The Gulf Coast is suffering from the effects of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav. Many are homeless and have lost nearly everything. When disaster victims need a hot meal or information, they know that they can always count on the truck with the big Red Cross.

This is a wonderful video with a powerful message, produced by Grassroots Films. It has already appeared on many of the best Catholic blogs…

Some babies do survive their abortions…. If abortion is the backstop to failed contraception, as the U.S. Supreme Court admitted in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, doesn’t that make infanticide the backstop to failed abortions?

You just can’t make this up. We are surely in the silly season. Of course, Pilate was not a governor and, as the Curt Jester rightly points out, even if he was and there is a comparison to be made, there are plenty of Democrat governnors. Jay Anderson at Pro Ecclesia * Pro Familia * [...]

Today is the 7th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

It is a day I will never forget. I was in New York City a few months before the attacks. My mother and my brother and sister-in-law (then living in New York City) were also there and had brunch at Windows on the World only two short weeks before the attack.