Agenzia Fides , the Vatican’s missionary press agency, has published the names of Catholics killed while on mission in 2009. According to the report, 30 priests, 2 religious sisters, 2 seminarians, and 3 lay volunteers were killed last year—nearly twice the number killed in 2008. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic World News reports that Fr. Michael Kelly, S.J. the CEO of the Asian Catholic News agency, finds the Catholic doctrine of “transubstantiation” meaningless in this “post-Newtonian world of quantum physics”. Since I use quantum mechanics every day in my work, I think I . . . . Continue Reading »
This YouTube is very worth watching. And please note that were this man suicidal rather than empowered, the assisted suicide movement would gladly give him the pills and call it compassionate. Let us be attentive!HT: Bobby . . . . Continue Reading »
A classic example of what happens when government chooses the winners and . . . . Continue Reading »
I want to thank Wheaton College , out here in Illinois, for inviting me to give this year’s commencement address. I recognize that, as a practicing Catholic, I was a difficult choice for the school to make—since Wheaton College is, after all, the school so well featured in the movie . . . . Continue Reading »
In response to the Rhetoric Society of America’s inquiry – what are Pope Benedict’s reasons for positioning the Catholic Church as an essential link between enterprise and justice, and as a significant voice in the public discussion of globalization – I suggest a “spiritual . . . . Continue Reading »
Massachusetts’ experiment with a form of Obamacare is failing, with the state’s insurance companies in terrible financial trouble because of the heavy hand of politicized premium regulation. From the story:The four major Massachusetts health insurers yesterday posted first-quarter losses . . . . Continue Reading »
Barack Hussein Obubble: the moniker fits, now that the grand Keynesian scheme of refloating the world economy on a tide of government debt has come undone. Global stock markets fell 3 percent to 4 percent overnight because American incompetence and American weakness have combined to make the world . . . . Continue Reading »
His report card indicates he’s a “pleasure to have in class,” but ninth-grader Jason Laguna was recently suspended from his high school in Haverstraw, New York for insubordination and endangering the “safety, health, morals or welfare of himself or others.” His offense? A . . . . Continue Reading »
In Storm Clouds in Ukraine , today’s “On the Square” article, George Weigel warns of what he calls “an exercise in hardball politics under the veil of public piety that was, in fact, a harbinger of danger for religious freedom, for Ukrainian democracy, and for the future of . . . . Continue Reading »
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