During the recent presidential election, the issue of in vitro fertilization , or IVF, came up. Many Democrats and Republicans came out...

It’s not uncommon to hear someone say something like “Years ago, people were more trusting. People left their cars unlocked. Hitchhiking...

The following editorial appeared in the November, 2011 issue of The Homiletic and Pastoral Review. Thanksgiving by Fr. Kenneth Baker,...

Winston Churchill once said “Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it.” Many of the problems we now face as a nation are...

One day, probably in 7th or 8th grade (1962-64), I came home from my Catholic grade school for lunch and complained to my mom about one...

In 1916, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, opened her first birth control clinic. In her Autobiography, she says she...

At the beginning of the 1956 movie, The Ten Commandments, director Cecil B. DeMille prefaces the film with his own comments: “The subject...