St. Athanasius post-election 2008

If I might reword an old song, “What the world needs now” is a few more priests in the mold of St. Athanasius.
The recent media apoplexy over Fr. Jay Scott Newman of St.Mary’s in Greenville South Carolina throws a spotlight on the post-election fissure running through Catholic America.
Fr. Dwight Longnecker wrote  of Fr. Newman (at [...]

Dr. Peter Kreeft & the Culture War

Last night I had the pleasure of dining with Dr. Peter Kreeft–professor of philosophy at Boston College and the author of over 50 books– a dozen of those titles on my own shelves.
He spoke to a local Catholic group on the topic, “How to Win the Culture War”
The book by that title purchased here
Think of [...]

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus on Bishops & Obama

“In recent months, an unusually large number of bishops have been assertive, articulate, and even bold, in their public affirmation of the demands of moral reason and the Church’s teaching. Some estimate the number of such bishops to be over a hundred. Critics of these bishops, including Catholic fronts for the Obama campaign, claim that [...]

Voters & Marriage Amendments

The gay-rights lobby has filed suit in states that approved Marriage Amendments on November 4th.  For a look at how to present the case for marriage without “anti-gay” rhetoric please see the articles and links at
WWW.MARYJOANDERSON.NET

Bishops’ last word

Bishop Ochoa of El Paso:

In our nation, “abortion and
euthanasia have become preeminent threats to human dignity because they
directly attack life itself, the most fundamental human good and the
condition for all others” (Living the Gospel of Life, no. 5). It is a
mistake with grave moral consequences to treat the destruction of innocent
human life merely as a [...]