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Lessons Drawn from the Japanese Martyrs 27 Aug 2013 | 12:15 pm
Christianity came to Japan in 1549. The Land of the Rising Sun must have been ready to hear the good news when St Francis Xavier first set foot on its shores. By the time he left, just two years later...
Homosexuality: A New Approach is Needed 27 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
If we are going to save our culture, it is important that Christians change their approach toward homosexuality. Fighting the GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) agenda in the legislatu...
Shakespeare’s King Lear 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Lear’s loyal servant Kent advises the king to “see better,” when Lear unjustly banishes his beloved daughter Cordelia for not flattering him with the bombast of her sisters proclaiming they love their...
Against the Senseless Destruction of Churches 26 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Last year, L’Eglise de Notre Dame de l’Assumption, in the old fishing port of Arichat, Nova Scotia, celebrated its 175th anniversary. Its twin spires overlook the bay where John Paul Jones, to Americ...
How Long Will Secular Liberalism Endure? 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Secular liberalism is at odds with Catholicism. The point seemed obvious to most people until the postwar period, when the thought took hold that an essentially harmonious relationship could be establ...
Gov. O’Malley’s Dereliction of Duty 23 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Maryland governor Martin O’Malley is supposed to be a good Catholic boy. The 50 year-old Democrat and former Baltimore mayor was educated in Catholic schools and got his bachelor’s degree from the Cat...
The Christian Vestiges of Post-Christianity 23 Aug 2013 | 12:20 pm
It would be a mistake to think that Post-Christianity is a return to paganism, purely and simply. Certainly its environs include numerous strains of paganism—New Ageism, eco-feminism, “new cosmology” ...
Christians Suffer as U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East Flounders 22 Aug 2013 | 12:15 pm
President Obama these days looks like a homeowner paralyzed in shock as he sees his house ablaze from across the street. The White House is fine, but the president’s foreign policy in the Middle East...
When Classrooms are Pulpits for Bullies 22 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
On June 19, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled in favor of a high school student named Daniel Glowacki, who had charged that his high school teacher, Jay McDowell, had vi...
Hansel and Gretel—The Fairy Tale School of Fear and Violence 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
A popular condemnation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is that they are too violent for children. Many parents would sooner provide mindless stories with bad art and no story line than something classic like ...