March 21, 2017
If there are any doubts about whether everything in life–even your work–is integrated, Dwight Clark is one of the finest examples of the truth: YES! As he was on the football field—fearless, focused, pioneering, always giving his best game—so he is in his personal life, even in the midst of his most challenging obstacle yet: ALS.
March 21, 2017
In an age of moral confusion, there are those who would suggest that the word “not” has been interpolated in several of the Commandments. It is easy to make words mean what one wants them to mean: in fiction, Humpty Dumpty did that in Wonderland and, in fact, the Anti-Christ did that in the Wilderness. Satan is clever at quoting words out of context to make them mean what they do not mean. After forty days, Christ mocked that deceit. “You
March 13, 2017
Since no one was with our Lord during the forty days he spent in the wilder
March 5, 2017
A “psychic reader” near our church has a sign telling what bell to ring for her to open the door. If I ever have the chance, I shall ask why, if she has psychic abilities, does she need a doorbell? Superstition is a sin against holy religion, and one can look for meaning in numbers to the point of excess, which is one form of superstition. But God’s historical involvement with us seems intertwined with certain numerical configurations that can be hard to ignore. Foremost among them, of course, is the number seven, but there is also
March 3, 2017
While we Catholics and Christians—and all men and women throughout the world who embrace common sense, respect for human dignity and the immortality of the human soul—gasp in horror at newly released scientific experimentation, others trample on even the most basic of natural human ethical principles, those concerning human life itself. Here’s why. According to reports in the
February 27, 2017
There is nothing new in being told that we are dust and shall return to dust. We hear it every year. Ezekiel pondered that when he saw a valley of dry bones. The answer came when God breathed, and the bones came alive again, “an exceedingly great army” (Ezekiel 37:10).
February 20, 2017
An oral tradition holds that in the course of a reception during the Constitutional Convention, the hearty Gouverneur Morris on a wager, after bowing to George Washington, patted him on the shoulder. Washington cast an icy glare at Morris, and the room fell silent. A man of grace and tact, Washington nonetheless had no patience for what he considered boorishness.
February 16, 2017
Matt Walsh, a writer for LifeSiteNews, had fun defending his prolife position against a fairly rabid accuser. A sharp lawyer friend of ours enthusiastically dubbed it “prolife apologetics!” We at Catholic Business Journal call it common sense worth remembering and a good read. See for yourself… Read More
February 14, 2017
The country of Portugal gets involved in one of their own’s beatification process, namely Sr. Lucia, who was one of the three Fatima children.
February 13, 2017
Europe and its contiguous lands were in a chaotic condition in 1240: the Mongols were destroying Kiev, the Novgorod army virtually wiped out the Swedes along the Neva River, and the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, was pillaging the Papal States using Islamic Saracens as his mercenaries.
February 8, 2017
February 7, 2017
In the margin of a public speaker’s manuscript was the notation: “Weak point. Shout.” Such is the rhetoric of those who place emotion over logic and make policy through gangs rather than parliaments. In Athens 2,400 years ago, Aristophanes described the demagogue as having “a screeching, horrible
January 31, 2017
It was a calm New Year’s celebration at Vanessie Piano Bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Something my wife, Pat, and I have enjoyed for multiple years—to hear good music, enjoy good food and the city’s uniqueness. Mass was wonderful on New Year’s Day in the beautiful Cathedral.
January 25, 2017
The No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act (HR 7), introduced by Hon. Chris Smith, R-NJ, passed the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, January 24, 2017, with a 238 to 183 vote. This legislation would permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortion.
January 24, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the day after the 44th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits federal funds from going to international organizations that provide or promote abortion. This will in turn result in the defunding of International Planned Parenthood.
January 24, 2017
During these days of transition in government, temperance in expectations is a wise policy based on experience. Calvin Coolidge said, “It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.” The Yankee farmer was frugal with words, but they were not cheap.
January 17, 2017
We do not need Einstein to tell us that time is variable, or can “bend.” A half hour having a tooth pulled is much longer than a half hour having a drink with friends. Here in New York on New Year’s Day, the Q line extension on Second Avenue was opened, saving subway commuters a couple of minutes to travel about two miles. It cost billions of dollars, as did the Number 7 extension that saved a few minutes from
January 10, 2017
Painting landscapes in the classical academies was done indoors, to “improve upon nature” the way formal gardens arrange flowers according to geometry. In the nineteenth century, the painters of
December 27, 2016
Thomas Sowell is one of the most incisive economists of our times and has been a weekly syndicated columnist for over a quarter of a century. This week he bids farewell to his readers to, at age 86, pursue other passions that include
December 25, 2016
In the days before computer screens, when parchments and wax tablets were costly, the writing on them could be scraped off and replaced with new script. That which replaced the old was a “palimpsest,” and sometimes bits of the old text could still be seen under the new.