Palin on Catholics, Canada, and Congress

BY Register Columnists

Three Commentary Columns

October 12-18, 2008 Issue

The Register’s Oct. 12-18 commentary section includes three stories about Sarah Palin:

“Did Sarah Cut Catholics?” by Warren Throckmorton. Since Gov. Sarah Palin has arrived on the national scene, claims have proliferated that she engaged in draconian budget cuts aimed at needy and... READ MORE

‘Palin Power’ Reaches Into Canada, Too

BY Pete Vere

October 12-18, 2008 Issue

The Sarah Palin political phenomenon is spilling over the border and into Canada. Not because she hunts moose — a favorite pastime of many Canadians, the present author included — but because she offers principled leadership on life and family issues. In short, she inspires Canadians concerned... READ MORE

Did Sarah Cut Catholics?

BY Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.

October 12-18, 2008 Issue

Since Gov. Sarah Palin has arrived on the scene, claims have proliferated that she engaged in draconian budget cuts aimed at needy and vulnerable people.

Case in point: Numerous bloggers have claimed that Palin cut funds to Catholic charities. The idea made at least one mainstream source, as well.... READ MORE

Down, Hero Dad and Palin

BY Leticia Velasquez

October 12-18, 2008 Issue

In the wake of the financial debacle where the wiles of Wall Street, with the cooperation of politicians, undermined the economy of this nation, there is a growing cynicism about the possibility of anything worthwhile coming from Congress. Their approval rating is at an all-time low. Enter two... READ MORE

The Centrality of Sacrifice

BY Father Dwight Longenecker

October 5-11, 2008 Issue

Watching Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto is not for the fainthearted or squeamish. Set among the Mayans in the 16th century, the film portrays their customs of human sacrifice with unsparing realism. Heads roll, blood spurts, victims scream as the cruel priests kill thousands in a vain offering... READ MORE

Denver’s Partisan Theology

BY Mark Shea

October 5-11, 2008 Issue

Well, the Democrats had their moment in the sun, and it mostly proved to me that, though the faith finds no natural home in either party, one party is really working overtime to make clear that the faith is unwelcome.

The trouble is this: America is still the home of millions of Christians. So... READ MORE

New Plan at Priests for Life: A Thrust to Victory

BY Father Frank Pavone

September 28-October 4, 2008 Issue

It was early 1994. I had been national director of Priests for Life for several months and was sitting with my first full-time employee, Sue Finn. I had one small office, a few donated computers, a fax machine and a few thousand dollars.

“What is the vision you want Priests for Life to... READ MORE

A Year of St. Paul in the Age of Relativism

BY Christopher Cuddy

September 28-October 4, 2008 Issue

Pope Benedict XVI launched the Year of St. Paul on June 28 during vespers at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. Thus began a new year with an ecclesial focus on Christianity’s most prolific apostle.

Interestingly, less than a week prior to the commencement of the Pauline Year, the Pew... READ MORE

Myth No. 5:  Atheist Aid

BY Father Thomas D. Williams, LC

September 28-October 4, 2008 Issue

Atheists often claim to be “just as moral” as religious believers. Christopher Hitchens, for instance, in God Is Not Great, offers his rather vague and subjective assertion that no statistic will ever find that atheists “commit more crimes of greed or violence than the faithful.”

Yet, when... READ MORE

Sheep Without a Shepherd

BY Mark Shea

September 21-27, 2008 Issue

Recently, a Democratic Party shill actually spoke of the “breakthrough” in the Democrats’ abortion platform with a straight face: “For the first time, the Democratic Party is using ‘reduce’ and ‘abortion’ in the same sentence, and for the first time, it talks about the decision to... READ MORE

What Imperfect Parents Know

BY Melinda Selmys

September 21-27, 2008 Issue

I grew up in Brampton, Ontario (lovingly nicknamed “Bramladesh”), at a school with more Singhs than Smiths, and I know a lot of women from Southeast Asia. A common refrain among them is that it is so difficult to have children here. Back in India, they would happily have given birth to five or... READ MORE

A Tale of 2 Down Syndrome Babies

BY Paul Kengor

September 21-27, 2008 Issue

John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate was a masterstroke, if for only one utterly decisive reason: It suddenly, overnight, energized the pro-life vote, the 2000 and 2004 “values voters” that twice made the difference for George W. Bush.

McCain had struggled to ignite... READ MORE

Palin Family Values and the Abortion Debate

BY Joan Frawley Desmond

September 14-20, 2008 Issue

Perhaps the most absorbing element of this election season is the spectacle of abortion activists and media analysts grappling with both Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to spare the life of her Down syndrome child and her teenage daughter’s decision to continue her pregnancy and marry the father of... READ MORE

Pelosi v. Augustine

BY Paul Kengor

September 14-20, 2008 Issue

"Our hearts are restless until they rest in you."-St. Augustine

The Catholic Church is facing a major scandal. This one involves the destructive disregard for innocent, unborn human life by Catholic public officials in America. No matter what your political persuasion, from favoring big government... READ MORE

A Dream Of Obama

BY Donald DeMarco

September 14-20, 2008 Issue

Last night I had a dream in which I was trapped in an elevator with one other person, none other than Barack Obama. As best as I can recall, our conversation went as follows:

BO: “Looks like the elevator is stuck. I can’t be stuck in an elevator at a time like this.”

DD: “We could be here... READ MORE

The Dictators of Relativism

BY Mark Shea

September 7-13, 2008 Issue

Show me a person who cannot distinguish cleverness from wisdom or a good brain from a good heart, and I will show you somebody who is a fool.

These words to live by returned to mind a few weeks back when I read a complaint piece on Apocalypto by a scholar specializing in Mayan civilization. She... READ MORE

It Is in Love That We Are Made

BY Melinda Selmys

September 7-13, 2008 Issue

Why would anyone decide to have more than two children? More than one, fine: The baby needs a sibling to play with. Three, maybe, if there’s an accident. But four or more? What are you thinking?

It is impossible to answer this question without looking at the meaning of parenthood — maternity... READ MORE

Disorder in Canada: The Morgentaler Mess

BY Donald DeMarco

September 7-13, 2008 Issue

My wife asked me, shortly after Architects of the Culture of Death was published, why I did not devote a chapter to the notorious abortionist Henry Morgentaler. It was a good question. I had thought that Morgentaler, the prime mover in the complete dismantling of all legal protection for the unborn... READ MORE

Federal Court Rejects Parents’ Rights

BY Gerald J. Russello

August 31- September 6, 2008 Issue

A Massachusetts federal appellate court has refused to overturn a decision that is potentially disastrous to the ability of parents to raise their children in accordance with their religious beliefs.

As previously reported in this newspaper, last year Parker v. Hurley dismissed a case brought by... READ MORE

St. Paul’s Modern Virtues

BY Mark Shea

connecting the dots

August 31- September 6, 2008 Issue

We’ve been looking at some of the ways in which St. Paul battled for the Gospel against the powers and principalities in the heavens, as well as against a host of earthly foes. In this last part of our series, let’s note a few basic principles that Paul exemplifies.

Caesar’s Job Is Earthly... READ MORE

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