This is not a political blog (and don’t look for that to change any time soon), but two interesting posts on President Obama’s approach to the so-called culture wars popped up today that are too interesting to pass up. First, a post by Peter Beinart on Obama and the negating of culture issues: [Obama] seems [...]
“The lethal logic of Roe v. Wade is that nobody has rights that we are bound to respect if they cannot effectively assert those rights. They are at the mercy and the discretion of those who can effectively assert their rights. We’re not talking simply about the unborn, we’re talking about the aged, the radically [...]
I had given up, after wrestling for a better part of the day, articulating my own thoughts about the juncture between today’s inauguration and Thursday’s March for Life. Then Matthew Warner summed it up better than I ever could: In Barack Obama’s lifetime our nation has struggled in accepting African-Americans and treating them as equals. [...]
This morning, across the nation, many people will be setting out for Washington, D.C., to participate in Thursday’s March for Life. Please keep these pilgrims in your prayers: Our Lady of Guadalupe, we turn to you who are the protectress of unborn children and ask that you intercede for us, so that we may more [...]
Just in time for the March for life, the national media campaign from CatholicVote.com has released its first video:
No one can lay God and the Kingdom on the table before another man; even the believer cannot do it for himself. But however strongly unbelief may feel itself thereby justified it cannot forget the eerie feeling induced by the words “Yet perhaps it is true.” That perhaps is the unavoidable temptation which it cannot [...]
In our house, at the bottom of our main staircase, is a large picture of the Sacred Heart. It was a gift from a member of our parish who is in the regular habit of giving away such pictures (complete with the large, unwieldy frame), presumably even to strangers (since he gave us ours at [...]
Living in Illinois the past month has given me reason to reflect on the nature of leadership. I’m sure everyone who isn’t living under a rock has heard about the recent… troubles of our governor. Even now the wheels are turning to force him from office and convict him of criminal wrong-doing. People are saying [...]
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus passed into eternal life this morning, reminding us once again that death is the fate of all men: We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we are born toward death, and in each of our lives the work of dying is already [...]
One of my “dirty little secrets” is that, when I lived in St. Louis, I enjoyed listening to the Lutheran (LCMS) radio station in town — particularly the show Issues, Etc. (which has since moved to another station in town for reasons that have been well-chronicled elsewhere). While I didn’t always agree with the show [...]
