Listen to the Students Now

1. Nice new video from ND Response, with very articulate students speaking for themselves.

2 Powerhouse sermon by Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, at the Mass of Reparation for sins against human life (a Mass requested by NDU alums in his diocese). He is particularly critical of complacency and the desire for respectability. Didn't Uncle Screwtape write something about the same thing?

3. Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon will miss out on the experience of addressing thousands of NDU graduates who would no doubt have listened to her every word, rapt with attention. As a consolation prize, she gets to deliver an address to the Holy Father on human rights. There are honors, and there are honors.

4. Here's Part Two of the analysis of the racist origins of American "family planning" policies.

5. Fr. Edward Oakes, SJ, asks the question is whether the President can be converted on abortion. He finds hope in the President's evident discomfort in being compared to Sen. Stephen Douglass, Abraham Lincoln's old "pro-choice" nemesis. And, since First Things is into conversions today, they imagine the turn-around of Michael Fox on stem cell research.

6. Maggie Gallagher points to hardball politics by same-sex "marriage" supporters in New Hampshire, threatening political retaliation against real marriage supporters (original story here). And she asks precisely the correct question -- why do we think that the brass-knuckles crowd will break out all magnanimous once SSM laws are passed?

7. College campuses (especially "Catholic" ones) tempted to permit a showing of the "V Monologues" should promote instead the "Vitae Monologues", a play about the effects of abortion on women and men.

8. Here's the answer that will appeal to Americans -- let's make torture safe, legal and rare.

9. On the Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Holy Father calls for more holy married couples.