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Destruction of the Family

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October 2015

October 22, 2015

He’s Out! Bishop Laicizes Priest Who “Came Out” on Eve of Synod

My friend Kathy Schiffer has the story. Remember the high-ranking Vatican priest who chose the opening...

October 21, 2015

Nearly 500 British Priests Urge Synod to Stand Firm on Communion for Remarried

Nearly 500 British priests sent a letter to the Synod Fathers, urging them to stand...

October 14, 2015

PP Says They Will Stop Taking Money for Aborted Baby Body Parts. Do You Believe Them?

Planned Parenthood president, Cecile Richards, published a letter yesterday stating that Big Pink won't take...

October 12, 2015

Synod Leaders are “Log Rolling” Say Cardinals

A group of Synod Fathers, including Cardinal Dolan, have written a letter to Pope Francis...

October 01, 2015

It’s Synod Time Again. That Scares Me.

It's almost Synod time again. After last year's Synod on the Family, I almost wish...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

If We Don’t Fight for Life, This Hunger for Annihilation Will Devour Us All

  My near death experience with Mama pushed me to considering a nursing home. I wrote...

September 21, 2015

Left Wing Media Tries to Hijack Pope Francis for Its Secular Agenda

Redefining Francis to fit their political agenda is the new game of the left. It...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Don’t Go to Battle for Christ Before You Go to Spiritual Boot Camp

Make no mistake about it: The culture wars are going to get hot and hotter....

July 15, 2015

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Comes Out Against Gay Marriage

Just when I thought that there were no independent thinking heads of states left in...

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 04, 2015

Pope Francis: A Society That Does Not Take Care of the Elderly, Has No Future

The Church teaches us to love and care for the elderly, disabled, weak and helpless....

March 2015

March 23, 2015

America and Its Half Million Homeless Ghosts

They are not people to us. They are ghosts of what once was people like...

March 21, 2015

Church Turns to Congress for Relief from Attacks on Religious Freedom

The city of Washington, DC has passed two laws that directly attack religious freedom. The...

March 20, 2015

Purple Prose Aside, Oklahoma Did Not Limit Marriage to People of Faith

My former colleague, Representative Todd Russ, recently passed a piece of legislation, HB 1125 that...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

Pope Francis is Writing an Encyclical on the Environment, and Both Sides of the Political Spectrum are Sharpening their Knives

Copyright Thierry Ehrmann, Flickr Commons, used with permission. So, Pope Francis is going to write...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Haters Gonna Hate: Christian Ministers Forced to Perform Gay Marriage or Face Jail Time

  Photo Source: Catholic News Agency Remember the lies? Gay marriage would not lead to...

October 13, 2014

Dueling Bishops: The Synod in Their Own Words

I've put together a set of comments from the various cardinals about the on-going Synod...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Pope Francis: The Devil Hates Human Beings and Wants to Destroy Us

September 15, 2014

Three Cardinals — and I Don’t Mean Baseball Players — and Their Grand Slam of Confusion

I’m late to the party. But then, I often am. It takes me a while...

September 02, 2014

Christianity: The Religion of Life

  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Christians Attacking Christians is the Devil’s Handiwork.

  I read a book this weekend, Even Silence has an End, by Ingrid Betancourt....

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 21, 2014

The Catholic Bishops Aren’t ‘In Bed’ with President Obama. They’re In Court with Him.

    I hate it when I have to spend my good time sweeping up...

July 17, 2014

The Parent Makers … Orrrrr … The Handmaid’s Tale Redux

Did I say that the media promotes the creation/selling/buying of babies? Did I say that...

July 17, 2014

“An Unrelated Gestational Carrier.” The Real Handmaid’s Tale

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...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

The Pope is Catholic. Catholic Haters Hate That About Him.

Following Jesus without deviating will get you smeared every time. I think it’s a rule...

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