I will be re-posting various article from the past that I have written for various outlets. This article was first published by National Catholic Register in 2008. The Tale of Two Churches I have been a Catholic now for thirteen years. Like most converts, I described my reception into the Catholic Church as ‘coming home.’ However, [...]
I'm a committed Catholic and a cautious conservative. I'm Catholic because I'm convinced of the truth of the Catholic faith. I'm a conservative because it has always seemed to me that the conservative philosophy has reason, experience and common sense on its side. However, I'm a "cautious" conservative because I am aware that any philosophy can [...]
When I lived in England people were not so scared all the time. Here in the USA I hear so much fear from people. I've lived back in my home country now for ten years. For eight of those years Barack Obama was the president. From those who disliked the president there was so much fear [...]
You know those screens they had when we were kids? Uncle Joe would wrestle with the tripod legs and pinch his fingers trying to raise the darn thing, then he'd plug in the projector and show his holiday slides until everyone was yawning. I sometimes feel like one of those projector screens. A woman writes on [...]
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops have issued a statement re-assuring everyone that Catholics are welcoming to refugees. This is unremarkable in itself and simply re-affirms other documents which lay out Catholic social teaching on refugees and immigrants. It's good to hear the church's social teaching on these matters, but one does pause to wonder at some [...]
Embed from Getty Images The left clearly don't like President Trump's edict suspending travel from seven countries, but their hysterical hyperbole over the whole matter isn't going to do them any favors. The executive order might be dumb. The media's response is dumber. This post really isn't about the order itself or about Trump. It [...]
Today's blog post over at the National Catholic Register goes through a topic I have written on before. God has created us to long for and need the unconditional love of a Father. Feminists can deny it. Children can rebel against it. Adults can think it doesn't matter, but it's there like a mountain. Its a [...]
Have you ever noticed how lies have to keep getting bigger and bigger? Take, for example, the lie of the sexual revolution. It started out being a kind of hippie dream. You could "love the one you're with" and with artificial contraception, have complete and joyful sexual freedom. But it didn't stop there. It couldn't stop [...]
Archbishop Scicluna of Malta I posted earlier today on this story in London's Daily Telegraph. The short version is that a Dutch doctor had decided to kill an old lady who had dementia and the old woman began to resist, so the woman's family was asked to hold her down while the doctor gave [...]
So called "Assisted Suicide" has been legal for some time in the land of tulips, wooden shoes and windmills. The Netherlands legalized murder by injection seventeen years ago, and the numbers of old people, depressed, terminally ill and disabled who are injected goes up year by year. To date there have been about 5,500 deaths. The latest [...]