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
The newest issue of Charlie Hebdo makes fun of the Pope. I doubt that the editorial staff is worried about a violent response to this. After all, they’ve already printed quite a number of issues mocking and otherwise attacking the Catholic Church. I found this clip from the movie The Robe. It dramatizes the way that Christians respond to these things. The Robe is fiction, but the fact of Christian faithfulness, even to death, is how the message of the... Read more
In keeping with my longstanding tradition of kicking over hornet’s nests, I’m going to ask a question. What is the most perfect prayer? Over on the Facebook page of a friend of mine, a commenter who identified himself as a priest said that the Holy Mass is the “most perfect prayer.” A Deacon of the Church responded that yes, it was. I’ve been rolling that one around in my mind ever since I read it. Mass is, from beginning to... Read more
I remember the predictions after Roe v Wade. I thought that the people making these arguments were, to put it bluntly, nuts. Abortion will lead to euthanasia, they said. Abortion will lead to human cloning, they warned. Abortion will be used as birth control. Abortion will damage the respect our society holds for human life. I thought they were nuts. Such things would never happen. But look at us now. Scientists are in the process of creating animal/human hybrids.... Read more
If Martin Luther King, Jr was alive today, would he be pro life? His niece, Alveda King, says he would. From LifeNews.com: “I know in my heart that if Uncle Martin were alive today, he would join with me in the greatest civil rights struggle of this generation – the recognition of the unborn child’s basic right to life,” she told LifeNews.com previously. “My uncle Martin would agree that we cannot end poverty, hunger, or suffering by killing those who... Read more
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