Culture Concerns

I was taken for a heart procedure last week and brought back a few lessons that may be helpful to you. Before the procedure, I was asked if I had a living will or end of life directive.  I didn’t and my wife doesn’t know if I want to fight on or have the plug yanked [...]

I don’t know how to describe this except as evil. UK Catholic weekly “The Tablet” (which you can buy at the back of Church’s across the country) last week carried two articles attempting to justify abortion. Including the claim that “Saving the life of the mother is a proportionate reason justifying the abortion” and unbelievably [...]

This is a bit novel: games with real-life purposes and applications. A team of biologists have created a game called Fold It (at the equally clever domain name fold.it). David Baker, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher at the University of Washington, designed a game that uses human intuition about puzzle solving to help predict [...]

My daughter asked that I share information about a local pregnancy counseling center with the Catholic Dads readers. She has pulled together from a project she worked on as part of her 8th grade religion class. I told her I would if it was something that would be appropriate to this venue. I think she [...]

It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity. America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away – After America, There is No Place to Go” Next to religious and inspirational stories, this is one of the [...]

There’s an excellent column posted recently on National Review titled “Getting Serious about Pornography”. It begins: Imagine a drug so powerful it can destroy a family simply by distorting a man’s perception of his wife. Picture an addiction so lethal it has the potential to render an entire generation incapable of forming lasting marriages and [...]

Wanna save America? Save our Kids from Public Education!  If you get a chance to watch this great movie don’t miss it. And share it with your friends. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzIfTmD8UUc More information.http://www.thecartelmovie.com/cgi-local/content.cgi?g=24 Visit http://www.TheCartelMovie.com for more info. A feature-length documentary about our urgent national need for school choice, “The Cartel” shows us our failing educational system like weve [...]

After the passage of ‘Obamacare’, the protests continued from the Church who opposes the federal funding of abortion and the Tea Partiers who resist the government take-over of the health care industry.  That was met with slander and libel from the media who went after the Pope himself accusing him of  ‘touching boys’.  The Tea partiers were demonized as yelling [...]

Fr Z at WDTPRS has sent a call to take action about those who are attacking the Church in Denver.  The issue is whether the Church has the right to choose disallow into her schools those whose parents take a public stand against Church teaching. Read what Fr. Z has to say at the link [...]