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February 2020

February 24, 2020

Be Pro Family. Help Young Couples Pay for Childcare.

Bernie Sanders has come out with an expensive but absolutely necessary 1.5 trillion child care...

June 2018

June 08, 2018

It Takes Disastrously Crazy Thinking to Commit Suicide and Leave a Child Behind

Fashion designer Kate Spade and chef Anthony Bourdain committed suicide this week. Both of them...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Ok Senator Ralph Shortey to Plead Guilty to Child Sex Trafficking

One of my former colleagues, Senator Ralph Shortey, is going to plead guilty to child...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

Pro Life Women Join the Women’s Marches

Pro Life women marched alongside others in the Women's March Saturday. I personally know pro...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

What Do You Put on the Altar of Your Heart?

Pro life people must not confine their pro life thinking to the tiny intellectual boxes...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Maybe the Boy Scouts Should Hold Pack Meetings in Gay Bars

Well, they did it. Remember a while back when the Boy Scouts of America voted...

July 10, 2015

Oregon Allows 15-Year-Olds to Get Sex Change Operations without Parental Consent

This story of politically correct excess speaks for itself. Oregon is now allowing children as...

July 06, 2015

10 Things You can Do to Save Your Family and Change the World

I'm going to launch into the political ramifications of the Supreme Court Decision destroying marriage...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

The Supremes Decision Enshrines Cultural Nihilism in the Constitution.

Today, the United States Supreme Court ended marriage as a stable legal institution in the...

June 03, 2015

Sex Change Surgery is the New Pre-Frontal Lobotomy, and a Trendy Form of Child Abuse

What do prefrontal lobotomy and sex change surgery have in common from a scientific viewpoint?...

June 03, 2015

Sex Change Surgery is the New Prefrontal Lobotomy and a Trendy Form of Child Mutilation

What do prefrontal lobotomy and sex change surgery have in common from a scientific viewpoint?...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

What New Dads Do

Real men love their kids. My life has been blessed by two wonderful real men:...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

Pope Francis: Without Fathers Young People Feel Orphaned

We have a nation of children who feel orphaned because their fathers are not in...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

Maternity as a Masters

Is motherhood equal to a master's degree? I think it's much greater than that. Employers...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

The Family Drug Addict and Thanksgiving

I don’t know what it is about the holidays. All I know is that...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Voice of the Child of Divorce

Powerful and true.

October 29, 2014

Raising Kids with a Super Spiritual Foundation

October 28, 2014

The Word Exposed: The Christian Family

October 15, 2014

6 Things I Hope the Synod on the Family Does That It Doesn’t Seem to be Doing Now

I had high hopes for the Synod on the Family. I had hope that it...

September 2014

September 04, 2014

Five Top Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids

It’s school time again. What this meant to me as a homeschooling mom was organizing...

September 02, 2014

ADULTS ONLY for This One: Rape is Hilarious

I have nothing to add to this. The video speaks for itself.

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Home and Family are Not Outmoded. They are Eternal Truths on Which People are Built.

A long time ago in a land not so far away, married couples often...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

Planned Parenthood, Teaching Sexual Fetishism and Other Perversions to Kids

Watch the videos below and consider this: Our government puts $542 million into Planned...

July 17, 2014

Margaret Atwood wrote a gripping novel back in 1985 called The Handmaid’s Tale. The main...

July 14, 2014

Kids Who Won’t Mind. What’s Wrong with this Picture?

I’m under the weather today, so I’ve spent the afternoon watching the Spielberg version of...

July 10, 2014

Book Review: If Daddy is a Cipher, Who is God the Father?

To join the conversation about How the West Really Lost God, a New Theory of...

July 02, 2014

Family: I am Sister Lily’s Granddaughter. Where I’m From, that Counts for a Lot.

I don’t remember if I told you this, but my grandmother was a Pentecostal...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Guns. Blaming Father Terra for Trying to Defend Himself. And Raising Up Psychopaths.

I’m proud of you. Public Catholic readers have not gone off the deep end, blaming...

June 17, 2014

Congresswoman Pelosi’s Letter to Archbishop Cordileone is Not a Letter. It’s Politics.

Let’s make something clear at the outset. When you send a letter to someone...

June 14, 2014

Where I’m From, We Call Our Fathers Daddy

This is a re-run of a post I wrote about my Daddy. Happy Father's Day...