Recent Catholic Commentary

Here’s why I like Mike Huckabee… Partial transcript from his July 22 sound-off on the Colorado theatre massacre: I know that having a dozen people murdered in a movie theater gets our attention because – thank God – it doesn’t happen every day, but one million innocent and healthy unborn babies die in their mother’s wombs each year by elective abortions and we pay scant attention to that. …Ultimately, we don’t have a crime problem or a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we’ve ordered God out of our schools, […]

I couldn’t more highly recommend Abandoned. I couldn’t put the manuscript down once I opened it this winter.

Mississippi is down to its last abortion mill, and if it closes we’ll have the first state in the Union without an abortion mill in the forty years since Roe. That’s quite an accomplishment, and the people of Mississippi and the many pro-life groups from around the nation who have made that happen are to be congratulated. It takes quite a bit of education, activism, and prayer to make an abortion-free Mississippi happen. In a state with a large African American population, that is an especially welcome reprieve from the eugenic decimation of African Americans in New York City, where […]

A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received plenty of media coverage this past week. It presents historical data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey on the sexual activity of high-school students. The results indicate that there were declines in minors’ sexual activity during the 1990s. However, those declines have stalled in the current decade. The study is very detailed and presents data on various measures of teen sexual activity. These include the percentage of teens who have ever had sex, the percentage of teens who have had sex with four or more partners, […]

The cancer I’m referring to is the presence within the Church of numerous active homosexuals among the clergy at all levels, within many of the orders and among the laity in many Catholic institutions.