Here is a brand new video (4 of 5): Taken from this. Video is produced by Corpus Christi Watershed. Video shot & edited by Danny Mendez. Feel free to promote this video in any way you like. There is a young girl who sings VERY WELL in this video. Anything you can do to let people know about this project helps us very much. THANKS!!!! Check thou it out! Read more

used to believe in, rather than talk about, limited government. Today, however, outfits like the Heritage Foundation choose, as a VP, the most ardent advocate and defender of radical expansions in the power of the federal government, including torture and warrantless spying on American citizens that the Bush Administration produced. Sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made inside the Beltway. Read more

A reader writes from the Great White North: Last year at this time, I wrote to ask for prayers for my sister-in-law, Joanne, who had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She underwent surgery and chemotherapy over the fall and winter. Last month I saw her for the first time since her illness, and you would never even know she had been ill. The doctor said that if she has four more years of clean checkups, she will be considered cancer-free.... Read more

Sometimes, I live up to my blog motto, and I think last week was one of those times. Busy with other projects, I happened to run across this, felt incensed at the crass manipulation it highlights, and sounded off with my disgust at Fox and it’s cynical dishonesty. I don’t really regret that. But I do regret making the stupid statement that the Cordoba Mosque is just a local issue and, in particular, I regret calling the matter a “phony... Read more

Comments, questions and answers from the forefront of the Jolly Pride Movement. Applaud us or be crushed under the merciless wheels of the Juggernaut of Sensitivity. (By the way, kudos to Inside Catholic for the awesome “Equality” graphic they put with the article!) Read more

My pal Kevin O’Brien and his sweater star as Professor Stanford Nutting, a classic passive-aggressive who reminds me eerily of the DRE at a parish I used to attend. There is nobody on earth more tyrannically clerical than a teacher, infected with the Spirit of Vatican II, who has carved out a little fiefdom in a classroom or parish and who is committed to “liberating” us from the Oppressive Church. By the way, if you want the context, then go... Read more

Alaska’s Catholics played key role in passage of parental notice law in minors’ abortions I had the honor of meeting the good archbishop when I was in Anchorage last fall. Thanks be to God for good bishops. Read more

…that get trotted out against sundry aspects of Catholic teaching. His #7 (“It’s not infallible, so it’s wrong”) is a favorite, not just with dismissing Humanae Vitae, but with dismissing pretty much any Catholic moral teaching that gets in the way of what we want to do. Feel free to add some of your own. Some of my favorites include “Science has discovered that the universe functions according to knowable laws. Therefore, there is no Legislator.” “The universe is extremely... Read more

Statement By Feminists Choosing Life Of New York To Protect Woman from Exploitation as Egg Donors and Enforce the NY Legislature’s Ban on Taxpayer Money Going to Advance Human Cloning, Feminists Choosing Life of New York Will Appeal Flawed Lower Court Ruling Rochester (MMD Newswire) August 25, 2010 — Last week, Feminists Choosing Life of New York cleared the way for the Appellate Division, Third Department, to hear FCLNY’s challenge to the State Health Department’s payment-for-eggs program. If allowed to... Read more

Given the unemployment situation today, I thought your readers might like to know about the relaunch of my site, CatholicJobs.com. Right now, we get about 150 postings a month from different Catholic churches, ministries, schools, and other organizations. Excellent! May God bless your work helping folks find jobs through Christ our Lord! Mother Mary and St. Joseph the Worker, pray for them and bless the work of their hands! Read more