by Jody Brown, Charlie Butts, and Bob Kellogg
The Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of Christian graduate student Julea Ward, who almost three years ago was expelled from a university counseling program for her religious beliefs. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
According to Paul Rondeau, executive director of the American Life League, “This administration treats Catholics as useful idiots” and generally undermines religious freedom. Read more…
Wednesday the United States Supreme Court delivered a knockout blow to the White House in the cause of religious liberty.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a unanimous court swatted away the government’s claim that the Lutheran Church did not have the right to fire a “minister of religion” who, after six years of Lutheran religious training had been commissioned as a minister, upon election by her congregation. Read more…
Exceptionally popular Catholic speaker, author, and internationally renowned biblical scholar and theologian is visiting San Diego. Read more…
by Juncal Cuñado and Alejo Jose G. Sison
Do religious belief and practice affect the happiness of Europeans? In the first part of this two-part article, to answer our question we focused on the European Values Study. In this second part we deal with results from the European Social Survey. Read more…
In response to a recent “Orthodox” same-sex marriage ceremony conducted in Washington, D.C. by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, – who is openly gay, and married Yoni Bock and Ron Kaplan at the 6th & I Synagogue in Washington in November – over 100 Orthodox Rabbis – among them some of the most prominent rabbinic figures in the Orthodox Jewish world, including Rabbi Hershel Schachter and Rabbi Hershel Reichman of Yeshiva University and Rabbi Elie Abadie of the Safra Synagogue – issued a statement declaring that, Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Groups supporting special rights for homosexuals are urging people to boycott the campaign because the Salvation Army supposedly has a history of “discriminating” against them. But Peter LaBarbera, who heads Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), believes such protestors are missing the charity’s goal. Read more…
by Juncal Cuñado and Alejo Jose G. Sison
Europeans no longer believe in God nor go to church anymore. They don’t even consider themselves to be religious at all. It is clear, therefore, that Europe is a secularized continent. Or is it, really? Read more…
A few weeks ago Marcus commented on Russia’s enthusiasm for the coming of what is believed to be the belt of the Virgin Mary. Normally situated at the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, the relic made of camel wool is believed to have the power to boost fertility. The National Post reports yesterday that the Russian people really have come out in force! Braving cold and snow, Moscow residents were willing to stand in a 5km line just to touch the belt: Read more…
by Charlie Butts
After analyzing the numbers in the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics report for 2010, Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, concludes that there is a clear bias against religion.
“There were fewer hate crimes committed against people based on an animus toward their sexual behavior than there were committed toward people based on religion,” he reports. “So that is to say there were more hate crimes committed against people because of anti-religious bias than there [were] for anti-homosexual bias.” Read more…
The Catholic Bishops of Maryland have issued a statement, “The Most Sacred of All Property: Religious Freedom and the People of Maryland.”
Despite its title, the principles it lays out and the examples it uses are applicable to the entire United States. People of all faiths, not just Catholics, will find it a helpful defense when faced with marriage and family issues.
Read it here.
Obama’s Catholic outreach is being revealed as a transparent ploy a year before he faces re-election. A portion of the Democratic coalition — including civil libertarians and pro-choice activists — has decided to attack and marginalize Catholic leaders and institutions. And HHS is actively siding against Catholic organizations. Read more…
This article by Dr. Byron Johnson comes from the First Things website. It was published in the August 2011 edition. You have to have a subscription to get the full story, but here is some of it below.
Dr. Morse will be interviewing Dr. Byron Johnson Monday, November 7, from 7-8 pm PST on AM 1000 KCEO, or you can listen live on the Internet at www.catholicradioofsandiego.co
Tonight Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse will interview Dr. Peggy Hartshorn, the President of Heartbeat International, from 6-7 pm PST. Then, from 7-8 pm PST, Dr. Morse will interview Dr. Byron Johnson, a Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion as well as director of the Program on Pro-social Behavior, both at Baylor University. Read more…
First, the context: Modern political science — which readily understands imperialism, resistance, and clash of competing interests — does not similarly understand “the wasting away of nations.” That, says David Goldman, author of How Civilizations Die: (and why Islam is dying too), is because political scientists tend to assume that people will follow their rational self-interest. In fact, they often don’t. Read more…
Ayman Nabil Labib, a 17-year-old Coptic Christian student, was murdered by Muslim classmates after refusing to remove a crucifix he was wearing, the Assyrian International News Agency is reporting. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Atheists want a statue of Jesus removed from a remote area of U.S. Forest Service property in Montana — because of the remote chance someone might be offended by it. Read more…
The New Atheist gets all grumpy about ‘stupid’ conversions to the faith. Francis Collins – a self-described ‘obnoxious atheist’ and incredible genetic scientist – revealed the end of his own journey to God…
“I turned the corner and saw in front of me this frozen waterfall, a couple of hundred feet high. Actually, a waterfall that had three parts to it — also the symbolic three in one. At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The next morning, in the dewy grass in the shadow of the Cascades, I fell on my knees and accepted this truth — that God is God, that Christ is his son and that I am giving my life to that belief.” Read more…
By George Weigel
Two weeks into the NFL season, ESPN ran a Sunday morning special exploring why the third-string quarterback of the Denver Broncos, Tim Tebow, had become the most polarizing figure in American sports — more polarizing than trash-talking NBA behemoths; more polarizing than foul-mouthed Serena Williams; more polarizing than NFL all-stars who father numerous children by numerous women, all out of wedlock. Why does Tebow, and Tebow alone, arouse such passions? Why is Tebow the one whom “comedians” say they would like to shoot? Read more…
Editor’s Note: Last week my daughter, Moriah Mosher, who is 18 years old, traveled to Rhodes, Greece, where she addressed the Rhodes Youth Forum on the subject of “Traditional Family Values.” The Forum is an annual meeting of young people from all over the world who are devoted to the search for the common good. My daughter told the group that the common good is to be found not in the discovery of new principles for living, but in the rediscovery of God-given truths about the importance of faith, life and family. She is right, of course.
Steven W. Mosher Read more…
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