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July 2015

July 30, 2015

Pro-Lifers Should Offer Help and Hope Along with Undercover Videos

Many Americans call themselves pro-choice, but are uncomfortable with unlimited abortion on demand, and these videos...

July 28, 2015

A simple reminder: Pray for police

Every siren should be a reminder that someone is in trouble -- a victim, a perpetrator,...

July 23, 2015

What can American parents learn from a doll?

In wealthy, progressive Seattle, polio vaccination rates are lower than in Rwanda. Parents...

July 21, 2015

Great news for Los Angeles (and prayers for Uncle Joe)

The Pope has appointed three new auxiliary bishops to serve in the massive archdiocese...

July 14, 2015

Watch Planned Parenthood Arranging to Sell Fetal Livers, Brains, and Hearts Over Lunch

It helps to know which organs you are hoping to retrieve, Nucatola explains: So then...

July 07, 2015

10 Ways to Insult a Catholic Blogger (and Why You Shouldn’t Bother)

1. You're just trying to get attention with this! Oh gosh-all-whillikers, not attention! You mean that...

July 02, 2015

In defense of deploring poor taste

You should know that terrible times have a sifting effect, letting the truly important human experiences...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

Knock knock! Who’s there? A Catholic.

As an evangelist, I'm laboring under a triple whammy: I'm a New Englander, I'm shy, and I'm a...

June 23, 2015

Has Etsy banned the sale of sacramentals?

To a casual onlooker, it really does seem like Catholics believe that if you die...

June 18, 2015

Should you read Laudato Si? A quiz

Laudato Si is here, and not a moment too soon. Any day now, all the pundits...

June 16, 2015

Those unsophisticated Catholics just exorcised the entire country of Mexico.

He was speaking about being too guarded against inexplicable wonders, being so sophisticated that we...

June 11, 2015

Does it matter if Medjugorje is real or not?

I would say that Mary, my mother in heaven who knows me and loves me,...

June 10, 2015

In which I nag you to buy life insurance

I really hate it when people say, “You have no business having children if you...

June 09, 2015

In which I nag you to buy life insurance

I really hate it when people say, "You have no business having children if you...

June 02, 2015

Yes, Agenda-Driven Infiltrators Are Hijacking the World Meeting of Families

Folks like the one-man band at the Lepanto Institute are introducing a gay agenda into...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Gee, your corpse smells terrific!

Not only does the Catholic Church "do science," but she allows us a heck of...

May 26, 2015

When Hell has a hashtag

The BBC says, "if you believe in that sort of thing" because it does sound...

May 21, 2015

Only a rightly-ordered heart feels grief

e know some couples who don't fight very much, but they don't seem...

May 19, 2015

A little fish can go a long way!

He had to rethink his strategy. A good idea is only a good idea if...

May 14, 2015

Columbia Students Lay Siege to Themselves

So here's what I say to the Columbia students clutching their carefully cultivated pearls as they face...

May 07, 2015

Love in Action: Shoes that Grow

But what if you can't buy a new pair of shoes for your growing child?...

May 05, 2015

But it’s not my job!

Any normal person, when faced with a heap of excrement like this, would go get...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Carve Out Time for These Few Essentials

You'll also find regular exercise gives you more energy to do something that is absolutely...

April 28, 2015

We’ve tried nothing, Lord.

That's the problem: it's complicated. Maybe too complicated for any administrative fiat or change in...

April 23, 2015

Archbishop Joseph Naumann Replaces Finn, Signalling Change in Missouri Diocese

Finn may not have been aware of Ratigan's actions, but he should have been. There...

April 21, 2015

Worth another look: Joe Versus the Volcano

“Dear god, whose name I do not know, Thank you for my life. I forgot......

April 16, 2015

Love isn’t supposed to be efficient.

Jesus died for everybody, true. But He also died for each of us, specifically, individually,...

April 14, 2015

Ten pleasures that Gwyneth Paltrow will never know

2. The invisible, celebratory fireworks that explode in your head when the credit card machine...

April 07, 2015

I don’t know nothin’ about raisin’ no babies, apparently.

That's not a naked bottom. That's a grenade, and you are its next victim unless...

April 02, 2015

Grace is free, but not all fees are simony

The expense of obtaining a decree of nullity makes it difficult for some people to...