October 16, 2016

Pope Francis’s Policy toward Islam Makes Sense

Numerous pundits, even some Catholic ones, have been critical of Pope Francis for not taking a tougher stand against the Islamic religion. But Pope Francis’ approach to dealing with Islam is not the bad policy that some seem to think it is. ...

March 27, 2016

Why We Are Here

Nearly 2,000 Easter Sundays have come and gone since the first one, but even after all that time Jesus’ words on how we should live still do not seem to have registered with us. Everything Jesus taught us about how to live is pretty much sum...

January 3, 2016

Debating the Nature of God

The recent flap at Wheaton College, an Evangelical college near Chicago, caused by Dr. Larcyia Hawkins donning a Muslim hijab to stand in religious solidarity with Muslims ‘because Christians and Muslims believe in the same God,’ touched ...

December 30, 2015

When the Takers Make More than the Makers

When I was a lad way back in the 60s my father gave me some career planning advice -- “If you want to make money go to work in the private sector, but if you want job security go to work in the public sector. The public sector doesn’t pay...

December 25, 2015

A Cafeteria Christmas

Children who grow up in Christian households in the U.S. are taught from an early age on that the true meaning of Christmas is about celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But they quickly come to realize that Christmas also means...

September 20, 2015

Stirring the Pot in Preparation for the Pope's Visit

With Pope Francis’s visit to the U.S. just around the corner (Tuesday September 23) the MSM and all the other liberal/progressive news outlets are once again doing their best to convince everyone that Pope Francis really is a liberal/progressiv...

June 13, 2015

Francis is not the Left's Pope

Apart from the recent misquote regarding Mahmoud Abbas (Pope Francis encouraged Abbas to “become an angel of mercy;” he did not say that Abbas ‘is an angel of mercy’), the silence from the Left has been pretty deafening i...

April 7, 2015

Republicans Behaving Like Democrats

By signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) into law, Indiana governor and GOP presidential nominee wannabe Mike Pence briefly looked like a real conservative, trying to champion the Judeo-Christian morals and principles that made this co...

January 25, 2015

Old Religious Hatreds Die Hard

Whatever the minor flaws in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 movie Gangs of New York, the critically acclaimed movie did call attention to a number of hot button issues in 1863 New York and the rest of the still fairly young country. One of the hottest o...

January 23, 2015

Actions that the 114th Congress Needs to Take

Now that the GOP has taken control of the House and Senate, and his highness has delivered yet another ‘Fantastical State of the Union’ address, the 114th Congress needs to get down to business, but so far indications are that there is mo...

January 18, 2015

Why the Left Wants Conservatives to View Francis as a Liberal

In an opinion piece at The Week on January 13 entitled “The Republican Party’s War with the Pope has finally started,” Damon Linker states, “It looks like 2015 is shaping up to be the year when Catholic Conservatives declare w...

October 23, 2014

The Truth about the Synod

For many, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, the end of the  ”Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops” to discuss the “‎Pastoral ‎challenges to the family in the context of evangelization” (i.e., th...

October 10, 2014

Maybe it's All About Integrity

Boy, have we got problems.     There are radical Islamist extremists out there who want to kill all non-Muslims and establish a worldwide caliphate, and the Ebola virus that just wants to kill any human being it comes in contact wit...

October 8, 2014

Two Approaches to Fighting Poverty

America, a Catholic magazine that has been around since 1909, and which takes a liberal/progressive view on social issues, is currently running essays by Catholic politicians Senator Paul Ryan (R) and Congressman Joe Kennedy III (D), on the poverty p...

March 10, 2014

A Sane Immigration Policy

There’s no doubt that something needs to be done regarding U.S. immigration policy, as well as in regard to the millions of people who are already living in the country illegally.  The question is and has been “what?” And it no...

March 9, 2014

A Good Year for the Pope

March 13 will mark the one year anniversary of the election of Pope Francis, and according to a new Pew poll, American Catholics, and a majority of American non-Catholics, like Pope Francis.  Amongst U.S. Catholics Francis has an 85% “net ...

December 29, 2013

Conservatism and Social Justice

Charles Dickens' message to the world is heard loud and clear by many around Christmastime each year, when Scrooge says to Marley's ghost, 'you were a good businessman,' and Marley replies, 'Mankind should have been my business.' For maybe a week or...

December 26, 2013

Business and the Gospels

Now that Pope Francis has cleared the air regarding his ideology, conservatives can breathe a collective sigh of relief (pun intended). Unfortunately one of the key messages in his exhortation -- that we have made money into an idol and that business...

December 1, 2013

What the Pope Really Said

Pope Francis issued his first apostolic exhortation this week, and it has created quite a firestorm. A Google news search on 'Pope' following the release of exhortation turned up all kinds of stories proclaiming that Pope Francis says Capitalism is '...