2015-02-12T16:57:16-05:00

Last updated on: February 12, 2015 at 4:57 pm   By

“Our rights do not come from God, your honor,” said CNN’s Chris Cuomo in a televised interview with Judge Roy Moore, “and you know that. They come from man…” That’s a pretty serious slip of the tongue for the son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and the brother of current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Chris Cuomo the journalist is a self-identified Catholic who began his education at Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica, Queens, and completed his Juris Doctoris at Jesuit-run... Read more

2015-02-09T21:19:22-05:00

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 9:19 pm   By

The New York Catholic Conference, with a generous grant from Our Sunday Visitor, has announced an important website which explains end-of-life issues from a Catholic perspective. CatholicEndOfLife.org can help individuals facing the end of life and their families to navigate the end-of-life questions and challenges, and bring peace to a stressful situation. The site provides links to trustworthy resources, guidance, and support from Catholic sources all across the country. The site isn’t just for New Yorkers.  I was surprised that I could click on the... Read more

2015-02-09T18:09:25-05:00

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 6:09 pm   By

The Southern Poverty Law Center, the leftist nonprofit legal advocacy organization which is noted for its legal victories against white supremacist organizations and other groups which it defines as “hate groups”, has a new target:  African-American neurosurgeon and possible presidential candidate Ben Carson. The SPLC’s main complaint against Dr. Carson seems to be their assessment of him as “anti-LGBT” and opposes same-sex “marriage.”  But there’s more:  Staunchly supportive of President Obama, the SPLC was incensed when Carson spoke in opposition of the... Read more

2015-02-09T07:40:28-05:00

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 7:40 am   By

So you want to do something romantic on Valentine’s Day–and that means you DON’T want to subject your date to unsavory images of bondage, discipline, domination, submission, sadism and masochism.  In short, you don’t want to see “50 Shades of Grey.” So how should you celebrate, sans erotica? Here’s an idea:  Hit your local theater to see OLD FASHIONED, a romantic drama about a former frat boy who gives up his reckless carousing and now runs an antique shop in a... Read more

2015-02-08T12:47:36-05:00

Last updated on: February 8, 2015 at 12:47 pm   By

Father Basel Yaldo, a Chaldean Catholic priest who has served for the last nine years in suburban Detroit, was ordained on Friday, February 6, as an auxiliary bishop in Baghdad.  He was one of two Detroit-area Chaldean priests elevated by Pope Francis.  Bishop Yaldo, 44, will serve in Baghdad while the other, 58-year-old Chorbishop Emanuel Shaleta, will serve in Toronto. Nine years ago Father Basel was kidnapped in his native Iraq by anti-Christian extremists.  For three days, he was beaten by his captors.  After... Read more

2015-02-07T15:41:17-05:00

Last updated on: February 7, 2015 at 3:41 pm   By

Do you appreciate the Sisters who taught you to add and subtract, to diagram a sentence, to pray and to be kind to your neighbor?  Before Catholic Schools Week is too distant a reflection in the rear-view mirror, I thought I’d step up to thank several of the nuns who helped to shape the person I am today. The reason for my reflection?  Well, Britain’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education, the opposition party’s leader on education policy, thinks nuns don’t... Read more

2015-02-05T16:04:54-05:00

Last updated on: February 5, 2015 at 4:04 pm   By

If you’re going to attack Christianity for what some guys did 1,100 years ago, why not do it at the National Prayer Breakfast? I am, frankly, struggling to wrap my head around this: WHY THE HELL would the President of the United States, invited to lead our nation in prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast, choose that moment to insult the 76% of the U.S. population who identify themselves as Christian? The blogosphere is filling with outrage today, after Obama’s latest... Read more

2015-02-04T22:01:04-05:00

Last updated on: February 4, 2015 at 10:01 pm   By

An Indiana woman has been charged in connection with the death of her 25-week-old unborn baby; and frankly, I’m puzzled.  Doesn’t that happen every day, in cities across the United States? Purvi Patel, an Indiana resident, was found guilty February  3 of felony child neglect and feticide, after she ended her pregnancy last July by taking an abortion drug, then discarded the child’s body in a dumpster.  LifeNews has the story: Patel was arrested last July after she took abortion pills to... Read more

2015-02-03T16:28:32-05:00

Last updated on: February 3, 2015 at 4:28 pm   By

I’m not sure when I first heard Karl Keating on the radio–maybe the late 1980s?  the early 1990s?  I know that in the mid-’90s, I was in the audience when Keating, the host of America’s noted Catholic apologetics show, Catholic Answers, appeared in the Detroit area in debate with anti-Catholic preacher Dave Hunt.  Al Kresta was the moderator; and Keating won hands-down, in my estimation. I remember Karl telling one story from the early days of his ministry:  how he’d come... Read more

2015-02-03T13:11:24-05:00

Last updated on: February 3, 2015 at 1:11 pm   By

Lent is a season of penitence:  Giving up chocolate.  Turning off the TV.  Fasting from between-meal snacks, and abstaining from eating meat. It’s also a season for personal growth:  Prayer.  Reading.  Reflection. So who says you can’t enjoy it, too? *     *     *     *     * If you’re a fan of the writings of Fr. Dwight Longenecker, as I am, you’ll want to rush out before Lent starts (that’s February 18, so hurry!) and... Read more

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