Worship & Religion

My Empire State is overrun with radical love and selfless service

My Empire State is overrun with radical love and selfless service

My Empire State is overrun with radical love and selfless service

Young women taking vows to be espoused to the Lord, Jesus Christ, on Fifth Avenue in New York.Pope Leo meeting with young people in Assisi, the birthplace of one famous man named Francis.
Boy George’s free speech moment before becoming subject of attacks

Boy George’s free speech moment before becoming subject of attacks

Boy George’s free speech moment before becoming subject of attacks

Michael Marlowe recalled his son chose no to run.Jake Marlowe was murdered at the now infamous Nova music festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. He had been working as a security guard there and was one of 14 British citizens who were killed by Hamas terrorists.
Participating in assisted suicide would be evil and a scandal

Participating in assisted suicide would be evil and a scandal

Participating in assisted suicide would be evil and a scandal

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne exist to love patients in their Rosary Hill Home in the suburbs of New York City as Christ himself. As assisted suicide goes into effect in Kathy Hochul’s Empire State, that seems to mean: to crucify him again.
Reject evil of antisemitism: There’s no Christians without Jews

Reject evil of antisemitism: There’s no Christians without Jews

Reject evil of antisemitism: There’s no Christians without Jews

Considering some of the things that are said on social media today, “I recognize you as the firstborn of Satan,” may not sound like much of an insult. But coming from a religious man in the second century, it carries weight.
Reliving American birthday observations over the years

Reliving American birthday observations over the years

Reliving American birthday observations over the years

It was 100 degrees as the sun was setting and a toddler with red curls was running toward the Ferris wheel on the National Mall, part of the national State Fair for America’s 250th birthday. The kid was trying to get my attention – he seemed to like being the center of things.
Real Declaration of Independence, declaration of protecting life

Real Declaration of Independence, declaration of protecting life

Real Declaration of Independence, declaration of protecting life

This July 4 marks the 250th birthday celebration of the United States. It’s also the day we may begin federal taxpayer funding of the abortion-giant Planned Parenthood again.I know, I know. You may be confused. Hasn’t this White House been described as the most-pro-life ever?
The Sacred Heart of Jesus compels our love for every life

The Sacred Heart of Jesus compels our love for every life

The Sacred Heart of Jesus compels our love for every life

It’s not every morning that you wake up looking down at Independence Hall. It just happens to be the room you got at the cheaper option on a hotel discount app when swinging by the Constitution Center for the Becket Fund’s annual dinner.
This Independence Day, stand up for the most vulnerable

This Independence Day, stand up for the most vulnerable

This Independence Day, stand up for the most vulnerable

If you’ve ever seen the clearest and bluest of the Atlantic in the Caribbean, you have a sense of what the weather has been like in Washington, D.C., in recent days. I haven’t been here in a while, but it sure welcomed me back well.
The more we celebrate life, the more it will help end abortion

The more we celebrate life, the more it will help end abortion

The more we celebrate life, the more it will help end abortion

There’s a fury on the right about the Trump administration’s refusal to roll back Biden-era mail-order abortion-pill dispensing. The Biden change was supposed to be a COVID thing.Anyone who has ever paid any attention to life could have guaranteed you that was not the endgame, however.
We remember Bob Woodson and the message that remains necessary

We remember Bob Woodson and the message that remains necessary

We remember Bob Woodson and the message that remains necessary

Conservative civil rights leader Robert L. Woodson Sr. died in his sleep at 89 on May 19. He wrote “The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today’s Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods,” published in 2007, a book whose message remains timely and necessary.