Regular Contributions
Humanae Vitae Was Right!
A new book by Helen Alvaré pulls back the curtain on the contraceptive mentality and its foul fruits. Breaking Through honestly addresses realities that the sex-saturated seculars miss, or mock: obedience to God’s marvelous design for marriage brings Grace, harmony, and peace to a world that hungers for them.
The “Catholic Vote” and Other Myths
Charles Molineaux, longtime friend of the Forum, analyzes the “Catholic vote,” the rise of secularism, and the lingering scourge of clericalism in an important article for Crisis Magazine. Excerpts: “Since the presumed high water mark of the Kennedy election,” Molineaux writes, “the seeming solidity of Catholic laity has been dissipated by several factors, principally three: …
Sucha Flake Has Curious Reception at Georgetown
It goes to show how far we’ve “progressed” that a student at a “Catholic” institution becomes celebrated there for advocating rampant promiscuity.
Creating a Civics Course
This year I have the pleasure and honor of teaching a Civics course to a group of high school seniors at Saint Agnes School in St. Paul, MN. I suspect that most Civics courses around the country are taught in a way that overemphasizes modern political attitudes and delivers very little about what it means to…
Father CJ Reviews “Adam and Eve After the Pill”
Fr. C. J. McCloskey delivers in a rave review of Mary Eberstadt’s terrific book that documents the damage done to the culture by the rejection of Humanae Vitae. Social science now proves what Pope Paul VI predicted — now many non-Catholics and even non-Christians agree, as her painstaking research reveals. By the way — have…
Helen Gurley Brown — With A Twist
Dawn Eden has an interesting piece on the Cosmo Girl’s decadence, and a curious and hopeful turn at the end of her life. On a societal level, the fallout from the Cosmo philosophy helped turn modern Western society into what John Paul II described in his “Letter to Families” as a “culture of use,” where…
Bravo Bishops!
Bishop Paul S. Loverde, of Arlington Virginia,recognizes with Pope Benedict XVI that in recent years Catholics have often been poorly catechized. So in his diocesan newspaper this week he explains his recent decision “to have all of the diocese’s catechists and teachers of religious education make a public Profession of Faith” — a decision which…
Where Is Catholic Charities USA?
The usual suspects are mocking pro-lifers mercilessly because an obscure politician garbled a sentence in a TV interview (so that’s news??!!). Yet the issue has now been raised — what will become of the children of women who are raped? Why shouldn’t they be aborted? Apart from all the other back-and-forth, why haven’t the bishops,…
We Have No King But Caesar
“Fundamental rights” seems to be a preoccupation with Americans and, increasingly, people all over the world. Sometimes the adjective “fundamental” is not appended to the term “rights,” but there is a preoccupation all the same. When asked to define in general what a “right” is, I’m not sure that those who wish to secure such for themselves…
HOLY COW! Something Apocryphal — Russian Patriarch to Visit Poland Day after Dormition
Hitting the news today is the report that Russian Patriarch Kiril I is visiting Poland this Thursday. Reporting the story on the Russian Orthodox side is Prawoslawie: The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus, Kirill I will come to Poland on Thursday on a visit which raises…
