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Why Planned Parenthood’s Response Completely Fails
As we expected, Planned Parenthood is doing its best to avoid the substantive issues raised in the recent undercover video that shows their Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, acknowledging that PP affiliates do receive money for aborted fetal body parts. They are hiding... Read more -
Marriage should amplify Christ as the divine spouse
Patrick Anthony Bergquist, 35, director of children, youth and family ministries at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan, and Dr. J. Patrick Hornbeck II, 33, chairman of the theology department and associate professor of medieval and reformation history at Catholic, Fordham... Read more -
Homosexuals Want to Have Their “Ideological Cake” and Make You Eat it Too
During Thursday’s Direct to My Desk segments we discussed the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing same sex marriage as a fundamental constitutional right. I wanted to follow up on it because there seemed to be some considerable misunderstanding. Tomorrow we should have a video... Read more -
Catholic Teaching on Marriage is Settled: Let’s Teach It and Live It
In spiritual direction, one learns quickly the difference between discussing "issues" and living the "gospel." Discussion of issues is a way to avoid actually living the life God has called me to live. As I've said before, one should have a healthy interest in church affairs. If I didn't... Read more -
Why So Much Time Explaining Pope Francis?
I received a good letter from a listener who passed along some information that most of us would find troubling. On the Pontifical Academy of Sciences sits an atheist academic physicist, Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the University of Potsdam and director of the Institute for Climate Impact... Read more -
McKinney Pool Party
As I wrote yesterday, the conflict over the proper use of authority and proper submission to authority is as old as Genesis and as young as the McKinney pool party that has provided great entertainment for millions of Americans and great product for the media who actually love this kind of... Read more -
Catholic in America: Christendom is Gone; Long Live the Christ’s Church
The Michigan Catholic May 1, 2015 Al Kresta Public relations guru Sam Singer is proud of his reputation as a cynical manipulator. In his world, power always trumps truth. Public opinion is always sweeter than authentic knowledge. Right now, Singer is pitting sacramentalized but... Read more -
Catholic in America: Politics and Misrepresentation Over ‘Conversion Therapy’
The Michigan Catholic April 17, 2015 Al Kresta Politics organizes our common civic life together. In contrast, the sciences figure out how the material universe works. Questions about evolution, global warming, the cause of dinosaur extinction (I’m told it wasn’t smoking or drinking but... Read more -
Catholic in America: Jewish Conductor Recalls Powerful Influence of St. John Paul II
The Michigan Catholic March 31, 2015 Al Kresta “Music comes where words fail” said St. John Paul II to American Jewish conductor Sir Gilbert Levine. I recently interviewed Levine and delighted in his story of their relationship and collaboration. It was wonderfully improbable and bore... Read more -
Catholic in America: Looking for Happiness? Find God. He has it.
The Michigan Catholic March 20, 2015 Al Kresta In the spring of 203, a new era in human happiness began. A young North African woman was taken into custody by Roman soldiers in Carthage, in modern Tunisia. Her name? Perpetua, 22 years old, from a good family, educated, married and nursing a... Read more