Number of Views :376The Citizen is returning after pursuing other means of service. Some choices we make, some are made…
Number of Views :376The White House offers Mother Day wishes – and birth control. Another exercise in the oxymoronic posturings…
Number of Views :376A professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Saint Joseph, a college in the…
Number of Views :376Catholic teaching is more nuanced than simply relying on Scripture; it is a three legged stool of…
Number of Views :376Today’s Gospel is one I’ve always enjoyed hearing – it gives me a taste of the sheer…
The Citizen is returning after pursuing other means of service. Some choices we make, some are made for us. Some choices we made years ago and never realized it…
The White House offers Mother Day wishes – and birth control. Another exercise in the oxymoronic posturings of the ‘progressive’ humanist.
A professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Saint Joseph, a college in the Archdiocese of Hartford and affiliated with the Sisters of Mercy, has publicly endorsed the plan to make Plan B available to children as young as 15 years old. The university, the Sisters of Mercy, and the Archdiocese have taken no action. In this article, the Citizen explains why endorsing Plan B is a renunciation of the Catholicity of this institution.
Catholic teaching is more nuanced than simply relying on Scripture; it is a three legged stool of Scripture, Traditions, and the Magisterium – or teaching authority – of the Church. With the buzz about the abdication of Pope Benedict, there is a buzz about the very legitimacy of the office of the Pope. The Citizen tackles this – and the failings of the heterodoxy of Protestantism – in this essay.
Number of Views :698Today’s Gospel is one I’ve always enjoyed hearing – it gives me a taste of the sheer joy that is Christmas for Christians. Today, it served a different purpose. For some time, the Citizen has been concerned about a schism not only among Catholics but Christians as a whole – and that…
Another ‘Catholic’ politician crowns himself as a Doctor of the Church – and like Madame Pelosi – gets it wrong.
The Democratic party has excised God from their platform. Joe Stalin, Karl Marx, and Mao would be proud.
Number of Views :1090The Citizen has been engaged in a forum discussion that has turned to the debate on ‘rightwing’ Catholics and ‘leftwing’ Catholics. There should be no such thing. There are only orthodox Catholics and heterodox Catholics. Any Catholic espousing positions or supporting politicians who embrace policies contrary to the Magisterium, the Catechism of…
The Citizen ponders why some people not only haven’t accepted the new liturgy, they seem to loudly and proudly defy it.
Proportionate reasoning is a little-known tool we can employ to evaluate the best course to take when no course is clearly a good choice. Learn how it can serve as a moral compass to help us make the best decision in this year’s presidential election in this essay.