Tom Mon

I recently visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Of course, as an abortion abolitionist, I thought of the subject often as I viewed each display.

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, a day filled with drinking, parades, lots of green, corned beef and cabbage, and too many karaoke versions of “Oh Danny Boy.”

We frequently forget about the impact that young people can have on the world, on the Church and on those deeply involved in defending the most vulnerable in our midst.

While watching American Idol recently, a commercial came on that caught my attention. An amateurish-looking home video showed two giddy, laughing teenage girls jumping on a trampoline, acting goofy.

Things are really heating up in California as Pastor Walter Hoye continues his grassroots campaign to help assure that human personhood makes the ballot in the state.

An interesting little column in Politics Daily got me thinking once again about the power of words and ideas.

Linda Gibbons, a 62-year-old Canadian woman, has been in and out of jail for the last 15 years of her life, having spent more than seven of those behind bars as a common criminal.

Current discussions on health care reform appear to be focused on the strategy of why paying for abortion with our tax dollars is fundamental to the bill’s passage by way of the reconciliation process. No, I am not kidding. I am dead serious.

A serious drought in California’s agricultural areas has sent fruit and vegetable prices soaring, but people probably don’t know much else about the situation. Well, there’s a bit of a fish story behind it.

Black clouds cover the stars and moon, and the quiet Chinese city is damp with yesterday’s rain. A point of light, small but brilliant, creeps along a misty alleyway.

On February 18, Virginia Delegate Robert G. Marshall delivered remarks at a press conference held in the state capital in Richmond.