Number of Views :641Being a Catholic is more than just checking a box on the occasional form. It is more than going to Mass and the occasional trek to the Confessional. Contrary to the attitudes of many self-professed Catholics, it is much more than some sort of ancestral birthright…sorry, ‘Cradle Catholics’. Being Catholic requires...
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Where Faith and Politics DO mix!
Fighting on the Secular Front
The Discipline of Catholicism
A Victory For America
Number of Views :595Secular forces in America have sought to divorce our nation from God. When Nancy Pelosi unveiled a multi-million dollar Congressional Museum, the nation’s motto read ‘E Pluribus Unum’. While this slogan appeared on the Great Seal and on coins, the United States did not have an official motto until 1956 when...
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Time to Fight Smarter….
Number of Views :376The Citizen has been deluged with email blasts – ‘Call or write your Senator about abortion in the health care bill!” “We need to call them NOW!” The Citizen lives in Connecticut. Chris Dodd, Joseph Liebermann, and Joe Courtney are his duly elected representatives. Courtney and Dodd enjoy high ratings from...
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A “Fallen Angel” touts PETA’s lies…
Number of Views :830We live in a society where we are expected to be tolerant and respectful of everyone…except Christians. We are fair game. PETA proved this once again with their latest ‘advertisement’ featuring a naked woman with wings and a halo, a crucifix held in front of her. Ms. Krupa, the model, argued...
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Some Truth about ‘Charity in Truth’
Number of Views :375The Holy Father’s latest encyclical ‘Charity in Truth’ has been quite popular among the liberal humanists. From Kennedy Townsend to far too many prominent ‘Catholics’ in public life, the cry that this encyclical is an affirmation of the policies of Barak Obama is appalling. Catholics have been the driving force for...
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Checking the President
Number of Views :353President Obama’s speech turned out to be fairly innocuous and the criticism of those who were skeptical of Obama’s motives is typically vitriolic. But those of us who distrust the president have good reason to do so. Perhaps no other administration since the days of the political machine has been so...
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Pay no Attention to the Man behind the Curtain
Number of Views :388Alexia Kelley, the Executive Director for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, has been appointed to the Obama administration. Her new job – Director of Health and Human Service’s Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. A conciliatory gesture by a president who has promised to reach out to all people? An...
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The ‘People’s Broadcasting Service’
Number of Views :313The Citizen remembers Sesame Street. The Electric Company. Zoom. And – can anyone forget Mr. Roger’s neighborhood. Fred Rodgers, a minister, is likely weeping today. PBS – once the Public Broadcasting Service – has become something much different. It has become a network that might actually have tossed Fred Roger’s loafers...
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Another Spin on ‘The Catholic Lever’
Number of Views :402According to historical record, Archimedes once said ‘Give me a lever long enough, and I can move the world’. In a recent essay, the Citizen wrote about a Catholic lever in the voting booth. Before Mass, after prayer, it is my wont to sit back and let my mind roam free...
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The ‘Catholic’ Lever
Number of Views :335When the Citizen first gained the franchise – oh so many years ago, now – you could vote for individual candidates or simply pull the ‘party lever’. With one fell swoop, this selection would automatically register all of your votes for the candidates of the chosen party. The lever disappeared a...
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