Stop Slogan-Voting. Stop Hate-Voting. Stop Being Manipulated. Part 4. I Vote Pro-Life = Slogan-Voting

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Power corrupts. Lord Acton You cannot serve both God and mammon. Jesus Christ I vote pro-life! Pro-life people sometimes make this statement as if they were throwing down a gauntlet, or perhaps, ending an argument. Talk to them about the many nuances of grown-up politics and they will try to end the inevitable confusion by announcing emphatically, “I vote pro-life!” The unhappy truth is that they can’t vote pro-life. “Pro Life” ain’t on the ballot. All they have to choose from when they go... Read more

Is the Male/Female Sexual Difference Key to Understanding Marriage?

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Is the male/female sexual difference key to understanding marriage? Not so long ago, that question would have been greeted with confusion. After all, it was questioning the obvious; kind of like asking if gravity is key to keeping us from flying off into space. But times have changed, and today the question is more likely to be greeted with cries of “bigot” and claims about “homophobia.” Perhaps the real question should be, are we deluding ourselves? Is the claim that... Read more

Video Tribute to 40 Years of Abortion on Demand: Watch Once, Shower Twice

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

I didn’t write about the 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade yesterday. I didn’t because, as we say in these parts, I had no spit. I just didn’t wanna even think about it. Then last night, I saw this. At first view, I thought it must be a parody attacking the abortion movement. I went to the Center for Reproductive Rights, the group which is credited with this thing, and there it was. In addition to the overall sleeziness of... Read more

Three Ways to Betray Jesus, Excommunication and the Power of Elections

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Historically and scripturally there have been two ways that most people betray Jesus: 1. The St Peter and all the apostles except John Way. This is the deny-Him-under-duress, run-away-from-threats-and-then-repent-later method of betrayal. I would wager that in some form or another every single one of us has done a bit of this. I know I have. I’ve hemmed and hawed; ducked and covered, trying to keep all my old friends from my life Before Christ. Trouble was, they all found... Read more

Is There Something in the Drinking Water, or, Were People Always This Crazy and We Just Didn’t Notice?

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Is there something funny in our drinking water? Or have people always been this crazy and we just didn’t notice? The reasons I’m asking are … Te’o and the girlfriend who wasn’t. If he’d been a lonely nerd with acne and a weight problem no one would have been all that surprised by a fantasy girlfriend. But everyone knows that football stars are like young lords on college campuses. The profs, the staff, the press, the administration and the girls... Read more

Do Pro Abortion Catholics Lack Essential Integrity?

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

“It represents a lack of integrity for a public official to expect others to accept the premise: “What I do publicly contradicts who I say I am religiously, but that doesn’t make any difference.” Bishop Lawrence Brandt of Greenburg Pennsylvania, issued a pastoral letter recently in which he raised an important issue about Catholic politicians who support abortion. Aside from the question of whether or not these politicians should take communion, (he thinks they shouldn’t) he raises the a more... Read more

Stop Slogan-Voting. Stop Hate-Voting. Stop Being Manipulated. Part 3. Puppet People = Legislators Who Can’t Take the Heat

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Public Catholic exists because of two events. 1. President Obama declared war on my church. I first learned about the (then) proposed HHS Mandate forcing religious institutions to purchase insurance that paid for contraceptives, abortifacients and sterilization in the fall of 2011. I knew immediately that this was an unprecedented attack on religious freedom. I also saw it as a deliberate attempt to destroy the Church’s moral voice by forcing it to compromise its teachings in the face of government... Read more

Obama’s Inaugural Address: What Did You Think?

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

What did you think of President Obama’s Inaugural Address? How did it compare with the address he gave four years ago? Did any part of it resonate with you? Did it leave you mad, sad, glad or just plain indifferent? One paragraph in particular got my attention: You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time – not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our... Read more

The Dynamic Duo Take the Oath

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Never in American history has a president and vice president formed a team like these two. It’s … Read more

I have a dream …

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Go back in time to August 28, 1963 …. Read more