A reader writes: We just found out last week that my husband’s job is in danger. He works for a Catholic non-profit organization and due to the economy donations are hugely down. We don’t know if they will be able to survive. Besides our family, there would be many other families affected by this as well. Father, hear our prayer for this family, that this man’s job would survive and that he could continue to provide for his family. Please... Read more

A reader writes: We just found out last week that my husband’s job is in danger. He works for a Catholic non-profit organization and due to the economy donations are hugely down. We don’t know if they will be able to survive. Besides our family, there would be many other families affected by this as well. Father, hear our prayer for this family, that this man’s job would survive and that he could continue to provide for his family. Please... Read more

hires high school sophomore to write column for them. He bravely faces the applause by suggesting that the abolition of religion will bring universal peace. And get this! It’s all done in a funnee dialog between God (cleverly portrayed as an old guy pacing around heaven and feeling frustrated with humans) and Gabriel (who is, and I’m holding my sides to keep them from splitting with laughter, a harried middle management bureaucrat!) Ah! What a novel conceit! Boy! As a... Read more

“A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face a felony charge in Colorado for an alleged hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job“ Equal justice under the law! But some people are more equal than others. Read more

Catholic Exchange is publishing a series by Fr. Michael Sweeney (my old pastor and now President of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology) on Government in the Church, Part 1: Introduction & Collaboration Between Laity and Hierarchy! Check thou it out! Read more

in which, once again, I attempt to make clear the murky and mysterious process by which I relate my politics to my faith. Read more

here’s something that just came over the transom from the Susan B. Anthony list: Hello pro-life bloggers! Wanted to make sure you saw Marjorie’s latest post up now on Redstate.com. After incredible wins for the pro-life cause last Tuesday night, it’s time to leverage our strength to achieve legislative victory for the unborn. To start off, the SBA List is supporting two bills that would end taxpayer funding of abortion: the Chris Smith/Dan Lipinski “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”... Read more

Tim Shipe ponders the mystery of GOP pols who are so strangely reticent to push a prolife agenda once elected: One of my biggest beefs with Republicans and many Republican pro-lifers is that there seems to be almost an embarrassment over the issue of Abortion, if the audience is not already overwhelmingly pro-life. My own experience in running against a pro-life Republican was one where I was the one bringing up the issue as a pro-life Democrat, even as that... Read more

Credulous Suckers Who Believe Whatever Their Pope Tells Them… Read more

Please pray for the Iraqi Church as they continue to bear the brunt of this horrific experiment in nation-building. Pray that the civil authority in Iraq will be both competent and just in facing the monsters that do these things. Read more