June Archive

About that Supreme Court Obamacare ruling

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 June 2012

Nearly all the experts predicted it would wind up a 5-4 decision and that Anthony Kennedy would be the swing vote. They got it half right.

‘Fortnight for Freedom’ launches

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 June 2012

Never have the US bishops been so unified and fully engaged over one issue in this nation. But the HHS mandate was the bridge too far in this administration’s push to expand its control over the nation and its citizens. ‘It put our usual work on steroids’, one bishop told me on radio. It also ramped up the nation’s Catholics and their involvement in public policy like nothing has since the civil rights movement.

Obama ally turns back, again

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 June 2012

Sr. Carol Keehan and the very large Catholic Health Association network were instrumental in helping President Obama get the contentious health care overhaul passed. But his HHS mandate issued in January was a push too far, and they objected along with all the Catholic bishops. His alleged accomodation to their concerns got Sr. Keehan and the HHS back on board and gave him Catholic cover. Now, the CHA has reversed itself again. Like everyone who looked fully at the so-called ‘accommodation’ they saw that it wasn’t one.

“The vocation of being a father”

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 June 2012

We need a cultural conversation about this.

How to be a Catholic Democrat

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 June 2012

Many top Catholic scholars and members of media and public servants regretfully left the Democratic party of their fathers when the party abandoned their principles so profoundly, they couldn’t compromise such fundamental values.

What price religious freedom?

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 June 2012

Early in the film ‘For Greater Glory’ an elderly pastor, warned that Mexican federales were storming toward his church and he faced imminent danger if he did not hide in a nearby home, said he was a priest and was already home, that he belonged in the church. ”Who are you if you don’t stand up for what you believe?” That line was symbolic of the entire film and real life Cristeros War it revealed, and emblematic of the present time.

Can Ireland save civilization again?

Sheila Liaugminas | 07 June 2012

During the Dark Ages, the heritage of Western civilization would have been lost if not for heroic men and women of unconquered Ireland. Times are pretty dark right now in the West, and Ireland once again remains unfallen to anti-life barbarians. Might the Irish save civilization again?

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 June 2012

Still.

‘Gendercide’ in America

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 June 2012

More frequently these days, news stories sound just Orwellian.