Archive for May, 2011
Religious Liberty vs. Same-Sex “Marriage”
Boy, does Marianne Duddy-Burke ever miss the point. Duddy-Burke is the executive director of DignityUSA, an organization whose stated goal is to advocate for change in the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Her recent editorial in The Huffington Post is a perfect example of the type of argument in which the Church’s critics first mischaracterize [...]
As the Family Goes, So Goes the Economy
Many studies have shown that kids are not “all right” emotionally or behaviourally in just any family structure, and the same is true for their economic mobility and well-being. Once again the data shows that children in married families fare far better than their counterparts in other familial structures. “Marriage among the very poor helps them leave poverty and keep their children from entering the ‘low income state’…” In addition these children are more likely to be upwardly mobile.
FPA Fights to Keep Healthy Maine Funding
The Family Planning Association of Maine (FPA) is currently in a budget battle to maintain funding from the Fund for a Healthy Maine (FHM). The Fund was established in 1999 to receive and distribute tobacco settlement money, with allocations limited to the following health-related purposes:
* Smoking prevention, cessation and control activities.
* Prenatal and young [...]
On Catholic Culture: Building Community
Virtue is learned by imitation. In our families, the children will learn to live in a Catholic way, not from CCD or periodic youth ministry meetings, but from seeing their parents live a life of faith. The faith will be empty for them, and they will lose it, unless they see what it looks like in practice, they will not be able to see the truth of the faith as a living reality.
On Catholic Culture: Grace Perfects Nature
Human perfection is in virtuous action, but we cannot be virtuous by ourselves, much like we cannot love unless there is someone to love. Without others, we cannot practice justice, we cannot share or seek wisdom, we cannot live [...]
On Catholic Culture
We are Catholics. We love Christ and we love His Church. We want the Church to continue and grow strong, for a couple of reasons: first, because we want the salvation of the world, and we want that because Christ wants it. Second, we want it, because the Catholic way of life outshines every other way of life in beauty. This is more than ever evident in these times, as more and more people trip down the slippery path into a kind of lazy [...]
LD 1463: Are the Unborn Human?
“Are the unborn human?” is the fundamental question in the debate over legalized abortion. According to the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision:
If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment. The appellant conceded as [...]
Action Alert: Rethinking the Immigration Debate
At the height of the national debate over Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law, Our Sunday Visitor published an interview with Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, the number one question being, “What don’t the bishops understand about “illegal”? Why disrespect the rule of law?”
To which, [...]
John Boehner’s Voting Record
Speaker of the House John Boehner was this year’s commencement speaker at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. In response to the university’s announcement of Boehner as commencement speaker, a group of academics circulated a letter challenging Boehner’s voting record as being “at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings.”
Signatories include a [...]
You Cut: United Nations Population Fund
With just a click of your mouse, you can cut funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the YouCut program, it is an initiative developed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, which allows the public to submit ideas for programs they believe should be eliminated. One of [...]
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