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April 2014

April 30, 2014

Oklahoma Stops Botched Execution. Inmate Dies Anyway.

Oklahoma seems to be having trouble executing people. First, attorneys for death row inmates...

April 23, 2014

How to Join Crowdfunding of Gosnell Movie

Film makers are asking individuals to contribute so that they can make a movie...

April 23, 2014

So … I Starved My Granddaughter to Death and Now I’m Campaigning to Let Other People Kill Their Kids Faster

The latest salvo in the push for legalizing euthanasia is to kill kids. What...

April 15, 2014

Holy Week: Pope Francis’ Reflections for Way of the Cross

Pope Francis' reflections for the Way of the Cross aren't going to please people who...

April 12, 2014

We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bus

The chickens are coming flapping home. And it turns out that these chickens walk...

April 11, 2014

It’s Getting Awful Crowded Under that Bus. Another Catholic School Apologizes for a Speaker Teaching Catholic Morality

It’s getting awful crowded under that bus. Another Catholic high school has apologized to...

April 11, 2014

ABC News Apologizes after ‘Inadvertently’ Conflating Ex-Mozilla CEO with Westboro Baptist Church

Do you believe this was “inadvertent?" ABC News evidently ran a video of Westboro...

April 10, 2014

Maybe the Only Honorable Place for a Catholic to be is Under the Bus

Fear God, and you will have no need of being afraid of mortal man....

April 09, 2014

Bishop Jugis Issues Long-Delayed Statement About Sister Jane. Says Nothing. Sister Still Under the Bus.

Bishop Peter Jugis has finally issued his long-awaited statement concerning the trashing of Sister...

April 09, 2014

Euthanasia: Putting You Out of My Misery

Recent arguments about euthanizing children, those with dementia and healthy adults pulled the mask...

April 08, 2014

Dr Alveda King, Niece of Martin Luther King, for Marriage

I was honored to meet Dr Alveda King when she was in Oklahoma for...

April 07, 2014

Mozilla Faces Negative Reaction to CEO Ouster

Are we facing a new kind of McCarthyism that is run by mobs? ...

April 06, 2014

Okies Chase Westboro Baptist Church Out of Town

The idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, “shagged tail, got in them cars and was...

April 05, 2014

I Wish I had a Dime …

I wish I had a dime for every time someone has maliciously lied about me...

April 04, 2014

Sister Jane, Cowardly Clergy and Martin Niemoller Moments

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I...

April 04, 2014

Resisting the New Blacklist

There’s a new blacklist. Its members are anyone who dares to oppose gay marriage,...

April 03, 2014

Mozilla CEO Steps Down Over Donating $1,000 for Prop 8

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned from his position with Mozilla. He also resigned from his...

April 02, 2014

San Franciso Archbishop: Dissenters and Those Living in Mortal Sin Must Repent and Confess Before Taking Communion

The Church's teaching on worthiness to receive communion goes all the way back to St...

April 01, 2014

The CIA Lied to Congress Repeatedly About the Use of Torture

The CIA lied to Congress and the American people about the brutal interrogation methods...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Georgetown University Students Hold “Choice Week” to Promote Abortion

Since we live in a world where the holy is us, and the moral...

March 27, 2014

Is Religious Freedom Threatened? Duhhh … Is This a Trick Question?

When the roll is called down yonder, we'll all line up according to our...

March 26, 2014

World Vision Switches Tracks. Says They Won’t Hire Gay Marrieds. Can Their Supporters Trust Them After This?

It’s been an interesting 24 hours for the folks at World Vision. Franklin Graham...

March 26, 2014

All Catholics are Obliged to Oppose the Legal Recognition of Homosexual Unions

I put together a quick collage of teachings on marriage from Scripture, the Catechism...

March 25, 2014

Franklin Graham and World Vision in a World of Changing Gods

World Vision, which is an evangelical Christian organization, has evidently decided to hire “married”...

March 25, 2014

Voris Doesn’t Disrespect the Pope, Either

I recently posted a statement that if you want to disrespect the Pope, you...

March 24, 2014

Teaching Us to Drink Hemlock Kool-Aid

This is a casual grouping of You Tube videos demonstrating the push to normalize both...

March 24, 2014

Bodies of Aborted Babies Incinerated to Heat UK Hospitals

And you shall not let any of your children pass through the fire to...

March 22, 2014

Pope to Mafia: Convert, Hell Awaits You if You Continue on This Road

The first godfather movie was something of a watershed in American culture. It wasn’t the...

March 21, 2014

What is Bill Maher’s Problem?

What is Bill Maher's problem? Kevin Sorbo, the star of God is Not Dead, responded...

March 20, 2014

Did We Really Need a Bishop to Tell us that Verbally Sliming Other People is a Grave Sin?

Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, evidently felt that the people in the pews (not...