Having returned to these fair shores after an overseas trip, the end of which culminated in a total of 13 hours of flight time, it was with a general sense of relief and peace that I betook myself a seat…
When you’re out of the country as I was for the past two weeks, no matter how wonderful your destination or how glorious the sites you visit, some homesickness tends to creep in. In my case, although daily blessed to…
With the coming defection of Arlen Specter to his rightful place in the Democratic Party, all of the talk has centered on how far “to the right” the Republican Party has moved, how the “big tent” of Ronald Reagan has…
Some years ago, a priest friend of mine suggested that the legalization of same-sex marriage might be even more morally harmful to our nation than the scourge of abortion. How, I wondered at the time, could anything be more harmful…
Only mere months into the Obama presidency and already my head is spinning. Massive chasms of debt, class warfare in the streets, government takeovers of private industry and servile shows of “respect” to foreign dictators have occurred with lightning speed….
In the 1960s, the American Catholic Church, like the rest of the nation, underwent a period of tremendous upheaval. Proceeding from, though not limited to, the willful misinterpretation of the Second Vatican Council by some in the clergy, thousands upon…
Barack Obama is now in the second week of his second overseas tour in less than a year. Not content with being the President of the United States, it seems, the chosen one has seen fit to share his oratorical…
(Please refrain from following links until reading the note at the end of this piece.) They say it’s always darkest just before the dawn and that every cloud has a silver lining. It’s often easy to brush these old saws…
In America, those who exude a certain type of attraction or charisma are often christened with the sobriquet of “rock star.” For those of us who’ve outgrown the allures of the brain-shattering, soul-stealing muck that has masqueraded as music for…
