Opinionated Catholic

Well what can you say to this except as Rod Dreher says thank goodness for the First amendment that FOR NOW offers Americans religious some ...

What a issue and post to try to get back into more active blogging. The Louisiana Catholic Church has a crisis down here dealing with the se...

Over at Patheos there is is a post  Popes Should Resign More Often  that is worth a read . One Priest from South Carolina has registered s...

There was interesting article up at the Associated Baptist Press by George Bullard All denominations should care baptisms are down among Sou...

And in a double wide at that ! There are so many inspiring things happening in the Archdiocese of Atlanta . See this very good story Sister ...

One of my favorite Louisiana reporters and columnist  Mark Mosley has a rather scathing piece on Governor Bobby Jindal's Religious Liber...

I differ from most people that think telemarketers and pollsters should have a place in hell reserved for them where the flames burn a littl...

I am getting more invested all the time in finding a sweet spot that reconcile LGBT rights, freedom of association , religious liberty , and...

There is some evidence of a Pope Francis effect on converts in Arkansas .  This is seen among folks from " bible churches " an...

Continuing with our 2014 folks that are entering the Church this Holy Saturday a nice story from San Francisco . See Homeless man awaits Eas...

In my early college days I converted to Catholicism so I take great interest in folks coming into the Church on Easter Saturday. I hope to h...

Law Prof Greg Sisk had an interesting post up at MOJ yesterday. See T he Spirited Debate About the Role of Government and Religious Liberty ...

I am going to talk about the " Religious Left " and the First Amendment hopefully later today. However I wanted to update my last ...

There is no doubt that as to some core First Amendment issues such as speech and association all of us are not consistent as we might like t...

It might seems strange to some that after posting so much the HHS contraception mandate , religious liberty , and the " Hobby Lobby cas...

Cenlamr has a good blog post up about some rather important events that happened at Louisiana College this past week.  See Louisiana Colle...

A very good article at Public Discourse . See If a Company Can Be African American, Can’t It Be Religious? The Hobby Lobby cases will be ...

An interesting legal issue has arisen in Louisiana dealing with a wide diverse list of issues from Louisiana tourism , medicare expansion, t...

Rod Dreher for lent is going through Dante's Purgatorio, the second book in Dante’s Divine Comedy trilogy , for Lent via his blog. He ...

I actually feel a tad in the land of the living today so I can work on my goal of blogging more during lent. I have been far more on twitter...

If you have watch LSU games you might have notice the LSU player that does the kickoffs doing the sign of the cross before each kick. ...

Since Tuesday I have been pretty much sidelined by a nasty respiratory infection that has been going around. Bone shattering coughs , fatigu...

I am becoming more and more concerned that the use of discrimination laws are having a dangerous impact on some fundamental civil  liberties...

In the debates over bakers , wedding photographers and gay weddings there is a constant argument. It goes well did they do a wedding of some...

Last mights veto a bill that did amendments to the the AZ version of the RFRA was maddening on how the AZ bill was characterized. How the me...

The death of a rather famous snake handling preacher has been in the news. I find my self in sort of the same position as this writer in hav...

Robert Delahunty's , Associate Professor at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota , has a rather disturbing article about events in Den...

Ann Althouse highlighted a interesting case  that is being considered to Supreme Court Review. See "[W]atching his hair fall to the fl...

I am a general fan of Southern Baptist Russell Moore whose columns have engaged me on various spiritual , political , and social levels. One...

Appears it might be a mistake to rely on European law in the future . See Belgium’s kiddie euthanasia law and Roper v. Simmons .