I have been a reader for sometime. In light of the SCOTUS 2nd amendment ruling the other day, I am curious to get your opinion on the right of a man to defend himself and his family. Against a threat in public, a threat in their home or even a threat from government. Concealed weapon permit holder’s are told they can not shoot a man unless his life is at stake. Does this fall in line with our faith? How... Read more

I have been a reader for sometime. In light of the SCOTUS 2nd amendment ruling the other day, I am curious to get your opinion on the right of a man to defend himself and his family. Against a threat in public, a threat in their home or even a threat from government. Concealed weapon permit holder’s are told they can not shoot a man unless his life is at stake. Does this fall in line with our faith? How... Read more

Over at the Corner, Yuval Levin writes the following (worth quoting in full): If you haven’t read Shannen Coffin’s piece on Elena Kagan and the partial-birth-abortion debate today, you really should. What he describes, based on newly released Clinton White House memos, is absolutely astonishing. It seems that the most important statement in the famous position paper of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—a 1996 document that was central to the case of partial-birth-abortion defenders for the subsequent decade... Read more

Over at the Corner, Yuval Levin writes the following (worth quoting in full): If you haven’t read Shannen Coffin’s piece on Elena Kagan and the partial-birth-abortion debate today, you really should. What he describes, based on newly released Clinton White House memos, is absolutely astonishing. It seems that the most important statement in the famous position paper of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—a 1996 document that was central to the case of partial-birth-abortion defenders for the subsequent decade... Read more

…who is as impervious to the Twilight phenom as I am sends along this explanation of Why Chicks Love Twilight. Meanwhile, Catholic culture warriors put me in the awkward position of, well, not so much defending these tedious books as saying, “Can’t they just be bad books without us going all ooga booga about demons under every bed?” O’Brien also cites author Steve Wohlberg, who drew out the eerie similarities between Rowling’s inspiration for Potter and Meyer’s for Twilight, both... Read more

…who is as impervious to the Twilight phenom as I am sends along this explanation of Why Chicks Love Twilight. Meanwhile, Catholic culture warriors put me in the awkward position of, well, not so much defending these tedious books as saying, “Can’t they just be bad books without us going all ooga booga about demons under every bed?” O’Brien also cites author Steve Wohlberg, who drew out the eerie similarities between Rowling’s inspiration for Potter and Meyer’s for Twilight, both... Read more

One of our prayers got answered! Brian Visaggio writes: I wrote you a bit back requesting prayers for my seminary application. Well, guess the frak what? I got in. I want to thank everyone for their prayers and well-wishes, and I hope I’m not dropped from your prayers now that I’ll be needing them the most as a seminarian for the Diocese of Brooklyn. Thanks be to God! May God our Father bless your work in the Vineyard, Brian through... Read more

One of our prayers got answered! Brian Visaggio writes: I wrote you a bit back requesting prayers for my seminary application. Well, guess the frak what? I got in. I want to thank everyone for their prayers and well-wishes, and I hope I’m not dropped from your prayers now that I’ll be needing them the most as a seminarian for the Diocese of Brooklyn. Thanks be to God! May God our Father bless your work in the Vineyard, Brian through... Read more

on line and in 360-degree-a-ramavue! Read more

on line and in 360-degree-a-ramavue! Read more