First Confessions

By the Challenger
Until a little over a year ago (I am now 24), I supported the death penalty. I thought that if you killed, then you forfeited your right to live. Then I began working with death row inmates. My compassion for the few that I met wove itself into a [...]

Speaking as an intercessor, with words addressed directly to God the Father and not to His disciples, Our Lord says, “And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so [...]

Journalists are misleading us again. The BBC reports there has been “a stem cell breakthrough” for treating muscular dystrophy. This is great news in the fight against such a debilitating disease. Unfortunately, the BBC is misleading the public by conspicuously failing to note this breakthrough involved “adult” stem cells, not “embryonic” stem [...]

In the United States, as Democrats prepare to take greater political control following the 2006 mid-term elections, let us remember to pray for them.
May they work with Republicans to promote peace and prosperity at home and abroad. Further, let them strive to act in accordance with the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, [...]

I am a proponent of the consistent-life ethic, which not only fights to promote all human life, but resists the ever-increasing influence of a culture of death. Yesterday, I read two disturbing news reports. The first story involves the murder of a baby girl born alive after surviving a late-term abortion. The [...]