How can you leave the Catholic Church? I ask this question and give my answer at the National Catholic Register. How can you leave the Catholic Church? The question was rhetorical, not literal. I asked it of the air, more or less, as my husband was driving the car. At the same time that I asked it rhetorically, I meant it absolutely. I recently talked to someone I know who told me that she’d “left” the Catholic Church. She’s now... Read more
This story of politically correct excess speaks for itself. Oregon is now allowing children as young as 15 to undergo sex-change surgery without parental consent. This, in a state that does not allow 15-year-olds to drive a car or smoke a cigarette. This irresponsible action by the state of Oregon is symptomatic of the nihilistic push in our nation that is clearly running ahead of both common sense and our long-understood ideas of freedom. Sex change surgery is just the... Read more
Here’s what happened: Pope Francis was on a Papal tour of Bolivia. He was in the process of greeting Bolivian President Evo Morales. Now President Morales is a head of state. One would expect him to behave like a head of state and not a middle-schooler, bent on a deliberately blasphemous prank. But then … this guy’s bad news from jump street. He removed the Bible and the cross from the presidential palace as soon as he took office and... Read more
Oklahoma’s governor, Mary Fallin has decided that the 10 Commandments Monument can stay on state capitol grounds. The Oklahoma State Supreme Court recently ruled that the monument violates the Oklahoma State Constitution. They made this ruling despite the fact that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that a similar monument in Texas does not violate the Constitution of the United States of America. The reaction from legislators was predictable, with calls to impeach the Supreme Court members who voted against... Read more
Purity is a virtue of the soul … not even when the body is violated is it lost. St Augustine St Augustine had a lot to say about rape. His teaching on this subject is the historic Christian attitude toward rape victims. It speaks comfort to the victims of ISIS and sex slavery today, as well as rape victims all over the world and throughout history. St Augustine also discusses at length the practice — which is certainly still practiced in certain cultures today... Read more
This is for those who lie in the field, the lake, the dump and the shallow grave. It is for the ones whose bodies will never be found, whose names will go unrecorded; for the forgotten, unidentified, unfound women who died at the hands of their attackers. Rebecca Hamilton I know a simple way to turn St Maria Goretti into a saint that rape victims and battered women all over the world would turn to in gratitude and adoration. Why don’t... Read more
Remember the website on which an anonymous woman claimed she was 7 weeks pregnant and offered not to have an abortion if people donated $1 million to stop her? Well — Surprise! — “she” is a he who has other questionable internet sites. If you click on the website now, you’ll find a claim that the earlier site was an “augmented excerpt” (whatever that is) fro a novel. In short, the whole thing is a hoax. From LifeNews.com: A supposed demand... Read more
I’ve spent a fair amount of my adult life, trying to help rape victims. I was one of the six original founders of the YWCA Rape Crisis Center here in Oklahoma, the first such center in the state. I have passed a ton of legislation to help end the scourge of violence against women, including more than a few laws to help rape victims. I spent a number of years on the board of an organization that rescued women who... Read more
This is my first blog post for the National Catholic Register. It’s about Father Stanley Rother, martyr, a priest who refused to flee his post to save himself. American Martyr Fr. Stanley Rother: “A Shepherd Cannot Leave His Flock” by Rebecca Hamilton 07/06/2015 Comments (1) “The reality is that we are in danger. This is one of the reasons I have for staying in the face of physical harm. The shepherd cannot run away at the first sign of danger. Pray for us…”... Read more
I’m going to launch into the political ramifications of the Supreme Court Decision destroying marriage as a legal construct in a day or so. But before I do, I want to make a simple point: Conversion of the culture does not begin at the ballot box or changes in the law. It ends there. Conversion of the culture does not even begin with bringing your family and friends to Christ. That’s a mid-point. Conversion of the culture begins with yielding... Read more
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