by Guest Author | Mar 30, 2023 | CUP Blog, Preservation of God’s Natural Law & Democratic Republic, Religious Freedom
By Professor Timothy J.A. O’Donnell The “Triumph of Orthodoxy” (as it is known) on March 11, 843 AD marks the official end of the great heresy of Iconoclasm. More than a thousand years later Iconoclasm is being inflicted on us once again. In this essay, I will...
by Guest Author | Jan 3, 2023 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church, Religious Freedom
By Veronica Werth Adoration of the Magi, 1620. Oil on canvas, 235 x 277.5 cm. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg About two years ago, I discovered the idea of a Literary Advent. For each day of Advent, a Christmastide poem or except is read (preferably aloud). It is a...
by Guest Author | Dec 14, 2022 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church, Religious Freedom
by Lori Baxter Many children have been and are being taught that our world is being devastated by global warming and it is our fault. We have exploited the good resources of earth along with over-populating it; therefore, carbon emissions are increasing and we are...
by Guest Author | Dec 10, 2022 | CUP Blog, Preservation of Religious Liberty (and Other), Religious Freedom, Sanctity of Marriage
BY JOHN T. CURRAN Bishop Robert Barron, Chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, made the news recently. On the surface, he dished out respectable quotes decrying the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act. The Act, H.R. 8404,...
by Guest Author | Nov 30, 2022 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
by Mark Bailey This blog entry is primarily diaristic in nature and I hope my readers find some truth and encouragement in the recounting of an unpleasant encounter I have recently had. Recently my superior (I am a Dominican tertiary novice) recommended that I...
by Guest Author | Oct 25, 2022 | CUP Blog, Preservation of God’s Natural Law & Democratic Republic
by Dina Ferchmin I’m writing about this chapter of my life in the hopes that it might be useful to others who are facing the same situation that I faced when I was a pre-teen. I grew up in Puerto Rico, surrounded by people from a culture that, in my opinion at the...
