Supporters estimate 1 million. Official estimates range as high as “at least 800,000.” That’s how many people showed up to support marriage in Paris Sunday. They came from all over the country, and they engaged in a peaceful march through the streets of Paris carrying signs that made it clear they were not attacking gay people, but supporting marriage. The reason for this protest was a proposed law that would re-write the French legal definition of marriage, changing it from... Read more
Stop Slogan-Voting. Stop Hate-Voting. Stop Being Manipulated. MONDAYS Why are Christians losing the Culture Wars? Read Stop Slogan-Voting. Stop Hate-Voting. Stop Being Manipulated beginning Monday, August 20 for home truth on real-world politics from a Christian/Catholic perspective. The series runs every Monday. I discontinued this series for the election and the holidays. Now, I’ll be starting it again. Public Catholic has picked quite a few new readers since I discontinued the series. So, I’ll re-run the old posts, one each... Read more
Ten reasons Catholic Church is cool 1. It was founded by Jesus Christ. It was founded by the Second Person of the Trinity, the Son of God, the Word of God made flesh. Ladies and gentlemen: Jesus Christ. 2. We don’t conform to society. Ahem: Chastity, Modesty, Pro-life, traditional marriage, care for the poor, disenfranchised and vulnerable, defense of the right to private property and a just wage. So basically, the exact opposite of Hollywood/MTV/the media in general/and trendies on... Read more
My friend Judge Twyla Gray died a year ago last October after a twenty year battle with breast cancer. A few months before she died, she gave this speech at TEDxOKC. Twyla and I were first elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives together in 1980. She and her husband, Charles, set up the blind date that kicked off the courtship between me and my husband. Twyla was a brilliant woman whose career ultimately led her to spend many years... Read more
Mother Teresa gave this speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 1994. On the last day, Jesus will say to those on His right hand, “Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was sick and you visited me.” Then Jesus will turn to those on His left hand and say, “Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not feed me,... Read more
Today is the beginning of Vocations week. Many people have a particular vocation. Some people are called to a vowed life as a priest or religious. Others are called to marriage or to create a lay ministry. While these particular vocations are a great gift to all of us, there is a spiritual danger in over-emphasing them. The danger lies in the fact that an over-emphasis on particular vocations can make us forget the first and universal vocation of... Read more
God can use any of us to deliver His message. A case in point is the charming story of how John Paul II first received his call to the priesthood from a co-worker. This story of how God uses each of us to His purpose is a good one for us to ponder in this Year of Faith. How does God use you in your daily life to bring His light into the world? The CNA/EWTN News story describing what... Read more
I published a copy of a letter that was signed by over 1,000 priests and published in the Daily Telegraph in the UK. Here is a follow up story about the same letter in the The Telegraph. It reads in part: Gay marriage could signal return to ‘centuries of persecution’, – say 1,000 Catholic priests More than 1,000 priests have signed a letter voicing alarm that same-sex marriage could threaten religious freedom in a way last seen during “centuries of... Read more
Father Dwight Longenecker, who blogs at Standing on My Head, wrote a duzzy of a post yesterday. It seems Fr Longenecker read an article in The Guardian that is one of several that have been appearing lately in an attempt to gain acceptance for pedophilia. These articles follow the social-movement-tested tactic of introducing the process of building acceptance for a practice which is universally regarded as anathema by “discussing” it as something the practitioner “can’t help.” I would like to... Read more
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