I remember watching the movie Glory, a story from the American Civil War based on the personal letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who was the commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal unit of the US Army to be made up entirely of African American men. Shaw insisted that the men were worthy [...]
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Gosnell’s Pro-Life Last Choice
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on May 14th, 2013
Who Laughed During the Roe v Wade Arguments?
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on January 22nd, 2013
It is a little known fact that there was laughter in the United States Supreme Court 40 years ago during the Roe v. Wade hearings. Thought to be the youngest person ever to win a Supreme Court case, then 26 year old Sarah Weddington, the attorney for “Roe”, briefly lost her composure in a choked bout [...]
Why I Think You’ll Like Jennifer Fulwiler’s ‘Minor Revisions’
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on December 13th, 2012
Sooo…Jen has a reality show that debuts tonight. It’s called Minor Revisions. While Jen found it a little bit awkward to tell you about this new mini-series of hers, I’m tickled pink to tell you why I think you’ll love the series. She gave me a little sneak preview since we both engage with atheists and we [...]
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No Comments »St. Christina the Astonishing and the Holiday Stinkiness
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on November 23rd, 2012
Alright, let’s face it. Is this the time of year, just after Thanksgiving, when you start dreading the impending “Holiday (Don’t call it Christmas) Season?” You know, the season of nightly news stories about how schools won’t allow the display of Christian symbols, the already beginning onslaught of commercialism and advertising, the atheist sloganeering that [...]
Posted in Politics Tags: Christina the Astonishing, church, face, permission, Season, smell, St. Christina No Comments »Why is the Church Political?
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on November 20th, 2012
This is the third and final in a series taken from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s essay, “Theology and Church Politics” published in a 1987 book Church Ecumenism and Politics: New Endeavors in Ecclesiology. In it he explains what theology is, what the relation of theology is to the Church, and what the relation of the Church is [...]
Posted in Politics Tags: basis, cardinal ratzinger, Church and State, freedom, relation, separation of Church and State, Society, theology No Comments »The Natural Order of Church and University
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on November 19th, 2012
This is the second in a series taken from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s essay, “Theology and Church Politics” published in a 1987 book Church Ecumenism and Politics: New Endeavors in Ecclesiology. In it he explains what theology is, what the relation of theology is to the Church, and what the relation of the Church is to education [...]
Posted in Politics Tags: beginning, church, Church Ecumenism, faith, knowledge, theology, Theology and Church Politics, Today No Comments »Explaining Reason: Atheism or Christianity?
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on November 14th, 2012
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now our beloved Pope Benedict XVI, devoted much writing and attention to questions such as this, not in isolation, but as they relate to academics and civil societies. In an essay, “Theology and Church Politics” published in a 1987 book Church Ecumenism and Politics: New Endeavors in Ecclesiology, he explains what theology is, what [...]
A Mother’s Promise to the Nation
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on November 7th, 2012
I know I speak for many, many other mothers out there this morning and I know they would say the same thing I am about to say. The United States has just elected Barack Obama to a second term as President. News reports tell us that the narrow victory may have hinged on the women’s [...]
Posted in Politics Tags: American women, Barack Obama, blood, contraception, free contraception, freedom, lady parts, morning, way No Comments »Will the Elections be Delayed?
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on November 1st, 2012
Many people are wondering whether the devastation of Hurricane Sandy will cause the national elections next week to be delayed. The short answer is yes, but it’s not really so simple. The decision to delay elections is made by the states. The Blaze has a summary of the some of the state laws, it’s more straightforward in some [...]
Posted in Politics Tags: Answer, Congress, Craig Fugate, Election Day, emergency, FEMA, national election day, national elections, state No Comments »Why are Catholics Praising the Nobel Prize Stem Cell Technology?
Posted by Stacy Trasancos on October 15th, 2012
It’s been all over the news lately, particularly in the Catholic and conservative spheres, how Dr. Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in medicine for reprogramming adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). People praised this research for creating new pluripotent stem cell lines to study without creating or destroying embryos. They claimed that the [...]
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