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November 2013

November 23, 2013

America’s Late-Term Abortion Capital. Why?

Albuquerque voters recently came out in support of late-term abortion in all its grizzly inhumanity....

November 21, 2013

Book Review: Sex and the Vision Thing

To join the conversation on Sex and the Single Christian Girl, or to order a...

November 20, 2013

Supreme Court Decides Not to Rule on Texas Pro Life Law (For Now)

The United States Supreme Court has decided not to intervene in the Texas pro...

November 16, 2013

Trading on the Female Body

What do you call doctors who run ads in college newspapers, on Facebook, etc,...

November 15, 2013

China Changes One-Child Policy. It’s Two Children Now.

It’s a step in the right direction. China has announced that it will “ease”...

November 14, 2013

Is It Possible to Have Individual Freedom of Conscience and Gay Marriage?

The debate is boiling down to a wall-punching, head-butting disaster. On the one side,...

November 13, 2013

Blumenthal Announces Bill to Overturn State Abortion Laws

A small group of members of the United States Congress announced plans today to...

November 12, 2013

Dolan: Christian Persecution is “a Humanitarian Catastrophe’

God love Cardinal Timothy Dolan. He took the podium at the annual fall assembly...

November 12, 2013

Oklahoma Supreme Court Does It Again

Oklahoma’s Supreme Court overturned a second pro life bill this week. This one concerned trans-vaginal...

November 05, 2013

Computer-Generated ‘Sweetie’ Snares Online Predators

An on-line sting set up by Dutch charity Terre des Hommes, identified 1000 predators trying...

November 04, 2013

Supremes Dump Oklahoma Court Case and I Am Bummed About It

There are times when I get up and walk off the House floor. I...

November 03, 2013

I Was Dead

Killing baby girls in the name of women's rights is an obscenity. Stop Sex...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Because I am a Girl

I've put together a few videos about the price half the human race pays every...

October 26, 2013

Sex Selected Abortions in Britain: What Does the CPS Decision Mean?

As an American, I find British law confusing, which, I expect is equally true...

October 25, 2013

UK Legalizes Sex Selected Abortions

It began -- at least for me -- when Public Catholic reader Manny shared...

October 17, 2013

Doctor Urged John Paul II’s Mother to Abort Him

We owe a great deal to Emilia Kaczorowska. Emilia Kaczorowska is the mother of...

October 14, 2013

Australia: Doctor Could Lose His License for Refusing to do Sex-Selected Abortion

How do you define inconsistent? Pro abortion people fought a bill we passed here in Oklahoma...

October 13, 2013

It’s About Self-Respect

Trollop fashions are the antithesis of self-respect for young girls. It's particularly significant that we...

October 12, 2013

Divorce, Catholic Divorce and Following Christ as Counter-Cultural Living

Divorce is one of the plagues of modern America. It is the root cause of...

October 12, 2013

When Home is Hell

Comments on this post about divorce have, as these things usually do, veered off into...

October 12, 2013

Pope Francis and the Role of Women in the Church

Pope Francis made a few comments today on one of my favorite topics: The role...

October 07, 2013

Culture of Death News

Buckle your seat belts. The list below contains a few headlines from the culture of...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Real Feminism Begins at Home

This video addresses what I've long believed is the forgotten core need of women: the...

September 27, 2013

Christian Persecution: What Can We Do?

Elizabeth Scalia has heard the call. Have you? I'm talking about the call to prayer...

September 27, 2013

Bogus Scholarship and the High Fashion of Attacking Christ the Lord

The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Reza Aslan, the Muslim writer-about-Jesus. I'm not...

September 26, 2013

Doing Good

I've talked quite a bit about people who -- without being aware of it...

September 22, 2013

Planned Parenthood: No Matter What

This enlightening video is from Students for Life.

September 20, 2013

The Most Interesting Thing About Pope Francis’ Interview

The most interesting thing about Pope Francis' interview with America magazine is not the interview...

September 18, 2013

Albuquerque Puts Vote on Municipal Abortion Ban on November Ballot

Albuquerque became the first city to put a ban on late-term abortions on the ballot...

September 15, 2013

European Petition to Protect Life Garners 1 Million Signatures

Defending the sanctity of human life is a worldwide struggle, with as many venues as...