Last Word

The following address is my own creation; it has never been actually been delivered to a live audience. But it could be, and should be. With appropriate changes, it could be used with equal effect […]

Let me hear you say it: Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not […]

In March the National Catholic Reporter made available some correspondence of Father Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Servants of the Paraclete, who was able to call a spade a spade even without the benefit of […]

Going into the June meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Father Tom Reese was not happy. The American bishops had not been listening to him. At their June meeting the US bishops […]

Roy Bourgeois doesn’t want to be a member of the Catholic Church— at least, not the Church as we know it. “I will never be at peace being in any organization that would exclude others,” […]

Even before the Pope’s apostolic constitution erecting ordinariates for Anglican converts was released, there was no question but that it had the right people pouting. Across the board, among Catholics, Anglicans, and neutral spectators, hostility […]

Canadian collector of kiddie-porn and retired bishop of Antigonish Raymond Lahey had another court date in November. This was Chapter Four of…twenty?…twenty-five? in Lahey’s serialized tumbling act of painful legal slapstick. Before the jester took […]

Now here’s a head-shaking story from the Chicago Sun-Times. A number of Chicago-area women report that, in a period from the 1940s until the 1960s while they were in public high schools, they were required […]

The website bears an aptly unwieldy name: “Think before you speak. Don’t say ‘That’s so gay.’” A project of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, the campaign employs posters, print ads, and videos with the […]

Sister Fran Ferder, FSPA, deplores the fact that the apostolic visitation of religious sisters is unlikely to involve a holy exchange of spiritual goods on the model of Mary’s visit to Elizabeth. Writing in the […]