By: Paul Murano – 11/22 I went to get my hair cut today, and walked into a shop filled with decorations of skeletons, ghosts, spiders, bats, disembodied skulls, and cemetery grave stones. When I was a kid, Halloween seemed less morbid. Do kids dress up anymore as clowns, pirates, princesses, hobos, and Superman? It got […]
By: Paul Murano – Jan. 2022 Right before the year changed from 2021 to 2022, there was a flurry of celebrity deaths. Just as ESPN was airing a tribute show to NFL coach, broadcaster, and pitchman John Madden, he unexpectedly died at 85. The networks were readying to celebrate publicly the one-hundredth birthday of Betty […]
By: Paul Murano – Nov. 2021 A conversation between A and B: a – I’m spiritual but not religious. b – Really. What does that mean? a – Primarily, I don’t believe in organized religion. b – You believe in disorganized religion? a – No silly. I believe there might be a higher power, but […]
By: Paul Murano – Sept. 2021 The question of natural law is a very important one. It has the potential to bridge the large intellectual and political gap that exists between the Christian and secular world views. In fact, it did just that throughout most of this nation’s history. Natural law is simply morality that […]
Babies illustrate for us what it means to be fundamentally human. Anthropologists tell us that the first word a baby speaks, ‘mama’, is based on the mother representing food. It’s the sound they make with their mouth when wanting milk. It’s related to the sound we still make as adults when we approve of something […]
By: Paul Murano – June, 2021 The Left was able to establish a culture of death in an otherwise Christian society through the alteration of language. At the heart of its strategy was the creation or changing of words to convey falsehood as truth, and the use of powerful mass media to spread its new […]
By: Paul Murano – May, 2021 It’s hard to believ2e so many Americans are expressing surprise at how far Left Joe Biden has turned as president. “I remember him X amount of years ago,” one typical political pundit said the other day on TV, “and he never would have said the things he’s saying now.” […]
By: Paul Murano – March. 2021 The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal government from establishing a particular religious denomination as the state religion. Eventually, this notion became known as separation of church and state. Despite the fact that “separation” is not a Constitutional concept, the founding fathers believed religious denominations should […]
By: Paul Murano – Dec. 2020 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes […]
By: Paul Murano – Sept. 2020 A Catholic nun stole the show at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last month. The Devil lost a huge battle in his efforts to stifle the truth about life. To truth-lovers, the words of Sr. Deirdre Byrne were music to their ears Wednesday. For those hiding from the truth, it was […]
By: Paul Murano – Aug. 2020 Like most people, I have a tendency to trust the establishment – of any profession. It is natural to trust. We humans begin life as babies totally trusting our parents. That trust is then extended to other family members, doctors, teachers, law enforcement and the like. It’s usually not […]
By: Paul Murano – July, 2020 Law and order is an interesting phrase. Its opposite is anarchy and disorder. Donald Trump says he is your law and order president. In today’s social climate that could be a political asset for him in an election year. But is law and order necessary? Does it restrain liberty […]
By: Paul Murano – June, 2020 In 2016, after decades of the culture of death and leftist narrative piped into our minds through the media and academia, the reign of the Left as culture molders was threatened by the election of Donald Trump. They knew they had someone who wouldn’t cower to the narrative, and […]
By: Paul Murano -April, 2020 The overall reaction to the Wuhan virus pandemic reveals the pro-life instinct in human nature. It is natural to do whatever it takes to preserve innocent human life. If that means temporarily shutting down a city, a nation, or a world, so be it. We see this instinct unfolding in […]
By: Paul Murano – March, 2020 There may be no greater difference in the two competing world views today, secular progressivism and Catholicism, than how each views suffering. As a significant part of the human condition, today’s world tends to see no value in suffering. Catholicism sees it differently. This season of Lent is a […]