Trump to negotiate with Congress over pro-life protections in health plan

President Trump initially shifted on the Hyde Amendment. EWTN News: U.S. bishops and Catholic pro-life organizations will be watching to see if President Donald Trump’s health care plan includes pro-life language. Trump has faced criticism over the past week from pro-life activists after he urged Republican lawmakers to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment when negotiating extensions… Read More Trump to negotiate with Congress over pro-life protections in health plan

January 17, 2026January 22, 2026 SDH

A Quiet and Extraordinary Power 🌸

By my friend Vermavkv @WordPress. In life, one person stands out—my mother. She represents love, resilience, and guidance. As I think about the [Wordpress] prompt, “Describe a person who has positively impacted your life,” her influence comes to the forefront of my mind. Mothers, often the unsung heroes in the background of our lives, possess a quiet… Read More A Quiet and Extraordinary Power 🌸

December 15, 2025December 17, 2025 SDH

Operation Resurrection

Updated | Activism, Uncensored | Racket News Special Report. “The Trump Administration’s decision to end most enforcement of a federal law prompts Randall Terry’s return to the front door of an abortion provider Ford Fischer | Dec 11, 2025 In the late 1980s and early 90s, Randall Terry was well known as the founder of… Read More Operation Resurrection

December 11, 2025December 12, 2025 SDHLeave a comment

Dorothy Day and Catholic Tradition

“A major area of distress for [Dorothy Day] in the 1970’s was what seemed to her the erosion occurring in the spiritual life of her fellow Catholics, including those in the Catholic Worker movement. More than ever Catholics seemed attentive to social issues she had been raising for forty years, but they were increasingly neglectful of the… Read More Dorothy Day and Catholic Tradition

October 10, 2025October 13, 2025 SDH

G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics

Neither Socialism nor lassez faire CapitalismOctober 1, 2001 | By Mark and Louise Zwick The following was a talk given at the American Chesterton Society annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 2001. Dorothy Day and G. K. Chesterton were contemporaries. Both came into Catholicism in the 1920’s, Chesterton in 1922 at age 48… Read More G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics

September 29, 2025September 29, 2025 SDH

The Binding Force of Tradition

Fr. Chad Ripperger writes, “The juridical concept of the deposit [of Faith] requires that it is not the property of the guardian. In other words, it is not the person who receives it that has ownership of it, but of the consigner who is handing it over to him to keep it in a safe… Read More The Binding Force of Tradition

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 SDH

The Assisted-Suicide Danger Zone

Kathryn Jean Lopez June 23, 2025 8:37 PM. National Review. Our good friend in these parts, health-care-policy expert and delight Sally Pipes, CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, writes in Forbes: Advocates say these laws spare the terminally ill from unnecessary suffering. But a closer look at Europe and Canada—where physician-assisted suicide has been legal and common for… Read More The Assisted-Suicide Danger Zone

June 24, 2025June 24, 2025 SDHLeave a comment

Archbishop Sheen. A Word to Humanists.

Must listen talks given by the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen during the season of Lent in 1944. These recordings come from the radio addresses he gave on the Catholic Hour program. Talk 1 – A Word to HumanistsTalk 2 – A Word to SinnersTalk 3 – A Word to the SelfishTalk 4 – A… Read More Archbishop Sheen. A Word to Humanists.

March 18, 2025April 28, 2025 SDH

Dorothy Day’s Cross

“For a more Christian view of life, the best books I have run across are “In Defense of Purity” by Dietrich von Hildebrand … the Encyclical on “Christian marriage” by Pope Pius XI, and the “Nuptial Mass” in the Missal.” — Dorothy Day. Her Faith was ever the same.. The Distributism Review. Dorothy Day wrote, “I… Read More Dorothy Day’s Cross

January 30, 2025February 21, 2025 SDH1 Comment

Karl Keating: Catholics & American Life

— from Part II of the Catholics & American Life Symposium. New Oxford Review. January-Febuary 2025. On Christmas Day 1886, 18-year-old Paul Claudel — raised Catholic but delinquent in his faith — was listening to vespers in Notre-Dame de Paris. It was an event that “dominates my entire life,” he later recounted. “My heart was touched, and… Read More Karl Keating: Catholics & American Life

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 SDH

Not to Worry, Positivist Elon Musk Will Save Us

…and all of human civilization —-from inevitable mass extinction events through his eventual self-sustaining multi-planetary space outposts, first on Mars, beginning (if all goes well) in approximately two years, and then from much farther outposts ‘out there’ in space over time. For the first time, Musk says, in the Earth’s approximately 4 & 1/2 billion… Read More Not to Worry, Positivist Elon Musk Will Save Us

January 13, 2025February 14, 2025 SDH

Fetal Tissue Vaccines: 12 Faulty Assumptions

Fetaltissue.org. 2021. | “Fetal tissue vaccines are the everyday means by which pro-lifers unawares develop some complicity in an industry they oppose. Our aim is to accessibly summarise the relevant facts regarding fetal tissue vaccines — which are obscured behind a veil of academia and technical jargon, concealing from the public legitimate moral & ethical… Read More Fetal Tissue Vaccines: 12 Faulty Assumptions

December 15, 2024December 20, 2024 SDH

Continual Conversion in and towards Christ Daily

CCC 2784: “The free gift of adoption requires on our part continual conversion and new life.“ Philippians 1: 6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5: 24 The one who calls you is… Read More Continual Conversion in and towards Christ Daily

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 SDH

Mark Groubert On the Whittaker Chamber – Alger Hiss Case

“Whittaker Chambers is best known today as the veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.’s words, “the most important American defector from Communism” when he testified against members of his underground Communist cell in the 1930s. Yet Chambers did more than reject Communism: He revealed a key problem with modern liberalism. In… Read More Mark Groubert On the Whittaker Chamber – Alger Hiss Case

May 18, 2024May 19, 2024 SDH

Elderly pro-life activist sentenced under ‘Freedom’ of Access Act

Elderly pro-life activist sentenced to over two years in prison under FACE Act (CNA) Joan Andrews Bell, a 76-year-old Catholic and pro-life activist, has been sentenced to over two years in prison for her involvement in a “rescue” at a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic. In addition to Bell, three other activists — Jean Marshall, 74,… Read More Elderly pro-life activist sentenced under ‘Freedom’ of Access Act

May 15, 2024May 16, 2024 SDH

Explaining the Cycle of Ireland’s Constant Destruction. John Waters.

Ireland. So, you asked me,“Where’s it going?” Well, it’s pretty dark… Evil, in a strange way, brings us together, forces us to discover strands of commonality and fellowship in our seemingly divergent cultures. When I was growing up, the particularities of my homeland, Ireland seemed to function as a barrier to connections with other places.… Read More Explaining the Cycle of Ireland’s Constant Destruction. John Waters.

February 20, 2024February 20, 2024 SDHLeave a comment

Del Noce on Liberalism & the Scientism of Marx

“The order marked for destruction can be summed up in one word: Europe—the intellectual and spiritual synthesis of Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. The new totalitarianism proceeds by negating every form of transcendence, especially the religious truth and universal reason which Del Noce calls “Platonism.” It reconceives reality as “a system of forces, not of values.” Being… Read More Del Noce on Liberalism & the Scientism of Marx

December 28, 2023December 28, 2023 SDH

The Temptation to Escape The Cross

Brother Gabriel of St Mary Magalene, 1953, writes, “There are many who desire to make progress in the spiritual way and constantly entreat God to draw them and let them advance to this state of perfection [the state of union], but when it pleases God to begin to bring them through the first trials and… Read More The Temptation to Escape The Cross

December 1, 2023November 21, 2024 SDH

Psychedelia, Beat, Folk, Rock’n’roll…and Us

A fascinating look at the devolution of culture and the arts over time through the lenses and timelines of Beat, Folk, and Rock ‘n Roll. Superseding orthodox Marxism and other political and social movements, theBeat Movement was the ovum of all later decadent movements in both cultures and music . The Encyclopedia Brittanica defined the… Read More Psychedelia, Beat, Folk, Rock’n’roll…and Us

November 27, 2023September 1, 2025 SDH

What are we to make of Jesus Christ? by C.S. Lewis.

“THIS IS A question which has, in a sense, a frantically comic side. For the real question is not what are we to make of Christ, but what is He to make of us? The picture of a fly sitting deciding what it is going to make of an elephant has comic elements about it.… Read More What are we to make of Jesus Christ? by C.S. Lewis.

October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 SDH

Pelosi says abortion is Democrats’ ticket to victory in 2024, accuses Republicans of ‘disrespect for women’

Updated. Nancy Pelosi vowed to reverse the end of Roe v. Wade ‘one way or another’ By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., urged her fellow Democrats to put the abortion issue front and center in their 2024 campaigns, arguing Republicans will lose big on the issue across the country. Pelosi appeared… Read More Pelosi says abortion is Democrats’ ticket to victory in 2024, accuses Republicans of ‘disrespect for women’

June 26, 2023June 27, 2023 SDH

Catholic “Chat” with Bing AI About the Future, Family and Gender

I “asked” Bing AI about those who see the traditional family as “a social structure of oppression” and who suggest that the dissolution of the traditional family might or would be a good thing for the world. I asked about those who say boys and girls, men and women, are becoming obsolete categories making room… Read More Catholic “Chat” with Bing AI About the Future, Family and Gender

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 SDH

The Ukraine War, the Pope, & the West

The Imaginative Conservative.Victor Orban interview excerpt. “… the Hungarian position was that there was hardly any chance that there could be a winner in this war. It will have losers, but it won’t have winners. “Russia is coming up against a brick wall, and as NATO is supplying Ukraine with weapons and money, it’s simply… Read More The Ukraine War, the Pope, & the West

May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 SDH

Sidewalk Evangelism

By Italy specialist Shannon I’ve always been drawn to Italy’s places of worship because of the stories of controversy and intrigue hidden in their elaborate sculptures, paintings and façades. For my Art History degree, I studied in Florence and attended lectures in churches and basilicas throughout Italy. There I learned that when you’re seeing a… Read More Sidewalk Evangelism

April 27, 2023May 2, 2023 SDH

Bill Gates: His Know-how of Future Markets

Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life. — Vandana Shiva. By Vandana Shiva, originally published. by Independent Science News. The following excerpt is from Vandana Shiva’s new book Oneness vs. the 1% (Chelsea Green Publishing, August 31, 2020) and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. In March 2015, Bill Gates showed… Read More Bill Gates: His Know-how of Future Markets

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 SDH

Doctors Fight Laws That Would Force Them to Help Kill Their Patients

“In addition to reducing the number of days between requests for assisted suicide, California’s new law also added new requirements for medical professionals. While the law says that no one is “required to participate” in the suicide “for reasons of conscience, morality, or ethics,” Theriot and Cochrane say that is not exactly true. They argue… Read More Doctors Fight Laws That Would Force Them to Help Kill Their Patients

February 4, 2023February 5, 2023 SDH

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