Ben Stein’s Expelled. It sounds like it should be the latest college comedy, perhaps loosely based on Back to School or some such thing. What it really is, however, is the latest in the series of the new, “hip” documentaries started by Michael Moore’s Roger and Me dealing with the controversy between Darwinism and Intelligent Design from an unabashedly pro-ID standpoint. (more…) Read more
“Is it consistent to profess our beliefs in church on Sunday, and then during the week to promote business practices or medical procedures contrary to those beliefs? Is it consistent for practicing Catholics to ignore or exploit the poor and the marginalized, to promote sexual behavior contrary to Catholic moral teaching, or to adopt positions that contradict the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death? Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must... Read more
United Nations funded RH Reality Check Blog writer, Louisa Pyle from Medical Students for Choice writes about an angle that has not been covered too much in pro-life circles in her essay The Abortion Curriculum Has Left the Classroom. She notes that more and more medical schools are NOT including abortion in their curriculum. Abortion is a shadow that wisps in and out of medicine, much like the quiet shadow of abortion in many women’s lives, not addressed directly, not... Read more
Part I At the end of the 4th century, a theological battle was being waged over what status Origen and his disciples should be given by the Church. As an elderly bishop, St Epiphanius of Salamis had been working for over a decade to have a universal condemnation placed upon Origen. Following in the footsteps of St Methodius, he thought Origen was a dangerous enemy of orthodoxy.[i] As soon as Epiphanius recruited St Jerome to his side, we can the... Read more
Fernando Lugo Méndez, a retired Catholic bishop suspended from exercising his episcopal and priestly faculties, has won the Paraguayan presidency, marking the end of the 61-year dominance of the nation’s conservative Asociación Nacional Republicana – Partido Colorado. Lugo belongs to the Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Christian Democratic Party), which is one of eight opposition parties that form the alliance group known as Alianza Patriótica por el Cambio (Patriotic Alliance for Change). Pope John Paul II accepted Lugo’s resignation from the episcopacy... Read more
It looks like I may have been on the cutting edge on this one: Hailed until only months ago as a silver bullet in the fight against global warming, biofuels are now accused of snatching food out of the mouths of the poor. Billions have been poured into developing sugar- and grain-based ethanol and biodiesel to help wean rich economies from their addiction to carbon-belching fossil fuels, the overwhelming source of man-made global warming. But as soaring prices for staples... Read more
The Holy Father touched on many many issues while he was here. And one of those issues was immigration. Evidently he struck a nerve because Representative Tancredo of Colorado had this to say: Accusing the pope of “faith-based marketing,” Mr. Tancredo said Benedict’s comments welcoming immigrants “may have less to do with spreading the Gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the Church.” Mr. Tancredo, a former Catholic who now attends an evangelical Christian church, said it was... Read more
Wintley Phipps, the president of the US Dream Academy, offers a rendition of Amazing Grace that simply overwhelms the imagination. It’s unforgettable. The US Dream Academy is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help and inspire children whose misfortune is to have family members in prison. Watch this inspiring video: Read more
Wintley Phipps, the president of the US Dream Academy, offers a rendition of Amazing Grace that simply overwhelms the imagination. It’s unforgettable. The US Dream Academy is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help and inspire children whose misfortune is to have family members in prison. Watch this inspiring video: Read more
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