The U.S. House of Representatives is about to take a historic vote today on ending abortion for unborn children over 20 weeks old (H.R. 1797, the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act”). The bill has been sponsored in large part in reaction to the horrors of the Gosnell abortion clinic. President Obama has avoided talking about [...]
Have you ever seen the Seinfeld episode where George decides to “do the opposite”? If not, here’s a quick recap. Fed up with the direction his life choices have taken him, George comes to the conclusion that every instinct he’s ever had has been wrong. How else could he, a man in his late 30s, [...]
Did you get dad a gift yet? Either way, we have something you might want to send him. It’s our small way of saying “Dads matter.” Check it out: Wishing all of our CV dads and dads everywhere a blessed and happy Father’s Day!
Two government acronyms are forever tainted by scandal. First, the revelations of malfeasance and corruption within the IRS destroyed whatever last remnants of goodwill that agency might have had with the American people. Second, we have learned more recently learned that the NSA has been watching every breath we take and every move we make [...]
I’ve already written that nothing Nancy Pelosi can say about abortion will shock me anymore. Turns out I was wrong. Yes, her latest Pelosi Abortion Outrage™, prompted by the entirely appropriate question posed to her by John McCormack of the Weekly Standard, still came as no particular surprise to me: Asked what the moral difference is [...]
Jim Gaffigan tells jokes for a living and, lucky for him, he’s really good at it. (See the embedded video at the bottom of this post.) He’s also Catholic and has five kids, which led Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post to ask, “Is comic Jim Gaffigan the Catholic Church’s newest evangelizer?” (h/t New Advent): [...]
So, who among us is feeling more and more like St. John the Baptist? You know, the lone voice crying out in the wilderness? The fellow standing athwart history yelling “Stop!” The only woman at the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros concert without a tattoo? Okay, maybe that last one was just me last [...]
After the Dubyapalooza at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, a badly needed reassessment of former President Bush is underway. I offer my 2 cents at the National Catholic Register, based in part on what we covered at the time. For space, I had to cut one quote which I [...]
The Columbus Dispatch reports that after meeting with the principal of Bishop Watterson High School, Carla Hale gave a press conference to her fawning supporters in the media vowing to “continue her fight” against the Catholic Church. Far from being a private matter between two consenting adults, Hale has elevated this issue to a public [...]
Who ever said you can’t mix business and pleasure? This Thursday, President Obama will deliver the keynote address at an annual gala for the undisputed world leader in making unwanted babies “disappear”: Planned Parenthood. The President revels in spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on Planned Parenthood every year ($542 million last year), and [...]
