By Kurt Kondrich
There has been much media coverage and international uproar over the release of the CIA “Torture Report,” and many policymakers have expressed a high level of outrage over the tactics used to interrogate suspected terror detainees.
Recently, a meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life occurred in Vatican City. It was suggested by some members of the Academy prior to the meeting that there could be a bit of “fireworks” due to the questionable statements that had been made by Academy President Archbishop Rino Fisichella during the previous year.
As another year closes, we take a few moments to reflect upon the blessings bestowed upon us. We offer a prayer of thanks for our faith, for the power of Our Lord, and for the people who have helped effect change. And we look forward to a year filled with many more blessings a year where we hope to see lives spared, hearts opened, and souls saved.
Though we may hear news stories that disturb us, let us not lose perspective. There are stories we rarely hear, stories of torture that happens every day in our country. We cannot forget the tiny cries that come from mouths that have been silenced all too soon.
By Kurt Kondrich
Recently my beautiful 11-year-old daughter Chloe Emmanuel who has Down syndrome met with Santa Claus when he drove through our neighborhood on a fire truck.
Freedom is a word used and abused on a daily basis a word used for people’s own selfish purposes. But Christ came here and died for us, for a freedom many don’t understand. So what does this word really mean?
By Mark Davis Pickup
During a November 4, 2014, university panel discussion in Indiana on the topic “Life versus Choice,” Wesleyan professor Gregory Fiebig stated, “This is our belief, that life begins at conception.
In many things in life it’s prudent to have a backup plan a contingency for when things may not go as you had hoped or expected. Such is not the case when it comes to the life of a child. This child, created in the image and likeness of God, is a human being from the very moment he is created. Emergency contraception can take his life. And that is no backup plan.
By Johanne Brownrigg
In a recent edition of Canada’s National Post, Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian woman, wrote about the rampant practice of female genital mutilation (FMG).
By Rey Flores
This past year has seen race relations decline as a result of a well-orchestrated attempt by a corrupt government that wants to divide us at all costs.
We’ve heard a lot about excessive force lately. But, in reality, those who fight day in and day out for preborn babies know all too well another meaning of excessive force. We see each and every day the slaughter of countless babies, yet this lawful practice is allowed to continue. What can be worse than excessive force perpetrated upon the smallest and most innocent of all?
Receiving the body of Christ nourishes the mind, body, and soul. Communion must be received with reverence and upon a soul free from mortal sin. Our clergy cannot take this responsibility lightly and must teach the importance of this from the pulpit. For if they do not, who will?