July 2016 - To Give a Defense

TO GIVE A DEFENSE

Vote Republican to stop abortion! and other myths.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • July 23, 2016 • Politics; Pro-Life Issues

Trump supporters overnumerous for mention promise, with prognostication and crystal-ball certainty, that a vote for Trump will help the pro-life cause of stopping abortion, and this matters above all. He will promote the right legislation, he will appoint the right justices. Right. Now it so happens that facts matter in this discussion, and because facts matter, I went and checked how the individual justices voted in Roe v. Wade, and then checked out who appointed them. Turns out five of the seven justices were Republican appointees. Facts matter.

Why we should pray the Luminous Mysteries.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • July 12, 2016 • Catholic Devotions

On October 16, 2002, Pope St. John Paul II added a new group of Mysteries — the “Luminous Mysteries” — to the Rosary. Hitherto there had been three groups: the Joyful Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries, and the Glorious Mysteries. These three together totaled 150 Hail Marys: originally meant to correspond to the 150 Psalms. An objection, among traditional-minded folks, to a new set of mysteries was that it would undermine this connection. John Vennari imagined the objections former popes may have had, as though he spoke for the dead.