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2015-11-06T11:26:57-07:00

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Faithful Catholic Politicians Need Our Prayers and Support

Last updated on: November 6, 2015 at 11:26 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Kimberly Hahn, wife of prolific Catholic apologist Scott Hahn, got herself elected to an at large position on the Steubenville city council this week. We need strong Christians in public office, as well as every other endeavor. I wrote a post about Mrs Hahn’s victory and what it means to get elected office for the National Catholic Register. Here’s part of what I said: America reinvents itself every election. What’s so great about this, is that ordinary people like you... Read more

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2015-11-06T04:44:04-07:00

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Misogyny 1, Girl Athletes 0. Where are the Feminists?

Last updated on: November 6, 2015 at 4:44 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Where have all the feminists gone? It appears they’ve gone to political correctness, save for one. I wrote a post for CatholicVote discussing the recent ruling by the Department of Education that girls who participate in sports in the Palatine, Il school district must pay for this privilege by showering with boys. That’s a small simplification, but only a small one. The boys in question are young men who claim that they think they are women. These young men then... Read more

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2015-10-31T08:44:32-06:00

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What is All Souls Day?

Last updated on: October 31, 2015 at 8:44 am By Rebecca Hamilton

2015-10-31T08:32:45-06:00

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What is All Saint’s Day?

Last updated on: October 31, 2015 at 8:32 am By Rebecca Hamilton

2015-10-30T11:43:53-06:00

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So, What Do These Polls of Presidential Candidates Mean in Real Life?

Last updated on: October 30, 2015 at 11:43 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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I haven’t written about the obsessive early polling of presidential candidates for one simple reason: I think it’s ridiculous. Asking voters a year or more out from an election who they will vote for is like asking a 12-year-old girl to describe her future husband. What you will get in either case is a dream scenario that does not resemble what will actually happen when things get real. I also think that debates this far out are, in a word,... Read more

2015-10-29T12:23:50-06:00

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If Douthat’s Critics Disagree with Him, They Should Say Why, Not Try to Get Him Fired

Last updated on: October 29, 2015 at 12:23 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Ross Douthat write op-ed posts for the New York Times. He recently wrote a post that contained opinions that inflamed certain members of the administration and faculties of more than one prominent Catholic university. Instead of making their own case for what they believed, these folks sent a letter to the New York Times that certainly sounds as if they want the newspaper to fire Mr Douthat for his wrong thinking. I wrote a post about this nonsense for the... Read more

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2015-10-28T14:26:07-06:00

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Gay Activists Demand Secular, Non-Irish St Patrick’s Day Parade

Last updated on: October 28, 2015 at 2:26 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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This is unfathomable on the basis of discrimination or any of the other claims that have been made concerning this parade. It is, to use a word I frequently apply to today’s cultural deconstruction, nihilism. From Crisis Magazine: Twenty-five years ago, a small group of activists charged the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade with being a public gesture of pure homophobia. They built their case around the allegedly bigoted “Catholic character.” The trial was held before the judges of... Read more

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2015-10-28T13:23:22-06:00

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The Bishop Must Stand. If the Bishop Fails, All the People Will Run Away

Last updated on: October 28, 2015 at 1:23 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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The Synod on the Family has finally adjourned, leaving behind a document for us to read and ponder. In many ways, this Synod, like the one last year, ended up resembling the United States Congress. Here are a few of those ways. 1. Most of what they talked about doing was so disturbing that the people in the pews breathed a sigh of relief that, in the end, they did nothing. People were praying, saying their rosaries, signing petitions and... Read more

2015-10-24T09:47:01-06:00

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Persecution, not Divorced and Remarrieds, is the Most Serious Issue Facing Christianity Today

Last updated on: October 24, 2015 at 9:47 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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My colleague Kate O’Hare interviewed Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mar Bahai Soro about the holocaust of Christians that is taking place in the Middle East. To be honest, reading this interview put the hijinks of the Synod on the Family in perspective. It made the whole thing seem a little bit like an exercise in rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It would have been better to hold a Synod on Christian persecution in much of the world, coupled as it... Read more

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2015-10-23T15:09:23-06:00

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Fr Dwight: Blowing the Whistle on Liberal Hypocrites

Last updated on: October 23, 2015 at 3:09 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Father Dwight Longenecker went on a rant, and it was too true. The only thing I would add is that there are a bushel and a peck of conservative hypocrites to sit on the shelf alongside the liberals. But that is another post, one which I need to write. Here’s part of what Father Dwight said: The attack on hypocrites in religion typically focusses on the uptight, self righteous conservative Catholic who judges others while they themselves are guilty of the... Read more

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