How do you solve a problem like Pope Francis?
Pope Francis has laid out his plans for the Church in “Evangelii Gaudium” (EG). Rush Limbaugh read it and has concluded he’s a Marxist. Politically conservative evangelicals fear they’ve lost an ally...
View Article‘A child shall lead them’
On Jan. 22 I spoke at an event planned for 8,000-plus young people at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. The event I was at had been set up to accommodate an overflow crowd because the Verizon...
View ArticleChristmas is a season, not a day
While the secular world is already moving on to St. Valentine’s Day, Christians are still observing the Christmas season, which doesn’t end until Jan. 12, the Baptism of the Lord. Christmas is a...
View ArticleSeparation of Church and State—what it really means
The Declaration of Independence states we all have God-given rights—not government-given rights, nor king-given rights—and that the whole purpose of a government is to defend the rights that a...
View ArticleJohn Paul II’s heroic soul
Rome’s chief exorcist shared in a 2011 interview that invoking the intercession of soon-to-be St. John Paul II has proven particularly effective during exorcisms. “I have asked the demon more than...
View ArticleHe conquered death
A dear friend of mine was recently diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of cancer. She has four children. The oldest is six. Some time ago I wrote about her conversion from Buddhism to...
View ArticleServant of God Father Kapaun, pray for us
The Korean War was one of the most brutal conflicts in human history. Millions lost their lives in a three-year span, many of them from the bitter cold. When the war ended in 1953, a group of American...
View ArticleThe middle ground
In the words of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “There are not 100 people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to...
View ArticleAtheism=Empty
One of the tactics used by the “evangelists” of the new atheism is to make the claim that we don’t need God to find meaning in life, motives for virtue, or happiness. One atheist I debated during a...
View ArticleDark Horse
Hip-hop and rap “love songs” seem to be ever more about the person singing or rapping, and about their sexual prowess, power, or wealth (aka “bling”), than about the object of their affection. It’s so...
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