War on Women Propaganda

All wars have their propaganda I must say, I like this salvo — a clever video put out by the Susan B. Anthony List: I especially like the closing line: “Tell President Obama to respect a woman’s choice to practice her beliefs…not his.” And you can do that here. In other news, DC Bishop Donald [...]

When Marriage is an “Office” Not a “Right”

Over at First Things, I’m wondering if perhaps we have been thinking about marriage, and about all of our roles as human beings, in the wrong way. What if we thought about life in terms of Office; can we comprehend equality — all quite natural and unforced — then? While all offices are equal, the [...]

Pelosi Tries to Give Talking Points to Catholics – UPDATED

Right on schedule, Nancy Pelosi tries to do what Ted Kennedy and Mario Cuomo have done before her: give talking points to Catholics who wish to hop on to policy that flies in the face of church teaching. You’ll recall it was Kennedy (and later Cuomo) who gave voice to the corkscrew notion that one [...]

Ground-up Babies in Pill Form – UPDATE

Help me out here — I’m having a really hard time believing this is real, via the AP’s Hyung-Jin Kim: SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh: South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday. The capsules [...]

Will’s Poignant Admiration: Why Life and Love Matter

George Will’s son, Jon, is turning 40. With Down syndrome apparent at his birth, Jon’s entrance into the world was greeted with a sterile question from the doctor to the parents: “do you want to take him home with you?” The Wills wondered, “isn’t that what new parents do with infants?” Will has written a [...]

LCWR and Rome: the Opera of Catholicism – UPDATED

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Photosource Recently, while watching some Catholic sniping and squabbling amid these internet comboxes wherein I dwell and make my living, I noted a particularly dramatic note of victimhood being voiced in one channel and fervent, mustachio-twirling glee emanating from another, and I suddenly realized why opera is an art-form created and first-sustained in Catholic cultures. [...]