Pacquiao beats Diaz! (and why GMA should be grateful)

Diaz could and did take a lot of punishment, but it was clear, long before the fight ended, that Diaz was outmatched.

Pope prays for storm victims in Philippines

In response to news of a deadly Philippine cyclone and the resulting sinking of a crowded ferry, Pope Benedict XVI expressed sorrow at the calamity and offered a special prayer for the victims

Roe versus “Roe v. Wade”

CNA reports that Norma McCorvey will appear in a pro-life TV commercial for the first time. As “Jane Roe”, McCorvey initiated the case of Roe vs. Wade

Rethinking Pinochet (and Franco)

If Franco, Pinochet, and Salazar acted like cads, they were at least not total cads with total power, and that is what spells their difference from Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.

Vocations are reviving among Christians!

Therefore, let us thank God through Christ in His Church, and let us pray that the laborers may further increase, for it is indeed a bountiful harvest!

A prayer for vocations

…and so we need to work and pray that many more may hear God’s call to embrace the presbyterate and the consecrated life…

Why Christians should study history

In an essay reprinted on God on the Dock, Neochristian apologist C.S. Lewis noted that many people are skeptical of the Gospels for their historical element