Get your camera ready. It only happens every 150 years or so. We’re going to have a super, bloody, blue, totally-eclipsing moon. What is a super, bloody, blue, eclipsing moon? Why, it’s a super moon, that’s also a blue moon, that’s also a blood moon, that will undergo a total eclipse. Super moons happen when the moon’s orbit around the earth is at perigee, when it’s closest to earth. That makes it look bigger; up to 14% bigger and 30%... Read more
I wrote a post for the National Catholic Register discussing my latest medical problems. Here it is. My heart attack did everything it could to warn me, short of standing up, waving its arms and giving a stadium whistle. Looking back, with that oh-so-clear 20/20 hindsight, I can see that I had been having symptoms for a long time. Then about six months ago, things really kicked into high gear. I had no idea that this was my heart, trying... Read more
The stock market has been going up like an express elevator, fueled by a mega transfer of wealth in the form of the recent tax cut. I watched one of the financial channels the day after the bill passed, and what I saw left me flummoxed. The talking heads were behaving like a bunch of drunks at a party. They were all over the tax cut, prognosticating about a market that was going to be hypered by the increase in... Read more
President Donald Trump made pro life history this week. He gave a speech addressing the annual March for Life from the Rose Garden, which was televised to the speech goers. This is the first time a President of the United States has addressed the March for Life. He also created a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the federal Health and Human Services Department. This division is tasked with dealing with complaints from health care workers who do not want to... Read more
Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock Arkanas recently announced that he would not attend the annual March for Life in his Diocese. In his own words, “The reason is that Arkansas Right to Life has chosen as the keynote speaker for the rally a person who has good anti-abortion credentials but otherwise is decidedly not an appropriate pro-life speaker, namely Attorney General Leslie Rutledge who this last year worked tirelessly to secure the execution of four criminals who posed no... Read more
Martin Luther King, Jr, was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. Every man, woman and child in this nation owes him a great debt of gratitude. He worked to end segregation, lynching and other crimes against humanity that were committed against black people. That took courage. He did this through a Christian, distinctly American paradigm. That took greatness. I’ve read that he modeled his non-violent approach on the revolutionary work of Mahatma Gandhi, who famously said, I admire... Read more
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I’m taking off for a couple of weeks. Have a Holy and Merry Christmas. See you in 2018! Read more
“Christians are called to work concretely in the realities of this world, illuminating them with the light that comes from God.” Pope Francis Read more
Blessed Stanley Rother’s life and death offer religious leaders who are honestly seeking to follow Christ a contemporary example of how to do it. After his beatification here in Oklahoma City, I wrote a post for the National Catholic Register. Here is part of what I said: I wonder what Father Stanley Rother thinks of all this. He’s now a blessed, beatified martyr of the Church. People say things like “Father Stanley, pray for us,” and they don’t mean it... Read more
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