Mark Misulia

“Anyone who seriously wants to be a disciple of Christ should learn blackjack.” This from one of the leaders of a new and “arguably the largest and most well funded blackjack team,” made up entirely of churchgoing evangelical Christians , several of them pastors: . . . . Continue Reading »

Those who are open to gleaning wisdom and insight from the internet are urged to subscribe to Dominica , a new blog (and semi-annual journal) published by the Dominican students of the Province of St. Joseph, for whom our own Br. Gabriel Torreta , of happy memory, is now a frequent contributor. The . . . . Continue Reading »

Mississippi’s “personhood” amendment may pass  later today. Public Policy Polling found that, hours before today’s vote, 45 percent of voters supported the amendment, while 44 percent opposed. The amendment, or  Initiative #26 , asks: “Should the term . . . . Continue Reading »

New York City seems to be busy and bustling as always, despite the immanent October 21st apocalypse. Perhaps it is because Harold Camping ’s rapture prediction for May 21st didn’t materialize that his revised end-of-the-world date (tomorrow) seems to have come upon us unnoticed. But . . . . Continue Reading »

For the first time, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has admitted the harmful repercussions of abortion for society , at least in a particular context: “The United Nations have long been aware of this issue of prenatal sex selection, which is widespread in some Asian . . . . Continue Reading »

New Down Syndrome detection procedures will soon be introduced to the market, using only a sample of the mother’s blood, hopefully reducing the need for more dangerous, invasive tests. Researchers say that the new procedure is not reliable enough to replace the two more dangerous techniques . . . . Continue Reading »

Obama’s Faith-Based Office appointee, Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson, has recently written a rather striking piece for the Huffington Post, “ Should DOMA Dogma Be Law? ” Wilson fairly unloads her cartridge, implicating Timothy Dolan and the Catholic Church’s teaching on gay-marriage as . . . . Continue Reading »

Some incredible statements are made by members of Fort Lewis College’s outreach group “Advocates for Choice” at a debate about Colorado’s Amendment 62 , the “personhood amendment.”  Condemning the use of science to determine the beginning of human life, we . . . . Continue Reading »

James Atlas has written an interesting piece for the New York Times about an emerging category of youths in America’s upper echelon: Super People. Hailed as the Great Academic Leap Forward, the movement of which these young people are a part is populated by the hysterically competitive, . . . . Continue Reading »

In a case similar to the lawsuit filed against Microsoft for indirect support of the Family Research Council, Canada’s National Post has recently apologized for running an ad bought by the Institute for Canadian Values that questions Canada’s curriculum requiring young children from . . . . Continue Reading »