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In his March 9, 2009 remarks on the occasion of his executive order allowing broader federal funding for embryo-destructive research, President Obama stated:?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /
This Order is an...
As I noted last month, President Barack Obama is a master at concealing under many guises a strident pursuit of an aggressive anti-life agenda. He knows too that there is no easier way to grab the moral high ground in a contentious debate than by appearing to be the most reasonable of all parties concerned. On that score, the President hit a grand slam with his commencement address at Notre Dame on May 17.
In the swirl of controversy which engulfed his presence at the erstwhile flagship...
As only Mark Steyn could put it, "we're still in the first 100 days of the joyous observances of Barack Obama's first 100 days, and many weeks of celebration lie ahead." And how.
The inane swells of euphoria notwithstanding, one has to admit that those first 100 days have been very revealing: we have a President who knows that crisis -- especially an economic one -- is too good a thing to waste; we have a president who, as a person, is vastly more popular than his policies; we have a...
President Barack Obama issued an executive order on March 9, 2009 which suspended the Bush administration policy on the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research and directed the National Institutes of Health to come up with a new set of regulations for that research within a period of 120 days. Much hailed as a major step toward what he described in his Inaugural Address as a pledge to "restore science to its rightful place," it was the center piece of the culture-of-death...
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That's because I don't do Facebook.
For those who don't know what Facebook is (or who -- like me -- know enough to refuse to be sucked in, er, become a user) here's some quick background.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website. Social networking -- meeting people, making "friends", keeping up with "friends", tracking each others' every move -- is...
Some of the more disturbing aspects of contemporary western culture all seem to have converged in the recent birth of octuplets to Nadya Suleman, a single mother in ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /
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Aristotle, in the fifth book of his Politics, noted that political revolutions sometimes take place unobserved due to the fact that they occur over a long period of time through slow incremental changes in the constitution of a political community. This...
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The CatholicVote.com presidential video that went viral recently really hit a nerve and is a stroke of genius. Most have seen the video of the moment. It begins with a high definition ultrasound image of a child in-utero. Symphony music cues and rises as...
February 6, 2009
Last Thursday evening I was informed that, after an internal investigation of the charges lodged against him, it had been discovered that my religious congregation's founder, Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado fathered a child, who is now in her early 20s. Fr. Maciel founded the Legion in 1941. He died on January 30, 2008. On May 19, 2006, the ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /
