All Entries in the "Recon" Category
Now Obama has proved it: he really is an enemy of the Catholic Church
By William Oddie of CatholicHerald.co.uk: About a year ago, I wrote a blog entitled “Why Barack Obama has to be seen as an enemy of the Catholic Church”. This was picked up by quite a few American Catholic blogs, for example this one, which reproduced the piece in full; and it attracted much favourable attention: but [...]
Outrageous HHS Final Ruling: Catholic Groups Must Cover Contraceptives
From Creative Minority Report: This is outrageous. HHS has issued its final ruling on exemptions from contraceptive coverage for health plans even in the face of religious obejctions. Too bad. And in what passes for compromise for the lunatic secular left currently running the country, they will give religious groups an extra year to comply if you [...]
All I know is that you’ve got to get mad!
Before reading on, please watch this classic two minute scene from the movie Network: WE’VE GOT TO GET MAD!!! WE CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!! This blog post comes on the heals of posting articles related to the most revered “sacred cows” of one of the worst generations of all time: Mine! Here’s the cows: 1. The [...]
Ten Fast Facts About Abortion’s Injustice and Risks to Women
From Catholic Fire: Ten Fast Facts About Abortion’s Injustice and Risks to Women: 1. 64% of women having abortions felt pressured by others.1 Coercion can escalate to violence or even murder.1,2 2. 52% felt rushed and 54% were not sure about the decision at the time, yet 67% received no counseling beforehand.1 3. 84% reported [...]
Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples
From the Family Research Center: “Married and Gay Couples Not All that Different,” proclaimed the headline of a news article portraying homosexual households as remarkably similar to married couples. “We’re the couple next door,” claimed one partnered homosexual. “We have a dog and a cat. I drive a Volvo. I’m boring.”[1] Such down-home portrayals of homosexual [...]
Contraception: Why Not?
By Dr. Janet Smith: Most people don’t know that every Christian church up until 1930 taught that contraception was wrong. There was a universal teaching against contraception within Christian churches. It was only in 1930 that the Anglican church first broke with that unbroken tradition and approved contraception within marriage for serious reasons. In 1931, [...]
Cohabitation: Ten Facts
From New Oxford Review: “Cohabitation — it’s training for divorce.” — Chuck Colson (1995) 1. Cohabitation is growing: 35 to 40 years ago cohabitation was rare; it was socially taboo. Growth by decade was: 1960s (up 19 percent), 1970s (up 204 percent), 1980s (up 80 percent), 1990s (up 66 percent), but up only 7.7 percent between [...]
When Manly Virtue Died
From Townhall: These are difficult and perilous times for boys. A distorted culture has robbed them of virtue to measure themselves against. The good once associated with masculinity in a patriarchal society has been tossed out with the bad. This, alas, is the era of feminist ascendency. Manhood is more easily mocked, satirized and derided, [...]
The pornographic pandemic – we are awash in porn
From LifeSiteNews: Note: This article originally appeared in Columbia magazine, the magazine of the Knights of Columbus, and is reprinted here with permission November 18, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a conversation with a priest in my diocese, I shared my spiritual director’s report that every other confession he hears from men involves the sin of [...]
A Real ‘House of Horrors’
October 26, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two former employees of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell have pled guilty to 3rd degree murder charges for their roles in the deaths of an abortion patient and one baby born alive during a failed late-term abortion. This is reportedly the first time that an abortion worker has been found guilty [...]
