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

Te’o was Pranked? It Appears He Was

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

The weird story of Manti Te’o and the girlfriend who wasn’t gets even weirder. It appears he may have been pranked — which is too mild a word for it — by a serial hoaxer. The man who committed this hoax had evidently piled up at least six other victims besides Te’o. This hoaxer enlisted friends, including his sister, to help him carry on this hoax. Today’s technology makes it easy for people to lie convincingly about themselves, which is... Read more

Four More Years: Joe Biden is Off and Running at the Mouth

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

Vice President Joe Biden kicked off four more years of verbal blundering at the Iowa State Pre-Inauguration Inaugural Ball by telling the crowd, “I am proud to be President of the United States.” Enjoy. Read more

Video: Paris Rally for Marriage

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

This is one of three rallies for marriage that took place in Paris on one day this week. Read more

What Did Playing Jesus in The Passion of the Christ Mean to Jim Caviezel?

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

This is a fascinating interview with Jim Caviezel concerning his experiences playing Christ in The Passion. Read more

Katrina Fernandez: Courage with a Word Processor

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

Katrina Fernandez, who blogs at The Crescat, has courage. She also has wit, enormous talent and a great, big, loving heart. I love Katrina’s blog. She has this ability to touch my girl side, the female giggly part of me, and get it rockin’. Yesterday, she touched that other girl side, the one that has given life; the mothering, maternal, deeper than bone totally female part of me. Katrina wrote about her abortion, the experience and the grief afterwards. Good... Read more