Amanda Fortini articulates how the problem of plenty was not actually what it seemed at all. [...] it is disappointing to watch what some have called the “year of the woman” come to such an embarrassing conclusion. This was an election cycle in which candidates pandered to female voters, newswee...

Spirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63) Human Life International e-Newsletter Volume 03, Number 41 Friday, November 14, 2008.................................................................................. Election Part I: "We Have No King But Caesar" The follo...

In its June 2008 issue, Vanity Fair magazine excerpted Thurston Clarke's book, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 Days That Inspired America, about Bobby Kennedy's short-lived - but enlivening - campaign. I started reading the article many times, but could never find the time to finish ...

Politics - more like looning around having a jolly good time!...

We can also be truly grateful that our country’s social conscience has advanced to the point that Barack Obama was not asked to renounce his racial heritage in order to be president, as, effectively, John Kennedy was asked to promise that his Catholic faith would not influence his perspective and ...

Barack Obama has triumphed despite the snide undertone of smear campaigns and the racism which dare not speak its name with the innuendo “He is not like us...” “He is not really an American” “He is a secret Muslim.” Good on Colin Powell who was so annoyed by the negative smear campaign a...

Religion News Service reports that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' plans to discuss abortion and politics next week in Baltimore have been scuttled:In a September, after high-profile Catholic politicians challenged church teaching on abortion, the bishops announced that they "plan to discus...

Thank you to Mary's Project for sending the following prayers. The prayers may be printed off by clicking here. Novena for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and for the spreading The Gospel of Life through the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Now through Thursday...

SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken, cleaned and dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch. BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change! JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he reco...

Mark Shea puts things into perspective:I think it's really easy to miss the wood for the trees when contemplating this or any American election. Yeah, I think Obama will be a lousy President. But when I consider the fact that neither he nor any President has come to office by a) poisoning his predec...