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April 2013

April 22, 2013

Nearly 15,000 French Mayors Say They Will Refuse to Marry Gay Couples

It seems to me that there is a wee bit of resistance to French President...

April 22, 2013

Gay Marriage and Politicians Going In Your Face With the People Who Elected Them

When a government starts changing the date for votes to avoid its own people, something...

April 20, 2013

Boy Scouts Leadership Pushes Revised Plan Allowing Homosexual Members

Boy Scouts of America's executive committee produced yet another attempt to change the organizations...

April 17, 2013

Book Review: Blessed, Beautiful and Bodacious. Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood

To join the discussion about Blessed, Beautiful and Bodacious, Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood...

April 16, 2013

Trendy Jesus, Gonzaga, and MIssion Drift in Catholic Universities

Catholic education cannot be Catholic unless it is also faithful to the Church and its...

April 07, 2013

Catholic Teaching on Marriage: The Good of Families is About the Good of Society

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is the of San Francisco is chairman of the US Bishops' Subcommittee...

April 07, 2013

The Politically Incorrect Steve Jobs on Public Education

American has a two-tier public education system. It works likes this. Those who live in...

April 04, 2013

Pope Francis: Mothers, go forth with this witness to the living Christ!

Pope Francis reached out to women in a powerful way during Holy Week. First, there...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Supreme Court Questions Whether Marriage is a Federal Issue

What the Court says in questions does not necessarily reflect how they will rule. However,...

March 22, 2013

Does Raising Boys to be Manly Christian Men Require Discriminating Against Girls?

I was jittery before I published Women and the Church yesterday. I was afraid that,...

March 16, 2013

March for Marriage 3/26/13

Go if you can!

February 2013

February 10, 2013

Lent: Repentance, Divorce and Your Children

Lent begins this Wednesday. It's difficult in our over-scheduled world to reflect. On anything. It...

February 07, 2013

What Causes Homosexuality?

A recent discussion in one of this blog's comboxes veered off into the old nature-or-nurture

February 06, 2013

Boy Scouts Delay Decision About Gay Leaders

The Boy Scouts walked to the edge of the cliff and backed off. They delayed...

February 06, 2013

Marriage is Dying Because We are Killing It

A million-strong march in support of traditional marriage that took place in Paris a few weeks...

February 06, 2013

Britain’s House of Commons Passes Gay Marriage by Big Margin

Britain's House of Commons passed gay marriage with a vote of 400-175 Tuesday with predictions...

February 05, 2013

Do Easy Annulments Degrade the Value of Marriage? The Pope Says Yes.

Some people call it the "Catholic Divorce." It is often treated as a pro forma...

February 03, 2013

President Obama Supports Boy Scouts of America Allowing Gay Scout Leaders

President Obama gave his support to recent moves by the Boys Scouts of America to...

February 01, 2013

Book Review: The World Needs Quiet People, Too

To join the discussion about Quiet, or to buy a copy, go here. I am...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

Is the Male/Female Sexual Difference Key to Understanding Marriage?

Is the male/female sexual difference key to understanding marriage? Not so long ago, that question...

January 19, 2013

Lila Rose, Live Action Founder, Describes Her Call and Vocation

“We’re not meant to be passive people of faith, we’re meant to use our gifts...

January 19, 2013

Parents Petition to Take Over Failing School

Parents in Los Angeles have petitioned to take over a "failing" school. Evidently, California has...

January 13, 2013

Vocation: Whatever You Do, Do It For the Lord and Don’t Worry About the Consequences

Today is the beginning of Vocations week. Many people have a particular vocation. Some...

January 12, 2013

Is Normalizing Pedophilia the Next Amoral Social Movement?

Father Dwight Longenecker, who blogs at Standing on My Head, wrote a duzzy of a...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Be a Dad

It never occurred to me to put a wish for a Daddy on my Christmas...

December 23, 2012

Christmas in Dullsville and Testosterone Explosions in My Kitchen

I never told you what happened Thanksgiving. I gave you the run-up on our family holiday,...

December 19, 2012

Finding Normal

It's still Advent. Christmas is right around the corner. We have to pull ourselves out...

December 17, 2012

The best of us …

December 12, 2012

Education or Indoctrination: Elementary School Teaches Gender Diversity

I'm sure that posting this will get me called a few names, but it's far...

December 11, 2012

Why Does Marriage Matter?

Getting married was one of the four best things I've ever done. The other three...