Photosource: telecare Katrina Fernandez has pictures from yesterday’s March for Life, and she promises that more are coming. Watching yesterday on EWTN, I heard estimates of nearly half-million people marching peacefully and cheerfully, in the freezing rain, in support of life, which is — at its core, as Tim Muldoon writes — a march in support of love: In our experience, the metanoia of loving has meant seeing orphans not as problems to be solved, but as beloved children who... Read more
Over at Christopher Closeup, Tony Rossi debuts his first podcast since coming to Patheos, and it’s a stunner! Journalist Rita Cosby, talks to Tony about her father, whose mysterious past had colored her world from an early age; it is one gripping interview! It was Christmas Eve, 1983, when the future Emmy Award-winning journalist and best-selling author heard her mother, Adda, and father, Richard, having an argument. Richard told them he was unhappy and was leaving the family. The devastating... Read more
My column over at First Things this week was the result of watching excerpts of Martin Luther King’s soaring speeches and then listening to our current batch of the “best and brightest.”: Our presidential choices are not much better. If a recent GOP debate was notable for Newt Gingrich’s populist smackdown of the press, every candidate took a turn at tongue-tumbling and homina-homining his way through a response. Our current president—who, sans teleprompter, is as prone to stumble-stuttering as his... Read more
The president, whose administration last Friday declared that religiously-founded institutions — schools, hospitals and charities — have no right to their own consciences when it comes to paying for contraception, abortifacients and sterilization — dropped these pearls for us on the occasion of the anniversary of Roe v Wade, a law passed some 40 million abortions ago: As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this Supreme Court decision not only protects a woman’s... Read more
I’d been wanting to post this for a while but had forgotten the name of the comic making these excellent observations. Thanks to Tom Elia! Read more
I have a largely apolitical friend (he voted for Obama, last election, and this year says he’ll vote for anyone-but) currently in South Carolina, on business, and apparently he was staying at the same hotel as Romney. He called this morning to say, “I had a brush with fame!” Enjoying an after-dinner cocktail, or something, he heard a buzz, looked around and saw Mitt Romney walking through with his wife at about 10:30 pm. “I waved and he waved back!”... Read more
If you’re going to be taking part in the annual March for Life in Washington DC, or elsewhere, Marcia Morrissey has a piece that will prime your pump: Going out to the sidewalk on a brutally cold day, bundled up against the snow, she felt that ugliness return. She thought, “Oh man, I didn’t know I would feel this way again, I hate this place—I don’t want to be here! Lord, you are going to have to help me, because... Read more
Two Tebow pieces of interest to Tebow fans: First up, Joseph Bottum, who made a big hit with his Christmas-themed Amazon Single (a short ebook) Dakota Christmas, has published another one, this time on Tebow: The Gospel According to Tim: Believe in him, I mean: believe that he’s for real. The young man is drunk on charity, in the same way he’s drunk on the endorphins that race through his body during his strenuous daily workouts. In the same way... Read more
Okay, this morning, I wrote: Rick Perry is out. Ron Paul is still in the game, and may yet run as a third-party candidate. But he won’t be the GOP nominee. It is down to Obama vs. Romney, or Obama vs. Gingrich, or Obama vs. Santorum. So, the White House has to be feeling pretty good about things, just now. Not that Perry ever had the president’s re-election campaign at all quaking, but they must be thinking, with the field... Read more
Rick Perry is out. Ron Paul is still in the game, and may yet run as a third-party candidate. But he won’t be the GOP nominee. It is down to Obama vs. Romney, or Obama vs. Gingrich, or Obama vs. Santorum. So, the White House has to be feeling pretty good about things, just now. Not that Perry ever had the president’s re-election campaign at all quaking, but they must be thinking, with the field narrowed, “we can easily beat... Read more
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