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The following is from Ed Mechmann’s public policy blog “Stepping Out of the Boat,” December 18th and is reprinted with permission. The governor of New York has announced that she will sign the assisted suicide bill into law. Since our state already has... Read More →

  The following first appeared in the Irish publication Position Papers (positionpapers.ie) on December 1, 2025. It is reprinted here with permission.   It is a truth not (yet) universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a large grievance must be in want of... Read More →

  1 The government does not have the right to kill innocent people after their birth; therefore, it has no right to license expectant mothers or their doctors to kill unborn children in the womb. A government that kills innocent human beings (except in the case of justified... Read More →

  Blossom Keepsakes is a custom jewelry company that creates “heirlooms” from “unused IVF [in vitro fertilization] embryos.”  Claiming “a deep respect for life and the incredible journey families take to create it,” they take excess embryos consigned to them from your in... Read More →

  Home Alone, the 1990 John Hughes blockbuster, has become a perennial Christmas favorite. Other American “Christmas movies” of post-modern vintage, for example Die Hard (1988) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), apart from a surface-smattering of tinsel and... Read More →

“A Penny for Your Thoughts” Brian Caulfield   With the death of the penny, another traditional saying falls by the wayside. But the upside is that our thoughts may now be worth a nickel or more. Yet, with the expected inflation of our coinage—$9.99 sales will be... Read More →

  The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American film, scripted by William Goldman and based on Ira Levin’s 1972 novel of the same name. Goldman also wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President’s Men (1976). Another of Levin’s novels was... Read More →

  A certain Catholic nun, whose name we need not divulge, has drawn upon theology to buttress her pro-choice philosophy. She argues that since God gave her the gift of choosing, she should use that gift. Therefore, in being pro-choice, she is cooperating with God. God,... Read More →

  Speaking October 16 to the Food and Agriculture Organization on the occasion of its 80th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV observed that 673 million people go to bed each night without eating.  Another 2.3 billion cannot afford adequate nutrition.  That’s 36% of the people living... Read More →

  Recently I attended a wedding in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The bride was the daughter of an old family friend. The beautiful young woman, radiant in her white wedding dress, used to be a curly-haired toddler with a Minnie Mouse doll always in her arms. The... Read More →