Nancy Pelosi deserves to be taken seriously. Very seriously...
In March 2010, I expressed the view that Nancy Pelosi’s protracted and public anti-life conduct, which she repeatedly justifies with (twisted takes on) the Catholic faith, sufficed, in my view, to bring about her debarment from the reception of holy Communion under Canon 915.
The Obama administration's contraceptive mandate evokes bitter memories of past persecution...
Picking up the Broadsword...
It was only in 1991 that the truth sank in to me: I am probably not going to die in a nuclear war. It’s conceivable I might have grandchildren. The magnificent City of New York, from the stained glass of St. Vincent Ferrer to the Art Deco gargoyles of the Chrysler Building, would not certainly be melted in fire hot as the surface of the sun...
Nancy Pelosi: "I am going to stick with fellow Catholics" by supporting Obama in his war on Catholics. Wherein Fr. Z rants...
Nancy Pelosi, an open abortion absolutist, is from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, but she spends most of her time in Washington DC. She has at least quasi-domicile in the Archdiocese of Washington DC. She is Archbishop Niederauer’s and Cardinal Wuerl’s subject it seems, and yet – year after year – she...
Pennsylvania's Shippensburg University stocks vending machine with lethal Plan B abortion pills...
Talk about a sign of the times. Shippensburg University, in Pennsylvania is now dispensing the morning after pill from a vending machine. The school official says it is for "privacy" and that they dispense between 350-400 doses a year.
Who Wants War With Iran?
Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: “We don’t believe they’ve actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon.” Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports...
Who Was and Is and Is to Come...
Are football fans more devoted than Christian disciples?
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Permanent Preventative Care?
We're reminded that the White House wants to ensure that all women receive the necessary "preventative care". Why not give the unborn children the "Preventative Care" they need to preserve their lives? What on earth does "Preventative Care" mean? Why it means contraceptives of course, and once that's accepted and everyone yawns and says its okay after all...
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It was his stubble, more than anything, that drew me to St. Thomas More when I was young...
I had seen the film version of Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for All Seasons, and I enjoyed it. You are a bad fellow if you don’t like Paul Scofield as More. When I was in college and studied Tudor history, I read the play and Utopia and William Roper’s Life and much more.
10 tips on how to behave at Mass...
In which I dissent from Fr. Z and his readers...
One of the things that has come to deeply concern me about the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism is the way in which it has bought into the identity politics which used to dominate (and make stupid) the left thirty years ago. What matters is tribal affiliation. The search is not for converts, but for heretics.
Are you training for Heaven or for Hell?
A couple of guys were chatting as they waited for their sons’ turns at Supercut. I was waiting, too, and tuned them out until I heard one say enthusiastically, “Hey, there’s a new place over on Water Street that does prostate!” “Awesome!” crowed the other. “I’m really into prostate...
How Are Things At Work?
I’ve asked this question of friends countless times, usually with a sympathetic grin. It’s a question that acknowledges the fact that work is fraught with difficulties. Perhaps an ongoing disagreement with the boss or a coworker. Insufficient hours in the workday. Fear of being downsized. The tough part about work often isn’t the work itself.
Support for Sant'Egidio, and another plum for Archbishop Dolan...
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Saving the Part of Yourself That Matters Most...
How far would you go to get revenge on someone who hurt a person you loved? That’s the question at the heart of a 2011 episode of the CBS series, “Person of Interest” titled “Cura Te Ipsum,” a Latin saying which translates to “Heal thyself.” In case you’re not familiar with “Person of Interest’s” premise...
Do you know where the saying "God helps those who help themselves" comes from?
Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac quotes it, and an English politician named Algernon Sydney (d. 1683) is said to have also proclaimed it in slightly different wording. But neither man was responsible for originating this idea. Actually, the ancient Greeks appear to have coined the phrase. Interestingly...
Can a pregnant woman be anointed on behalf of her dying unborn child?
Today, I wish to consider the particular question of anointing a pregnant woman on behalf of her unborn child who is in danger of death – there are several reasons why such an anointing would be a sacrilege and invalid, though (of course) we would not assign any fault to the woman but rather to the priest.
Vatican abuse summit: Expert blasts denial on global dimension of crisis...
One of America’s leading experts on the Catholic abuse crisis effectively told church leaders from different parts of the world today that if they think sexual abuse is not a problem in their neighborhood, they’re kidding themselves. “Church leaders around the world began by saying, ‘This is only an American problem’...
This might seem a strange thing for a Catholic to say, but I often think that the Queen is the most impressive religious leader in Britain...
She says little in public about her Christianity, but what she does say – usually at the end of her Christmas Day broadcast – is powerful in its directness. Having discussed the celebrations, tragedies and anxieties of the past year, the Queen affirms, naturally but unflinchingly and with no attempt at religious relativism, her faith in Jesus Christ.
A brilliant reign: Queen Elizabeth II at 60 remarkable years on the throne...
