Category Faith

Marriage Is A Mess And Homosexuals Didn’t Do It

Marriage Is A Mess And Homosexuals Didn’t Do It I decided to re-blog this post for Public Catholic’s debut on Patheos. I think it lays it on the line where I stand on some important issues as well as any one post can. The post is: Marriage Is A Mess and Homosexuals Didn’t Do It. […]

Public Catholic Patheos Formal Debut Monday, August 13 !!

Dear Friends: Public Catholic will have its formal debut on Patheos tomorrow! I’ll continue to post links here as long as I can. But I won’t be able to do that for much longer. There are a few things you need to know about this process. 1.  Nothing posted here, including your comments and likes, […]

My Heart Aches for America

America suffered another tragic shooting today. The Reverend Billy Graham published a letter to America a few weeks ago that seems almost to speak of it when he says, “My heart aches for America.”  Here’s an excerpt of what he wrote: Some years ago, my wife, Ruth, was reading the draft of a book I […]

Pray for women and girls

Sex selected abortion is about misogyny. Misogyny is a blot on humanity. The blog Women of Vision is an excellent place to learn more about this. Pray for women and girls the world over, including here in America, who suffer discrimination, violence and second-class citizenship.

The Bombing

We call it The Bombing. We don’t use qualifiers about the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building, or Oklahoma City. Anytime you utter the words The Bombing around these parts, everyone in hearing distance will know what and when you mean. We also don’t talk about it much. This monstrous event knocked us flat as a […]

Mass in Aurora draws people seeking answers to tragedy :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Mass in Aurora draws people seeking answers to tragedy :: Catholic News Agency (CNA). There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety — let us pray that we may always know it!”  Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

House Committee to Vote Wednesday on 20-Week Abortion Ban | LifeNews.com

House Committee to Vote Wednesday on 20-Week Abortion Ban | LifeNews.com. The Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Wednesday on HR 3803, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The bill prohibits abortion after 22 weeks gestation. It is based on scientific evidence that an unborn baby can feel […]

Culture Warriors

I am creating the Culture Warrior Award to honor two stalwart culture warriors. These men stand for life, and they are in the fight for the long haul. They are two of Public Catholic’s finest Culture Warriors. We need more courageous blogs like theirs. You can find them at: http://nebraskaenergyobserver.wordpress.com/ and http://scpeanutgallery.com/

Foot of the Cross

Peter Wiebe’s blog, Threshold of Heaven, takes readers to the foot of the cross. Peter lost his precious little boy, Jesse, to cancer a year ago. Threshold of Heaven is a tribute to Jesse and a searingly honest account of the hardest grief any person can know; the loss of a child. Peter’s posts make […]

Christianity changing lives of India’s ‘untouchables’ :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Christianity changing lives of India’s ‘untouchables’ :: Catholic News Agency (CNA). I think we need a break from thinking about America’s current political morass. This story of how Christianity is affecting the untouchables of India, especially the women, is a present-day example of how Our Lord lifts people out of degradation. We are called to […]