Ready To Be Martyrs Coptic Christians in Egypt claim their ancient roots. DAVID PINAULT | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 My sharpest memory from Cairo is what my driver said: al-Masih biygarribna, “Christ is testing us.” I’d hired Sami to drive me around the city. As soon as I saw on his wrist thewashma, a faded tattoo in the shape of a cross, I knew he was a Copt, a member of Egypt’s Christian minority, a community that predates the Muslim presence by centuries. Since... Read more
By Michael Gryboski , Christian Post Reporter May 4, 2012|7:59 am WASHINGTON – The head of a California-based evangelical religious liberty group stated Thursday that Christianity is presently the most persecuted religion on earth based on evidence gathered. Dr. Carl Moeller told The Christian Post at an event on rising religious intolerance abroad that Christians are “the most persecuted in the world” when the nonprofit examined religious groups suffering from increased persecution. “In terms of sheer numbers, the large size of the Christian... Read more
Do you need a spoonful of sugar to help the cynicism and anger of this campaign season go down? I can’t think of a better place to go looking for it than Christopher Closeup, written by fellow Patheos blogger, Tony Rossi. Tony’s posts aren’t about May flowers and sunshine. They are about Sonshine; the grace of goodness and good that is all around us, if we just look for it. For instance, what would you do if money came raining... Read more
Deacon Greg Kandra, over at The Deacon’s Bench, has a post today that pays a specifically Catholic and Christian tribute to the laborers of the world. In all the ridiculous campaign hype about who “built this” we’ve forgotten that whatever it is, be it sky scraper, family home or interstate highway, it was laboring men and women who actually built it. They built it by the sweat of their brow, often for low wages and before they achieved the benefits... Read more
I am proud of the way that the United States Catholic Bishops have handled the HHS Mandate. If the various blogs, Facebook comments and internet rants I’ve read are any indication, I would guess that the bishops have been and are subjected to a continuous dose of what amounts to verbal abuse. I wouldn’t be surprised if the USCCB and each of the various bishops has their own Crazy People File. If they do, I’m sure it bulges with emails and... Read more
One of my best friends is a former prostitute/drug dealer/drug addict/alcoholic. Despite this, I don’t think she would be a star lecturer at Yale. Prostitutes/porn stars/pimps are welcome to lecture at an annual Yale event called Sex Week. According to an August 21 article by Nathan Harden in The Daily Beast, prostitutes, porn stars and other sex industry promoters are not only welcome at Yale, their “lectures” are billed as “sex education.” The article, When Sex Isn’t Sexy: My Bizarre Education at Yale University, says in... Read more
President Obama has evidently refused to allow Cardinal Timothy Dolan to offer the benediction at the Democratic National Convention. According to the New York Post: “Dolan — considered the top Catholic official in the nation, as head of the Archdiocese of New York and president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops — tipped off Democrats a few weeks ago that he had agreed to deliver the prime-time benediction at the Republican convention in Tampa next week, Dolan’s spokesman Joseph Zwilling... Read more
I have no way to know for sure. But I am guessing that the Democrats got smart this weekend and decided to put an end to the Dolan Prayer Fight in what was about the tenth round. After being roasted and toasted for ignoring the Cardinal’s offer to pray at their convention, the Dems have announced that they are, indeed, going to allow equal-time praying when they gather to officially nominate President Obama as their 2012 candidate for President. Smart... Read more
I was elected to public office for the first time in 1980; the same year John Lennon was murdered and the Moral Majority became a major player in American politics. The country was reeling from the capture of our citizens at the American Embassy in Iran. There were long lines to buy gasoline and interest for a new car could easily cost 15% for someone with good credit. The Cold War and its mind-numbing threat of universal nuclear annihilation hung like... Read more
I have never been a traffic cop, a test pilot, or a lion tamer. But I have been a full-time, stay-at-home mom. I think that qualifies me to be any of the above. The Mommy Wars have raged ever since Betty Friedan told us about the “problem with no name.” Her apt description of the ennui of the enforced stay-at-home-momism of the mid-twentieth century was enough to launch a sociopolitical movement. It was also the first shot fired across the... Read more
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