May Archive

What we honor

Sheila Liaugminas | 31 May 2010

Each year when Memorial Day comes around again, America enjoys an extended weekend and a holiday filled with enjoyable activities like barbecues and picnics and recreation. The fact that we’re free to celebrate a holiday is the point of it all…

Model beauty

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 May 2010

The world is used to beautiful, glamorous models. We infrequently see them do this…

Rethink choice

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 May 2010

There’s a television commercial running these days for AT&T that seems to make a pro-life statement…..intended or not.

Time for some news

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 May 2010

It is not news that Time magazine has suffered the same cutbacks over recent years as other major media and consequently redirected their editorial energies to whatever sells in a pop culture seeking constant entertainment. It’s no surprise that translates to pop psychology and pop theology and liberal politics. But this is interesting…..

Obama’s spill

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 May 2010

Sooner or later, the monstrous oil spill gushing so hideously and uncontrollably was going to turn ugly for President Obama, personally. Seems it finally has.

Service is still the mission

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 May 2010

Can you serve the poor better by doing mission work in an impoverished region, or making a lot of money and donating much of it to many charitable causes?

Science playing God?

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 May 2010

The media are having a heyday with the news that researchers have created the first synthetic cell. Is this the beginning of man-made life?

Holy Orders

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 May 2010

A while back, the Archdiocese of Chicago ran an ad campaign promoting the priesthood and encouraging men to consider that vocation. It was pretty clever. One billboard read “If you’re looking for a sign, this is it.” Another said “Good guys wear black.” (Which is also the slogan for the Chicago White Sox…)

A humanist argument against euthanasia

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 May 2010

The false premise at the center of the ‘right to die’ movement is that it upholds the very progressive ideal of radical personal autonomy. That, however, is a marketing ploy.

“It was a fantastic miracle!”

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 May 2010

Every child is, to me, a miracle. The media are a tougher crowd though, so it takes something extraordinary that defies the odds to get their attention...

Sex, softball and the Supreme Court

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 May 2010

This is not helping the media image of ridiculous gossip-mongers, nor is it serving the causes of sensibility, human dignity……or girls’ softball.

Partners and rights

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 May 2010

Same-sex marriage activists have built a movement to re-define ‘family’ on the premise that homosexual partners are denied rights like hospital visitation unless specifically provided by law. But is that premise true?

Two things come to light about Obamacare

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 May 2010

The health care legislation that was rushed urgently into a frenzied weekend vote and passage recently was so cumbersome and unwieldy, virtually nobody actually read it. Remember Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying ‘we need to pass the bill to find out what’s in it’? Well they did, and we are.

What Kagan did write

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 May 2010

Most jurists leave a paper trail for interrogators to examine in the confirmation process when judges are nominated for advancement. We found out quickly this week that Elaine Kagan, nominated for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, had neither a judicial background nor a paper ‘trail’. But what little she wrote does provide a paperweight for senators preparing for the confirmation hearings.

Arizona heat

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 May 2010

Headline news these days tends to have at least one leading item from the ongoing political and social battle over Arizona’s new immigration law. Big media are piling on with criticism of the law and mostly for what it may hypothetically lead to. But in an honest moment, at least some of them turn around and admit that what it does…..is apply existing federal law.

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