Why I cringe when Pope Francis gets on an airplane

Is it the altitude? Is it free cocktails? Is it the urging of a captive media hungry for headlines? Is it a loquacious and friendly Pope who likes to freewheel and think aloud? I just don’t know. But now we are told that Christians “have to apologize for so many things, not just for this (treatment of gay people), but we must ask for forgiveness. Not just apologize – forgiveness.”

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"Would a king be born to a peasant family?"

Wise men have always looked at the heavens with wonder. For them, the night sky filled with stars represents the luminous, the utterly ineffable, the holy. With this sense of overwhelming awe, comes a question: “What lies behind it all?”

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Kudos to Marco Rubio for doing the right thing

Senator Rubio’s effort is right politically; if the GOP loses the Hispanic vote it won’t win another national election for a century. It is right philosophically; if the United States, if “America,” stands for anything it is the willingness to receive, if not to always welcome, the immigrant (more on this later).

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Why the Left will do all they can to hurt the new Pope

It really didn’t matter who the cardinals elected as the new pope. The Left, and we know who they are, hate the Church. Regardless who walked out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, there would be no honeymoon, hardly time for a hiccup, in fact, before the Left and its media goons started to bash him.

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How do Catholics love Obama? Shall we count the ways?

By Deal Hudson & Deacon Keith Fournier How do Catholics love Obama? Shall we count the ways? They love Obama, they say, because he is ‘pro-life,‘ when such a claim even emits chuckles from the reporters at the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. They love Obama, they say, because Obamacare has reached…

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Catholic Advocate comes to Des Moines

The president has a problem. He doesn’t like Catholics. In particular, he doesn’t like Catholics who attend Mass every week. Why do I make such a provocative claim? Because regular Mass attenders in the Catholic Church are more likely to embrace and honor the teachings of the Church than those who come once in a while, according to surveys. And the president aggressively opposes the Church’s teachings on Life, traditional marriage, and contraception …

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