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Twenty five years ago when a handful of St. Louis women gathered to publicly defend Catholic Church teaching, the immediate topics were feminism, abortion and women’s ordination. Within a couple of months and many enthusiastic letters from faithful Catholic women, we understood a national organization was in the making, Women for Faith & Family:

WFF Beginnings
In September 1984, six St. Louis women gathered around a dining room table to discuss their concern that the US bishops, who had announced their intention to write a pastoral letter on the subject of “women’s concerns”, might not receive an accurate picture of Catholic women. The women were concerned about the impression given in the media that most Catholic women feel “alienated” from the Church, and dissent from Church teachings on issues ranging from abortion to ordination. They were aware that feminist theology had influenced many women and Catholic leaders. They wanted to…

Boston College student paper The Heights ran a 2/12/09 story about the

crucifix/Giotto

sudden appearance on the Jesuit campus of multiple crucifixes and icons, Crosses Meet Mixed Reacton:

Students and professors may have noticed a few changes in the Boston College atmosphere upon returning from winter recess: a fresh blanket of snow on the landscape, the removal of holiday decorations, and crucifixes hanging above chalkboards in every classroom. This University initiative with the intention of promoting Christian art throughout campus has received mixed results from both faculty and students…..

Winter recess? Does Jesuit Boston College really want us to be reminded of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia where the evil White Witch has cast a spell so that Narnia is always winter and never Christmas?

And are crucifixes merely art?

There has been much comment about the return of the crucifixes.  Various reactions have been recorded by the Boston Herald, Boston Globe,  Massachusetts’ Worcester Telegram and Massachusetts TV station WBZ.

If you’re wondering why crucifixes…

Ever since 1973, the year of Roe v. Wade, I’ve followed the histrionic ravings of NARAL, NOW and other professional abortion supporters. as they attempt to frighten enlighten the public.

I’ve read their websites, watched their vulgar marches, perused their op/eds and letters-to-the editor, all the while shaking my head.  Why do these people go about pleading their cause in such self-defeating ways?

As a matter of fact, four years ago I wrote an op/ed published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Tips for Pro-Choice Advocates. Yes, I was so annoyed by their ineptitude, I wrote an article giving them advice.

(If you’re interested in background to that article, and curious to see whether or not my tactic was risky, go to the Issues, Etc. archive for an audio  interview.)

I mention this because a very recent, brief Barack Obama abortion ad  Barack Obama abortion ad is in the works. After a “nurse-practitioner” intro, an announcer concludes, “As president, John McCain will…