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Memory Eternal, Penny Lord
There’s some people you meet who you just can’t forget. Years ago, I was delighted to make acquaintance with Bob and Penny Lord. Bob and Penny have had fun documenting a lot of saints around the world and bringing these first hand experiences to people through their books and videos. You have to smile with…
The Four Cardinals: Unambiguously Pro-Life
40 years ago, the Four Cardinals of the United States testified before Congress in a show of conviction and principle that has been one of the clearest expressions of the Church’s teaching on the dignity of human life in our history. The truth that an unborn child is a human person from the moment of conception…
Cincinnati’s Curious Masonic Church
Cincinnati has long appeared to have a revolving door between the Masonic lodges and the Catholic Church. Having grown up there, I can recall discussions of various people who were both in Knights of Columbus and Masons, and rumors of parishes that were pagan experiments. People talk, and that sort of talk happened way before blogging. In…
Two Grand Old Men of the Church
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From Under the Rubble…How Many Holocausts?
On January 22nd, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators will take part in the forty first annual March for Life in Washington. They will be dutifully ignored by Big Media (well, the Post might send an intern), but it’s clear that the City of Man wishes they would go away. They won’t. And while their very…
“Bolshevizing” the Church: Your Catholic Campaign for Human Development Dollars at work
Educator Paulo Freire – who was deeply influenced by the socialist Antonio Gramsci(1) – came to the United States in the late 1960s after he was exiled from Brazil for “bolshevizing the country.” (2) In the U.S., he spread his educational theories to many of the era’s foremost progressive activists, among them Saul Alinsky, and…
Burke: THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE TO SCANDAL
Address given at the Milwaukee Wanderer Forum, December 6-7, 2002 Co-sponsored by the St. Gregory VII Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith Wanderer Forum Foundation, & Living Catholic Seminars By [then] Bishop [today] His Eminence Raymond Burke [then] Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin Introduction What has happened in the last eleven months in the…
What Has the Pro-Life Movement Accomplished Since 1973?
By John Jansen In the opening scene of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, we see Our Lord enduring the Agony in the Garden, and the devil telling Him, “No one man can carry this burden… It is far too heavy. Saving their souls is too costly.” Working in the pro-life movement, we often…
Save the Date!
Our very own Chris Manion, Director of the Campaign for Humanae Vitae, will be speaking at this important conference:
The Value of Preaching to the Choir
By Dale Ahlquist I went to a very secular liberal arts college. Like most secular liberal arts colleges, it had been founded by a church. Its church affiliation had long since ended, but it still had a beautiful, Gothic-style chapel in the center of campus. The other remnant of its religious past was that there…