Deciding whether to abort
LifeSiteNews has an interesting review of a study by the Vitae Foundation on what drives women to abort, place for adoption, or keep their children. First, despite efforts to sugar-coat abortion as an inconsequential decision, the study showed respondents “revealed a great deal of [emotional] conflict. Most of the respondents experienced a deep moral dilemma as they struggled with making a...
read moreWe have no choice
Planned Parenthood (you know, the group that gets $542 million from taxpayers) wants to stop using the word “choice” when referring to abortion: After polling Americans on how they feel about abortion and about the terms “pro-life,” “pro-choice,” and other language surrounding the abortion debate, the nation’s largest abortion chain is moving away from talking about abortion...
read moreJohn Roberts the Catholic
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld the healthcare law affectionately referred to by some as “Hellcare Obamacare.” Chief Justice John Roberts , what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is...
read moreLaw enslaves man, cripples and unborn hardest hit
It’s election year, and all but one of the GOP contenders have suspended their campaigns or withdrawn altogether. My decision to vote in the non-binding Louisiana Presidential Preference Poll brought with it a great many questions which I tossed around for months looking for an answer. All of the contenders claimed to be pro-life, but one stood apart from the rest. Many Catholic...
read moreMiracle at Mile Marker 7
A few weeks ago, I struggled with the my faith that God wasn’t working miracles with the same frequency and public effect as when Jesus walked the earth. When you read the Gospels, Jesus 33 years spans enough pages to read through in a couple of weeks. The authors of the Gospels also didn’t record the mundane, but the magnificent. Since then, I’ve spent some time trying to...
read moreAbout the Author
Tim Shaughnessy is a cradle Catholic who began to take his faith seriously after meeting his then-Baptist future wife. She is now the wonderful Catholic mom to his two sons. Tim has undergraduate degrees in economics and political science, and a Master’s and Ph.D. in economics. He teaches economics at the undergraduate and graduate level, and is a faculty advisor for the campus Catholic student organization.
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