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June 2015

June 01, 2015

America Embraces Era of Religious Persecution

The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

Reactive Political Expediency Before a Papal Encyclical

By Russell Shaw Not long after St. John XXIII’s social encyclical Mater et Magistra made...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

Yes, the Devil is Real. Be Armed.

By Russell Shaw Is the devil real? Here is Msgr. Ronald Knox on that: “It...

March 2015

March 05, 2015

That Human Decency Stubbornly Persists is Hopeful

A man I know was walking his dog when a neighbor woman approached him and...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Same Sex Marriage Inevitable; Churches Must Seek Legal Protections

by Russell Shaw The likelihood that the Supreme Court next June will announce its discovery...

February 05, 2015

In Politics, Shouldn’t “Adult Conversations” be a Given?

By Russell Shaw I try to take American politics seriously, I really do. Serious issues...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Jesus never said, “Don’t worry, it’s just an ideal…”

By Russell Shaw Is the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, including indissolubility, an ideal or...

January 08, 2015

Great Society to Obama: Government Effect on Family Size

By Russell Shaw President Lyndon Baines Johnson had spoken the words “Great Society” before, but...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

False Values Deliver Only False Heroes

By Russell Shaw Let’s face it, 2014 was a rotten year for heroes and hero...

December 11, 2014

Culture War: Loud in Proportion to What Would be Silenced

by Russell Shaw For months after the Supreme Court abruptly legalized abortion in its Roe...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Losing Our Catholic Youth As We Dither

by Russell Shaw During the 10:30 Mass in my parish a couple of Sundays ago...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Will Containing Ebola, Degrading ISIS be Enough?

By Russell Shaw The headline on a recent Washington Post Op-Ed about the rise of...