholic. As far as I can make out his belief goes like this: “the child of a homosexual [Read More...]

Ten Examples of the Devil’s Double Think

You can always tell when the Father of Lies is about his business because he will get people completely contradicting themselves in their advocacy of various causes. This is what I call the Devil’s Doublethink. Here are some examples: 1. Feminists who attack men for being sexist - If you launch an attack on everyone of one [Read More...]

Pope Francis’ Enthusiasm for Kasper is Waning

Sandro Magister reports here on developments in the Vatican which will influence the upcoming Synod on the Family. It seems to Magister that Pope Francis is moving away from what seemed his enthusiasm for Cardinal Kasper’s ideas to open communion to the divorced and re-married. This is because of the Pope’s continued support for Cardinal [Read More...]

On the Importance of Shoes

My article this week for Imaginative Conservative is somewhat whimsical meditation on the importance of shoes. I was serving as a Housemaster in an English boarding school when I finally learned the full importance of shoes. Every night after supper the boys would have an hour to complete their homework and get ready for bed. [Read More...]

What’s Wrong With Test Tube Babies?

In the combox over at CRUX a discussion was going on about in virtro fertilization, and some readers questioned the church’s opposition to it. A simply stated explanation  of the church’s opposition to IVF technologies is found here on the USCCB website, and the official teaching from the Vatican–a document called Donum Vitae (The Gift of Life) can be [Read More...]

Lesbian Mom? No Dad? Tough Luck

The Federalist carries this article by a young woman brought up by her lesbian mom and partner. It brings home the point that same sex marriage is not just about marriage, but same sex parenting. The author grieves not having had a father. She writes well on the issue, realizing how complicated it is, but [Read More...]

American Baby Killer on the $20 Bill?

Apparently the New York Times is campaigning to have a portrait of eugenicist  Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill. What? So that would be Margaret Sanger the Ku Klux Klan member? Margaret Sanger who said the best thing families can do is kill their baby? John Zmirak gives five reasons why not here. The New York [Read More...]