Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
He has abandoned the limits he supported as a senator—and it isn’t enough for advocates. Kamala Harris just made history. On Thursday she became the first vice president to visit an abortion clinic, stopping by a Planned Parenthood location in Minnesota to tout the Biden administration’s proud support. Probably it also marked the first time … Read more
The conflict in Israel and Gaza shows this corruption in obvious form. When Lord Acton wrote his deathless phrase, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” to his friend Bishop Creighton, he was referring to the corruption not just of officeholders but of the people around them — the historians and intellectuals who … Read more
The protestations were loud, angry, and widespread. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis excoriated Democrats for their bizarre and macabre obsession with expanding the right to kill a living human up until the moment of birth, progressive ministers, progressive pols, and progressive trolls alike came up for air. . . . You’ll excuse the Right for … Read more
Rates of autism are skyrocketing. The question isn’t just why—but what we need to do about it right now, and what’s holding us back. In the summer of 2001 we took our younger son, two-year-old Jonathan, to the neurologist. He hadn’t developed speech, never played with toys, and had a compulsion to stare at cracks … Read more
Libs of Tiktok’s Chaya Raichik went to California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell’s office to confront him over campaigning with Stacie Laughton, the first openly transgender lawmaker in the US, who is facing federal charges in connection with sexual exploitation at a daycare center. Swalwell (D-CA) attended campaign events with the former New Hampshire state representative. … Read more
The predominance of homosexuality within the ranks of Catholic clergy is a chief cause of the clerical sex abuse crisis and it fundamentally undermines the Church’s core mission. The Catholic bishops of Spain released a clerical sex abuse report at the beginning of the month, based on testimony from nearly a thousand abuse victims and … Read more
Rather than ruminating, turn outward and engage with the world. We hear a lot about America’s mental-health crisis, and the crisis is real. But part of the problem is that we talk about it too much. In an attempt to bring more attention to the issue, we’re becoming a nation that increasingly defines itself as … Read more
Law-enforcement officials say platform has emerged as biggest danger zone; adults who watch videos of young people are served up more of them A 42-year-old Alabama man uploaded to TikTok videos of himself lip-syncing to music and sharing depressive thoughts. A 14-year-old Texas girl responded. Before long, the two were exchanging romantic notes visible to … Read more
You guys, take notes, cuz this is how you do it. This is how you treat a member of your family when they enter the gender cult: Gender Nonconforming girl CRIES because her grandma won’t call her Mike as she requested The grandma is super nice about it, writes a personal card, and says she’s … Read more
Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five Black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions. Both the victimizers and victim were Black. The Memphis police chief is Black. The assistant police chief is Black. Nearly … Read more
The Bible warns us against tyrants — men who believe themselves gods — while reminding us that they fail before the True King. December 28 in the Christian calendar marks the Feast of the Holy Innocents — remembering King Herod’s slaughter of all male children age two or under in Bethlehem and the surrounding region, … Read more
New details raise questions about how officials handled abuse allegations at Franciscan University. Both Franciscan University of Steubenville and its sponsoring religious order said Friday they would not comment on newly surfaced allegations, which claim that officials mishandled spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse reports from the victim of Fr. David Morrier, a former university chaplain … Read more
Food riot risks continue to soar worldwide as the head of the food-aid branch of the United Nations halved meal rations for refugees. On Monday, David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), released a statement detailing “the heartbreaking decision to cut food rations for refugees who rely on us for their survival.” … Read more
Over 40 years ago, “Lookin’ for Love” became a hit country song after appearing in the film Urban Cowboy. The song’s signature line is “I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.” Several times in the last few weeks, that honky-tonk tune has inexplicably come to mind, and I found myself substituting the … Read more
Mike. This one feels different. The depravity, the horror, the undeniable evil – we’ve seen it all before, from Columbine to Newtown. But today, I can’t help but feel our country is suffering from some kind of irreversible rot. That evil is winning. That our species is doomed. I don’t expect you say anything to … Read more
In a post-Roe world, nobody gets to dictate abortion policy to anybody — rather, abortion policy will be decided by democratically elected lawmakers. That is not dictatorship, but democracy. The importance of that point should be easily understood by all intelligent observers, including those of our friends and neighbors who support abortion rights. It is … Read more
President Biden has had almost five decades to practice the euphemisms required to defend abortion without sounding like a ghoul. But sometimes he still gets mixed up. Earlier this week, for example, as he reassured reporters that he believes “a woman’s right to choose is fundamental,” Biden made the mistake of making clear that the … Read more
Today, children are increasingly introduced to transgenderism in public schools, in picture books and novels at the library, at doctor’s and counselor’s offices, in television programming and advertisements, and among family and friends. Online, teens are exposed to hypersexualized women on the one hand and transgender individuals or “influencers” on the other who showcase (and … Read more
William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer who ever lived. For those of us who have long admired the brilliance of his work and its healthy Christian morality, the growing evidence that he was a believing Catholic in very anti-Catholic times is very exciting. Broadly speaking, the evidence for Shakespeare’s Catholicism is biographical, historical and … Read more
One of the realities of the human condition is that our bodies degrade over time and that causes everyone whose life is not cut short by disease and injury to eventually experience physical suffering. This is part of God’s Plan of Providence and serves several useful purposes, even for the people experiencing excruciating, unrelenting pain. … Read more
Researchers from the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research along with leading global medical technology company Integra LifeSciences, today announced new breakthrough for nerve repair therapies based on body’s own processes in the journal Matrix Biology. The pre-clinical study showed that use of … Read more
You say, the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times. The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So, change human beings and the times will be changed. … Read more
Sometimes, Donald Trump’s boundless dishonesty collides with his bottomless stupidity in a particularly amusing way. Tell me: What kind of genius steals something that is given away for free? Trump, as you may have heard, is making a second go at starting a social-media company, having failed once already with his Twitteresque “From the Desk … Read more
What to make of Christians embracing the U.N. and denying Christ? . . . Even so, since this is the century of illiterate pride (CIP), there seems to be a proliferation of Christians who think it reasonable that Catholic schools not be Catholic, or that Christians apologize for having spread the light of the Gospel … Read more
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin — a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was … Read more