How Will We Be Ruled?

America is once again at the threshold of another presidential election year.  The early campaigning has been done, and the voting will soon begin in primaries across the nation. The electoral process is more than an question of who will best fill the position of president, but it is a moral testing ground.  What kind

It’s About More Than Abortion

Today marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s tragic 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down the abortion laws in all 50 states, and legalized abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason, or for no reason.  The cost is almost unimaginable — almost 60 million unborn lives have

Living the Year of Mercy

The phone calls come at very inconvenient times.  This last Sunday, it came just before 10 am, when I was having breakfast.  It was the Red Cross.  There was a fire in Mount Vernon, people had been put out of their homes, and they needed somebody to go and help them out.  That person happened

Opposing Assisted Suicide in the Courts

The battle to defend life against the Culture of Death has many fronts.  The most prominent, of course, is the defense of the unborn child in the womb.  But increasingly, we must turn our attention to the end of life, where the weak and vulnerable are the targets of attack. The movement to legalize assisted