September 19, 2018

Predatory men vs. predatory women: A double standard?

Are men convicted of certain sex crimes given harsher sentences than women convicted of certain sex crimes?  It seems that way. Case in point: In 2017, Ronald Godby, a former Northwestern University police officer, pleaded guilty to the ...

September 4, 2018

Who can properly investigate the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis?

In recent weeks , there's been considerable coverage and chatter in the mainstream media, on social media, and in the Catholic blogosphere on the fallout over the Pennsylvania grand jury report, not to mention the Pope Francis versus Archbishop V...

June 20, 2018

Illegal immigration and the Catholic establishment

I admit to not having a passionate view on the immigration issue.  I do think there needs to be reform, but I'm no Ann Coulter when it comes to the problem of illegal immigration. That said, it bothers me to see the left, including m...

February 12, 2018

Miami Catholic school did the right thing

Once again, the left is expressing outrage over "politically-incorrect" Catholic teaching and practice. From the Miami Herald: First-grade teacher Jocelyn Morffi lost her job at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School on Thursday, ...

January 17, 2018

Is the pope pro-life?

Is the pope pro-life? Is the pope Catholic? At one time, the second question was a rhetorical retort meant to elicit a cheap laugh. Currently, it's a topic open for serious debate, sad to say. So is Pope Francis specifically pro-life?...

September 29, 2017

Illinois's Governor Rauner shows his true colors

Illinois governor Bruce Rauner, a "moderate" (read: liberal) Republican who's virtually indistinguishable from a liberal Democrat, has broken a promise he made to Illinois pro-lifers last April, when he stated that he'd veto a bill ...

September 16, 2017

God bless these protestors!

No, I’m not referring to the radical leftist thugs who’ve been causing mayhem in recent times. I’m referring to the pro-life activists who on Sept. 15 participated in peaceful “rescues” at three abortion facilities na...

June 9, 2017

Priest-activist: Trump 'a blessing' for the Church

President Trump has had his share of detractors in the Catholic Church (yet he did win the Catholic vote in 2016), but Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life – and friend of civil rights activist Alveda C. King, Ma...

May 26, 2017

Planned Parenthood exposer’s legal woes increase

The legal woes of pro-life activist and journalist David Daleiden – known for his undercover videos exposing the selling and trafficking of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood officials and other abortion industry insiders – continue. ...

March 29, 2017

California prosecutors charge pro-life activists with 15 felonies

Some unfortunate, but not very surprising, news from the pro-life trenches, courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com: The state of California charged David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) with 15 crimes [yesterday]....

March 9, 2017

Trump upsets another special interest group: Pedophiles

Here's some encouraging news you may not see in the opposition party's reporting. From ChurchMilitant.com: The mainstream media (MSM) has kept silent as President Donald Trump in his first two months of office has overseen the ar...

March 5, 2017

Vatican archbishop commissions himself into a 'homoerotic' mural

There are times when I wish a real news story was a fake news story. This is one of those times. From LifeSiteNews.com: The archbishop now at the helm of the Pontifical Academy for Life paid a homosexual artist to paint a blasphemous homoe...

February 12, 2017

'Forced government speech' in Illinois (and California)

First, it was good to see that lots of pro-lifers around the country were peacefully protesting Planned Parenthood on Feb. 11. Sure, there were some locations where pro-aborts outnumbered pro-lifers, but that’s to be expected. As we’ve se...

February 11, 2017

Trump, Bannon, Burke, and Pope Francis

It appears that at least a few left-wing commentators believe that the Trump administration – and Stephen K. Bannon, in particular – wants essentially to take over the Vatican and influence American Catholics more than Jorge Mario Bergogl...

February 2, 2017

Male student sues Purdue, alleging sex bias

Are male college students accused of sexual misconduct assumed guilty until proven innocent? From IndyStar: A male student filed a lawsuit this week against Purdue University, saying a sexual misconduct investigation unfairly resulted in his ...

January 31, 2017

Trump blasted by NYT and Catholic bishops

President Trump is taking heat from The New York Times and the U.S. Catholic bishops over his executive order regarding refugees and migrants. Who’da thunk it? Observes Carl E. Olson, editor of Catholic World Report: The New York Tim...

January 26, 2017

The pope, the president, and the international left

Pope Francis is going to “wait and see” before judging President Trump, according to reports.  That’s comforting, I guess. Readers might recall a previous post of mine in which a story was highlighted about how the Vatican r...

January 21, 2017

The pope and the new president

It’s nice – a bit of a relief, actually – that Pope Francis has sent his “good wishes” to President Trump, despite the pope seemingly being less than enthusiastic about Trump’s candidacy during the campaign. The...

January 16, 2017

MLK’s niece: I voted for Trump

The latest media-manufactured controversy surrounding President-Elect Trump involves Congressman John Lewis, who won’t be attending the inauguration because he believes that Mr. Trump will be an illegitimate president.  (He reportedly beli...

January 14, 2017

Did Loretta Lynch lie about the CPD’s former head?

The Department of Justice is quite busy these days. From ABC7Chicago.com: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Friday that the Chicago Police Department has been violating the constitutional rights of residents for years in a blistering r...

January 11, 2017

Senator’s slanderous statements at Sessions hearing

It’s no secret that the Democratic Party is pro-abortion to the core.  Liberal Dems seem to make every effort to ensure that no abortion is prevented.  (I should note that there are at least a few pro-life Dems who aren’t afraid...

January 5, 2017

Disabled man tortured by Trump-cursing group broadcast on Facebook

Another sickening story out of blood-soaked Chicago. From Fox 32 Chicago: Chicago investigators are questioning four African-Americans after a Facebook Live video shows a group of people torturing a white mentally disabled man while someone y...

November 20, 2016

Holy Terror in Chicago?

It’s frustrating that good, orthodox Catholic priests have to walk on eggshells here in the Archdiocese of Chicago, while politically leftist priests-activists, who are the darlings of the political/church establishment and local media, can bas...

November 16, 2016

Trump, a shocked Vatican, and ‘papal’ climate change

It appears that many Vatican officials are unhappy with Donald Trump’s presidential victory. Boo-hoo. From the National Catholic Register: … Corriere della Sera reported Nov. 10 that, according to its research, most in th...

November 11, 2016

Trump won the Catholic vote

A pleasant surprise: Donald Trump won the election – and he won the Catholic vote! From Catholic World News: Contrary to pollsters’ expectations, a majority of Catholic voters cast ballots for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential...

November 11, 2015

Chicago archbishop apologizes to kids for gun availability

In what appears to be a veiled attempt to exploit the tragic and cold-blooded murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee of Chicago -- targeted because of his father’s gang affiliation – Roman Catholic Archbishop Blase Cupich has apologized to chil...

November 7, 2015

'Safer sexting' for minors?

Once again, a liberal has proposed a fatuous “solution” to a cultural problem.  In this case, the problem is sexting by minors. From The New York Times: At least 100 students at a high school in Cañon City traded naked...

November 5, 2015

'Spotlight' on media, Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal

The clergy sex abuse scandal has, since 1950, reportedly cost the Catholic Church nearly $4 billion.  Even if we take into account some (many?) false accusations made against certain clergy and religious, it's still a depressing statistic. ...

October 31, 2015

Frightful: Tarantino, Pfleger, Farrakhan

From USA Today: Police unions in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles have already called for a boycott of Tarantino films—his latest, The Hateful Eight, lands on Christmas Day—and now the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Associa...

October 16, 2015

Abortionist had jars of human tissue in car

The lives of abortionists are often sordid and bizarre.  This is just the latest example. From LifeSiteNews.com: Over the past 17 years, notorious abortionist Michael Arthur Roth has been found negligent and incompetent by the state of M...

October 12, 2015

Chicago's Catholic archbishop calls for more gun control

In early August, Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago angered a number of pro-lifers (myself included) when he wrote in reference to the Planned Parenthood scandal: While commerce in the remains of defenseless children is particularly repulsive, w...

October 3, 2015

Surprise! Vatican distances pope from Kim Davis

It’s almost laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic. The Vatican is now downplaying the “brief meeting” Pope Francis had with Kim Davis during his trip to the U.S. From the National Catholic Register: Vatican spokesman F...

September 30, 2015

Surprise! The pope met with Kim Davis

Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, who's been the primary object of the left's scorn for a number of weeks, met privately with Pope Francis during his recent trip to the U.S.  Her attorney, Mat Staver, confirmed the meeting in an email to me....

September 28, 2015

Good for Carly!

GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina was temporarily given favorable media coverage for scoring some points on Donald Trump in the last GOP presidential debate, but in recent days she’s taken a lot of heat from the pro-abortionists. The la...

September 19, 2015

Should Trump have insisted Obama's not a Muslim?

It's almost comical the way the mainstream media are reacting to Donald Trump's "non-correction" of a town hall questioner referring to President Obama as a Muslim. I suppose it would've been more accurate for Trump to answer...

September 15, 2015

'Miss America's' Miss Alabama is 'terrified' of Trump's candidacy

Stop the press. Meg McGuffin, who was a contestant on the Miss America pageant, is no fan of Donald Trump. From TheHill.com: ‘I think Donald Trump is an entertainer and I think he says what’s on a lot of people’s minds,...

September 9, 2015

Mike Huckabee, Kim Davis face rock musician's wrath

It’s becoming a broken record, frankly.  GOP candidates who use popular rock songs as anthems are often dissed by the musicians who wrote and/or sang the songs. Neil Young dissed The Donald. Tom Petty dissed George W. Bush and Michel...

September 4, 2015

Images of death

Yes, images of death can, and do, have a profound impact on the collective conscience. From Reuters: The family of two Syrian toddlers who drowned as they tried to reach Greece had not yet applied to enter Canada, the extended family said on ...

August 21, 2015

Dems investigating Planned Parenthood's exposers

Leave it to the morally bankrupt Democrats to launch an investigation into the pro-life group that’s been exposing some of the evil deeds of Planned Parenthood. From LifeNews.com: Just one day after Planned Parenthood was exposed cuttin...

August 16, 2015

I can see why Trump doesn't like Rosie

Donald Trump is no saint, but I can see why he doesn’t like comedian and liberal commentator (perhaps that’s a bit redundant) Rosie O’Donnell, who considers herself a defender of women’s rights. From LifeNews.com: ...

August 13, 2015

The tattered 'seamless garment' of social justice

Informed Catholics (and, in all likelihood, at least some politically and socially conservative non-Catholics) of the last few decades are familiar with the so-called "seamless garment" philosophy, espoused by the late Cardinal Joseph Berna...

August 9, 2015

Donald Trump, Roger Stone (thankfully) part ways

So, depending on whose account you choose to believe, it was either Donald Trump to Roger Stone: you're fired, or it was Roger Stone to Donald Trump: I quit.  Stone was Trump's chief political adviser and consultant. From The Washingt...

July 31, 2015

Three prominent New York Catholics critical of Trump

The Donald isn’t getting much love from three prominent New York Catholics: Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York; Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League; and Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life (it shoul...

July 29, 2015

Mainstream media having a hard time ignoring Planned Parenthood

I’m grateful to conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh (as I was in 2005 when he spoke out eloquently in defense of the late Terri Schiavo) for keeping the current Planned Parenthood scandal prominent on his show.  From RushLimbau...

July 26, 2015

It pays to be pro-gay -- except in Kenya

Kenyans were reportedly “exuberant” over Obama’s visit -- except for the pro-LGBT remarks he made to appease the homosexual lobby. From the Los Angeles Times: Standing side by side with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Obama...

July 24, 2015

The fussing toddler and the foul-mouthed diner owner

A parenting debate of sorts recently erupted on social media – Facebook, to be exact – and caught the eye of the mainstream media.   Tara Carson, her husband, and their 21-month-old daughter stopped to eat at Marcy’s Di...

July 17, 2015

Could the latest Planned Parenthood video expose backfire on pro-lifers?

There appears to be much outrage within the pro-life movement about the latest development pertaining to Planned Parenthood – a story Thomas Lifson documents in a July 15 blog post. As someone who worked in the pro-life movement in years pas...

June 7, 2015

Why conservatives should use the courts to fight academia's censorship

We have yet another example of an institution of higher learning attempting to censor freedom of speech – of conservatives. From The College Fix (June 4): After images of fetuses growing in the womb caused an uproar at the University of...

June 2, 2015

Bruce Jenner and the culture of insanity

The current main pop-culture headline involves former Olympian Bruce Jenner “transitioning” into a woman.  He’s on the cover of Vanity Fair as “Caitlyn,” and he’ll be receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at...

May 24, 2015

Josh Duggar and the left's schadenfreude

Josh Duggar, son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting fame, has made national headlines for a leaked 2006 police report indicating he sexually abused five minor girls when he himself was a minor. In a statement, Dugga...

May 7, 2015

The moral problem of in vitro fertilization

Although not a subject you’ll often hear discussed even in pro-life circles, in vitro fertilization is an evil that should be prohibited by law.  (I concede that it’s a pipe dream to think this will occur in the foreseeable futu...

April 26, 2015

Are the majority of Americans against religious freedom?

Sadly, there’s yet another indication that pro-life, pro-family conservatives have all but lost the culture war. From The Hill’s political news blog: A majority of Americans think that business owners should not be allowed to refu...

April 17, 2015

The left's PR battle against the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco

The libertine left’s bullying of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco continues (in fairness, the moral climate there isn’t any worse than here in Chicago). From Catholic World News: More than 100 prominent Catholics s...

April 6, 2015

Rolling Stone and morality in journalism

Rolling Stone magazine’s now discredited UVA rape story was a failure on a number of journalistic levels.  It was such a failure that one would think some heads will roll, so to speak. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the ...

April 1, 2015

Abortionists recruiting minors for bleeding experiment

No, this isn’t some sick April Fools’ Day joke. From LifeNews.com: The University of Hawaii is recruiting patients as young as 14 for second-trimester abortions to determine how much they bleed during the procedure. The controvers...

March 28, 2015

Religious freedom vs. gay rights

Not surprisingly, the left is throwing an absolute hissy fit over Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signing into law the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  But for God-fearing and reasonable people, the law makes sense. From The Daily Si...

March 17, 2015

Employed conservatives and the pitfalls of social media

Regarding the use of social media, I think it’s safe to say that, in our current culture, if you’re an employed liberal, you can “get away with” more than if you’re an employed conservative. Case in point (from Cathol...

March 13, 2015

Anti-Catholicism still tolerated in academe?

When video footage of some apparently imbibing frat boys (and a few sorority girls) from the University of Oklahoma participating in a racist chant recently went viral, the reaction was fast and furious.  There was public outrage, the fraternity...

March 9, 2015

Bullying the San Francisco archbishop

Gotta love those tolerant city officials in San Francisco.  Now they’re directing their wrath toward Catholic archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.  And for what? The archbishop wants the teachers in the archdiocesan school system ...

March 6, 2015

American Taxpayers Underwriting Abortions In Israel?

Many conservatives have been supportive of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his March 3 speech at a joint meeting of Congress was indicative of that support. But we mustn’t forget—or overlook, if you prefer—that the...

January 28, 2015

A 'handcuffs project' for abortionists

An interesting project has been undertaken by the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League. Today [Jan. 22]—the forty-second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision—the Pro-Life Action League sent an special care pa...

October 24, 2013

Taxpayer-funded transvestites?

I think it goes without saying that many young people struggle with their sexuality. That struggle requires compassion and, in some cases, professional counseling and therapy. (I sound like Dr. Phil, but, hey, it's accurate.) But taxpayer-funded ga...

August 24, 2013

Craziness in California

Two very recent examples of craziness in liberal and libertine California (and I write this knowing full well that my state of residence, Illinois, is no better)... 1) From the Catholic League: Bill Donohue comments on the California bill that wou...

April 30, 2013

Tim Tebow, Jason Collins and the culture war

Two sports stories made headlines yesterday: The New York Jets released openly Christian quarterback Tim Tebow, and NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet, making him the first active, openly gay professional athlete in the four major U.S. s...

March 22, 2013

Chicago school system closes schools, expands sex education

On March 21, Chicago Public Schools announced a mass school closing, a move the city's illustrious (ahem) mayor, Rahm Emanuel, supports. From Reuters: Chicago will close 54 schools and 61 school buildings by the beginning of the next academic ye...

February 15, 2013

Sexual Anarchy on Valentine's Day

Gone are the days when Valentine's Day meant only flowers, cards, candy and romantic dinners. Now it's a very costly epidemic of sexually-transmitted diseases, the promotion of same-sex marriage, abortion and contraception here in the U.S. and overse...

January 10, 2013

Brent Musburger and 'the masculine aspect of sports'

Talk about going overboard! No, I'm not referring to Brent Musburger's on-the-air fawning over the attractive girlfriend of Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback A. J. McCarron during the BCS national title game on ESPN. I'm referring to th...

January 3, 2013

Illinois GOP Chair's disappointing stance

Welcome to Illinois, the state where morally corrupt Democrats and Republicans (with some exceptions, of course) abound. In a somewhat surprising and very disappointing move, Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady is calling on Republican state lawmakers to ...

December 24, 2012

Too sexy for one's job?

An interesting court case came to a controversial conclusion on December 21. From Newsmax.com: The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that employers in the state can legally fire workers they find too attractive. In a unanimous decision, the cou...

December 20, 2012

A crack in Obama's armor?

Just when you're about to give up entirely on the federal courts, a small sign of hope emerges. From The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: Today [Dec. 18], a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. handed Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey Col...

December 14, 2012

Hate crimes, the media, and the Obama administration

Are the Obama administration and mainstream media (or is that one in the same?) fostering hate against Christians? It appears so. From FrontPage Magazine: Quick, gather your children and household pets, the sweeping wave of Islamophobia that is ...

November 30, 2012

Social (in)justice

I don't know about you, but when I hear liberals talking about "social justice," I cringe. And I'm not the only one. Anthony Esolen, professor of Renaissance English Literature and the Development of Western Civilization at Providence College, and ...

November 27, 2012

The priest, concealed carry, and the stalker

Chicago's notoriously liberal priest-agitator and local media darling, Father Michael Pfleger, is glad President Obama has been re-elected. Pfleger is, not surprisingly, continuing to push for more gun control (while looking the other way as the Obam...

October 19, 2012

Taxpayer money helps fund 'heterophobia'

Not only does taxpayer money help fund Planned Parenthood and the killing of unborn children; it also helps fund "heterophobia." From Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX): In a letter to the Centers for Disease Control, Parents and Friends...

October 17, 2012

Obama's mammogram misinformation (updated)

It's no secret that President Obama supports abortion-on-demand. And, of course, he wants us taxpayers to help fund abortion via Planned Parenthood. In fact, he'll even be less than truthful (imagine that!) in an attempt to portray the abortion giant...

October 12, 2012

A tale of two Catholics

Paul Ryan vs. Joe Biden. Two Catholics were on display in last night's vice presidential debate. Or, more precisely, a Catholic vice presidential candidate (Ryan) was debating a "Catholic" vice president (Biden). As a Catholic journalist/columnist wh...

October 11, 2012

It depends on what the meaning of the words 'religious freedom' is...

Which entity do you trust more -- the Obama administration or the federal judiciary? If you answered "Neither," I'd say you're right on the money. To wit: Kenneth D. Whitehead, who served as a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education during the Reagan ...

July 18, 2012

'The unscrupulous Eric Holder is at it again'

If you're a (peaceful) pro-life activist, watch out for the feds! To wit: On July 13, two FBI agents paid a home visit to Andy Moore, the son-in-law of noted pro-life nurse-turned-activist Jill Stanek. The agents questioned Moore about his pro-life a...

June 23, 2012

Day of Reckoning

I'm relieved yet saddened by the events of June 22, 2012. Relieved because I believe justice has been served both in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case and, in Philadelphia, the case resulting in the conviction of a senior Catholic Church offi...

May 5, 2012

Are Catholics 'fertile ground' for conversion to Islam?

Inter-religious dialogue, anyone? From a May 4 news item at CatholicCulture.org: A senior Al-Qaeda operative [Adam Yahiye Gadahn] advised Osama bin Laden in January 2011 that Irish Catholics-and Catholics in general-are ripe for conversion to Islam,...

April 4, 2012

Does Romney have a prayer in November?

As I type this post, Mitt Romney is well on his way to being the Republican nominee in the presidential race.  But does he have a prayer against President Obama? Granted, we have several months to go, but let's face it-things look rather bleak r...

March 24, 2012

Nationwide anti-Obama rallies ignored by the media (again)

It's always nice to see large groups of concerned citizens peacefully protesting the Obama administration's moral bankruptcy, even if you don't hear much about it from mainstream media outlets. From a March 23 story at LifeSiteNews.com: Another 'Occ...

March 18, 2012

Is Obama caving on, or widening, the contraception mandate?

Leave it to the Obama administration to muddy up the waters even more. From a March 16 story at LifeSiteNews.com: In a move that is likely to reignite the ire of religious leaders, late Friday afternoon the Obama administration announced a proposal ...

March 16, 2012

Tunnel vision nanny state

If Big Gov is going to nag us, why the tunnel vision?  Cigarettes are still very much legal, aren't they?  But, hey, they can do all sorts of nasty things to your body, and Big Brother wants you to know that -- big time. From a March 15 sto...

March 14, 2012

When Irish eyes are ... dying

St. Patrick must be rolling over in his grave -- and I can say that because I'm part Irish. Instead of receiving the best of what the U.S. has to offer, Ireland has been receiving the worst of what the U.S. has to offer, specifically in the form of b...

March 7, 2012

Catholics for Romney?

It appears that the Mormon (and moderate) Mitt Romney is getting more support among Catholic Republicans than one might think. From CNN.com: 'The surprise is that the Catholic candidate, Santorum, is losing the Catholic vote,' says CNN Polling Direc...

February 28, 2012

When Farrakhan talks, Father Pfleger listens

Wonders never cease, as they say. From a Feb. 27 story at the website of the Chicago Tribune: In a fiery lecture to thousands of followers of the Nation of Islam on Sunday in Chicago, Minister Louis Farrakhan warned that racial hatred could lead to ...

February 27, 2012

PETA's Hypocrisy

Liberals being hypocritical - imagine that.  The latest example: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. From a Feb. 24 story at The Daily Caller: Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,...

February 25, 2012

Where the women are

Women - specifically, pro-life women - are making their voices heard on the Obama contraception mandate. From a Feb. 23 story at LifeNews.com: Pro-life women are taking on pro-abortion Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi, who is claiming that women...

February 22, 2012

The libertine left's wrath targets a 14-year-old girl and her family

"If I ever see this girl, I will kill her. That's a promise."  Those precious words of tolerance were typed by an individual commenting on YouTube about a 14-year-old girl who recently, and publicly, defended traditional marriage. From a Fe...

February 21, 2012

U.S. population growth slows

Liberals received some good news yesterday. From a Feb. 20 story on the website of USA Today: The U.S. population is growing at the slowest rate since the Great Depression after two decades of robust increases.... The government says the recession e...

February 20, 2012

Feds want dismissal of Catholic college's contraception lawsuit

From a Feb. 17 press release by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, "a non-profit, public-interest law firm dedicated to protecting the free expression of all religious traditions": On Thursday, the Obama administration filed its first legal resp...

February 18, 2012

The U.S. bishops pushed unemployment benefits extension, from which they're exempt

Sometimes the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can be, well ... perplexing.  According to a Feb. 14 post at the website of The Washington Times: While the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has attacked President Obama's new mandate that re...

February 10, 2012

Obama-supporting gun control priest Pfleger still a loose cannon

Father Michael Pfleger, a vocal supporter of President Obama and a Chicago media darling, is back in the news. Again. You may recall that Pfleger made headlines in 2007, for threatening to "snuff out" a gun shop owner and legislators who oppose gun c...

February 8, 2012

California court overturns Prop 8

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, asserting that the voter-approved statewide initiative cannot limit the name "marriage" to heterosexual couples. In a Feb. 7 news release, Liberty Cou...

February 3, 2012

Breast cancer screening, abortion, and money for Planned Parenthood

Supporters of Planned Parenthood are furious about the recent decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to cease funding the abortion giant. I have to admit that Planned Parenthood-with help from the mainstream media-has done a masterful job over the y...

January 21, 2012

The Obama administration and their idea of 'freedom of conscience'

On Jan. 20, the Obama administration, specifically Health and Human Services, made it known that it will indeed require, in the words of a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops news release, "that sterilization and contraception--including controversia...