8/16/2010 – Chuck Colson – The threat to religious freedom in this country is not a hypothetical threat. It’s real, and real people are suffering as a result. When we wrote the Manhattan Declaration last fall, we warned about “the decline in respect for religious values in the media, the academy and political leadership.” An … Read more
8/11/2010 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse – I used to preach at the end of the Liturgy. It was a pragmatic decision. A good portion of my congregation didn’t arrive until after the Gospel reading. The sloppy behavior was ingrained in parish life for decades and wasn’t likely to change soon no matter how strongly I … Read more
8/10/2010 – Pamela Geller – It seems that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg invokes certain freedoms only when they serve his 2012 agenda — and freedom of speech is not high on his list. Doing away with term limits wasn’t enough (which is why we are still suffering under his no-salt, no-trans-fat regime). He … Read more
8/9/2010 – Terence P. Jeffrey – U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who ruled last week that a voter-approved amendment to California’s constitution that limited marriage to the union of one man and one woman violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, based that ruling in part on his finding that a child does … Read more
8/3/2010 – Anastasios Papapostolou – Greek-American Conservative Republican Candidate for Congress in the First District of New York George Demos appeared on Fox News recently. Demos called on The Port Authority’s Executive Director Chris Ward to immediately stop his bureaucratic roadblocks and that the rebuilding of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero must … Read more
Over at “The Observer“, the popular American Orthodox Institute Blog, Fr. Johannes Jacobse has posted some insightful observations in regards to the “gay marriage” issue. He correctly emphasizes that: “Christianity properly understood makes no distinction between wisdom found outside of the Church from that found within it.” 8/5/2010 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse – From: Gay … Read more
One gay judge invalidates 7,000,000 voters in California. 8/5/2010 – Chuck Colson – Yesterday, federal district court Judge Vaughn Walker, a Reagan appointee, overturned California’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. While the immediate impact is limited to the state of California, the consequences of this egregious … Read more
7/27/2010 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse – Sacred ground is more easily understood by European Christians than their American counterparts. Some events are so catastrophic, or prove to be so historically significant, that they transcend the categories we normally employ to explain them. These events must reference something higher to make sense to us. NAPLES (Catholic … Read more
7/20/2010 – John Griffing – If President Obama is to be believed, health care is a dwindling, finite resource that must be rationed. According to Obama, quality health care for some deprives the less fortunate of quality care. The only good health care in Obama’s worldview is that which is “redistributional.” So says Dr. Donald … Read more
7/19/2010 – Chuck Colson – Everywhere you turn, someone is warning Americans about the dangers of childhood obesity. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver toured the country preaching the gospel of healthier school lunches. The first lady has made fighting childhood obesity her top priority. While I’m all for healthier eating and exercise, I can’t help but … Read more