Fear & Fatal Power During the Time of Pompey
Since the days when Mark Antony’s grandfather patrolled the coasts of the Mediterranean searching for the distinctive gilded-stemmed masts of their lightweight vessels,...
Culture
A Gay in the Life of Archie Andrews
It’s getting so you can’t trust anything marketed as family-friendly entertainment these days. Disney, a holdout against the coarsening of popular culture for...
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National Day of Prayer Clouded by Controversy
Today is the National Day of Prayer, a day set aside for silent reflection and prayer in a variety of forms. However, this...
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Minors and Violent Video Games
The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision in February of last year to strike down a...
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Day of Silence Still Sparks Protest
It isn't often that parents have occasion to protest an outbreak of silence by their school-age children, but the "Day of Silence" observed...
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Schoolgirls “Sext” Their Nude Photos
“Hard questions” are being asked this week in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the wake of the April 15 discovery that middle-school and high-school...
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Nebraska Abortion Law Challenges Roe v. Wade
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman put his signature to an historic bill April 13 banning abortions of pre-born babies beyond 20 weeks from conception....
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All for Naught: The Battle of Peleliu
Studs Terkel called World War II the “good war.” If any war could be called good, then the Second World War is at...
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Intergenerational Welfare, a.k.a. Social Security
Item: The New York Times for March 22 reported: “Now that landmark legislation overhauling the health insurance system is about to become law,...
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Helping Hands for Soldiers
“All too often Americans say they support our soldiers, but do little if anything to show their appreciation.” This statement from Clark Lamoreux...
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Warning: The Danger of People
In a recent article entitled “Say it loud: I’m childfree and I’m proud,” author Lisa Hymas suggests that the population of the United...
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John Barry: True Father of the American Navy
Who was the “brilliant child of the wind and waves” who fired the inaugural volley at the Royal Navy’s pride by being the...
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Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy
After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare...
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Warsaw and Lodz: A Tale of Two Cities
One of the 19th century’s most famous poets, Lord Byron, compressed into two lines of immortal verse an essential truth about how self-respecting...
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Dad Ordered Not to Expose Daughter to His Faith
A father in Chicago may find himself in jail, if he exposes his young daughter to his Catholic faith. Joseph Reyes is estranged...
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