Is your Congressperson trying to lie their way out of the decision to pull the vote on the bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks? Maybe. Public Catholic readers have contacted the offices of their various Congresspeople, and it sounds like they are getting a pack of lies and obfuscations in reply to their questions. These Congresspeople are relying on the fact that law-making is an arcane art to most people. They know that you don’t know how to wend... Read more
Why does nothing get done in Washington? Because they’re all running for the next election. This was a while back. And this was a couple of days ago. Candidates and political parties alike never stop campaigning long enough to govern.   Read more
It appears that there’s a budding bromance between India’s Prime Minister and President Barack Obama. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted our president at the airport with a big bear hug and then went on to describe the “chemistry” and “strong friendship” between himself and President Obama. Prime Minister Modi is leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is described as the Hindu nationalist party. His election raised fears that he would  undermine religious freedom in India. He was banned from... Read more
The United States House of Representatives’ leadership has made the decision to scrap a bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. They went for a bill banning the use of government monies to pay for abortions, instead. The reason? Evidently, a number of GOP congresswomen objected to the bill based on the fact that it did not allow sufficient exception for rape victims. I have a couple of points here. First, why not amend the bill... Read more
ISIS is organized murder’s answer to every lone serial killer who yearns for recognition. Just like Ted Bundy who famously claimed that when he killed someone he “felt like God,” and John Wayne Gacy who denied wrongdoing by saying “I didn’t kill anybody, I just took out the trash,” ISIS is proud of what they do and will tell anybody that there’s nothing wrong with it. ISIS connects its murderous behavior with Islam and makes the claim that ISIS is... Read more
Evidently, the Louisiana State Supreme Court woke up one morning and decided to K-O the legal protection for the seal of the confessional. This legal privilege, which has long protected priests from prosecution for not revealing the things said to them in confession, has been under attack from zealous prosecutors. A few years ago, a prosecutor, who evidently never heard of building a case through the vast investigative powers of the government, decided to bug and record a confession between... Read more
Today is the 6th Annual Tulsa March for Life, sponsored by 35 groups including Lutherans for Life, The Uprising, Anglicans for Life, Victory Christian, Tulsa Bible Church, Claremore  Nazarene, Holy Apostles Orthodox, Tulsa University Newman Center, Saint Gregory’s University, the Diocese of Tulsa, St Michael Episcopal, Oral Roberts University, Catholic Charities, Go Life Mobile, Mend Pregnancy Center and many others. Be there, or be square. Charles Dickens would have loved Rebecca Hamilton. “A Tale of Two Citizens… “It was the... Read more
I’ve ignored the flap over Pope Francis’ latest airplane interview, mainly because it has no merit. What I mean is that the carrying-on about the Holy Father’s use of certain phrases has no merit. It seems that Pope Francis affirmed the Catholic Church’s teaching on artificial birth control. In the process, he said that this teaching doesn’t mean that people need to have babies “like rabbits.” Big deal. All he meant was that people can use natural family planning. Big... Read more
The organizers of the 6th Annual Tulsa March for Life have given me the opportunity to do what I love to do the most: Speak for the basic and fundamental right to life of all human beings, particularly the babies. Every time I get the opportunity to do something for life, it is a gift of unmerited grace. Years ago, when I was on my knees with grief over what I had done in my pro choice/anti-God years, my dear and... Read more
I’ve known for several months now that I had a job of work ahead of me, explaining the current situation in Washington. I’ve dreaded doing this because, (1) There’s a lot I know that I can’t say, (2) People are going to get mad at me because of what I have to say, and (3) I’m worn thin by worries about my mother and that makes me sort of trigger happy in how I respond to rude comments. However, I’m... Read more
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