Is there room?
Is there room to fight jihadists, and I mean to the death, while also feeling concern, even compassion, for refugees? Is it an either/or situation or a both/and situation? …
Author: Rick
“This is not an academic matter”
The State Department is on the brink of releasing a long awaited document declaring the genocide of the Yazidi people in Iraq by ISIS… a declaration that would mean …
Paris attacks – Open Thread
Reports are horrific, situation remains fluid, many dead, many injured, some held hostage. Talk among yourselves. Pray for the victims, their loved ones. And may justice be swift and …
A go-back…
… to a post I published a year ago today: There are many who equate proselytization, the act of using coercion or force to convert someone to the faith, …
“I think we’re sometimes more aware of what we’re against and what we fear, than what we’re for and what we love”
Beautiful wisdom from a young Catholic priest on the Starbucks Red Cup kerfluffle that applies much more widely: Father Rob Ketcham has his own Vimeo video page here… check ’em …
Modern man’s bias is “a huge intellectual failing”
Thomas McDonald has just published your go to piece for all things wise and true: I spend much of my of time reading the words and trying understand the …
“… most often when people speak of Pharisees, they are really speaking pharisaically”
Ever been accused of being a Pharisee? It’s not a pleasant thing. Ever called someone a Pharisee? If so, this piece by Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble might be relevant: I …
“It stinks to high heaven.”
This truly does: With the January deadline approaching for Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s decision on opening all combat units to women, the contrast between the Marines integration testing and the Army’s Ranger …
Meanwhile… (UPDATED)
While the media salivates over the latest faux leftist outrage at the University of Missouri, while Christians express their outrage against Starbucks and their red cup campaign and while Ben …
“He’s going to believe what his church tells him to believe”
One of my recent posts garnered the following comment: He’s going to believe what his church tells him to believe. Of course, he has every right to be Catholic, …