Personal Thoughts About Last Things
November is the month of the dead — dead leaves, dead saints, the dear, dead friends and neighbors we like to call the "faithful departed." We can never be absolutely sure...
Family
The Marathon Man
Four countries. Thirty cities. More than 60,000 miles. Almost 50 different flights. Around the world — from Chicago to Chicago — in just 30 days. It was a whirlwind flying marathon...
Rifqa Bary in Danger Again
Now that Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old Christian girl who fled her Muslim parents because she feared her father would kill her, has been sent back to Ohio, supporters of the girl...
HBO Laughs While Larry David Urinates on Image of Christ
Try to wrap your head around the hell that would break loose if the following scenario were true: The American lead character on one of the most popular comedy shows on...
Same-sex Marriage on Ballot in Maine
"As Maine goes, so goes the nation," was a popular saying in the days when Maine voted before the rest of the nation and the choice was usually Republican or Democrat....
Obama Pushing Secular UN Anti-Free Speech Resolution
Those who would accuse Barack Obama of pandering to — if not sympathy for — Islamists have been handed some powerful new ammunition. In a disturbing move, the Obama administration is...
Vatican and Traditional Catholics Meet
According to media reports, Pope Benedict XVI is continuing his efforts to return some disaffected Catholic traditionalists to the “fold.” In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre...
’60s Comic Artist Mocks Book of Genesis
That an “artist” would be accused of publicly assaulting the Christian religion is hardly news; even the obscene scribblings on display recently at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Scotland...
Boy Set on Fire in Brutal Revenge Attack
In one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, a 15-year-old Florida boy was set ablaze by five other teens in a revenge attack stemming from a dispute over a video game....
Another Honor Killing?
Police in Peoria, Arizona, just outside Glendale, are searching for a suspect in the attempted murder of his daughter. ...
Former Lesbian Lover Awarded Custody of Non-biological Children
The Montana Supreme Court has awarded custody of two children to the non-biological partner of a former lesbian couple, when the actual adoptive mother of the children went “straight.” ...
Rifqa Bary Must Return to Ohio
Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old Christian girl who fled her parents because she feared they would kill her, must return to her home state of Ohio. ...
The New Face of Psychiatry
To ensure that psychiatry “permeate every educational activity of national life” and “infiltrate the professional and social activities of [all] people” was a global goal that originated with British Brigadier General...
Michigan Mom Told to Stop Baby-sitting
It takes a village to raise a child, except when the government gets involved. ...
Don’t Cry for Roman Polanski
Even if time does heal all wounds, it certainly doesn’t make us forget all crimes. And, finally, after 31 years on the run from U.S. authorities, Roman Polanski, director, producer, writer,...