Patriotism

Reminds Us of Why Memorial Day Matters

05/25/2015 at 9:24 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By James Carafano, Daily Signal If any day is more than just a day, then Memorial Day is it. Sometimes remembering just one soldier reminds us why. His name was Lawrence Gordon. He grew-up on a hard-scrabble farm in Canada. After Pearl Harbor, he decided to join the American Army. The... read more

The Cost of a Free Republic

05/24/2015 at 8:35 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Jackie Gingrich Cushman, Townhall, May 21, 2015 It's Memorial Day week. You can tell as you flip through the local paper; Memorial Day notices appear as sales headlines and attention grabbers. "Memorial Day Sale" and "Pre-Memorial Day Sale." Pretty soon, we'll see post-Memorial Day sale... read more

Notes from a Beachhead

05/24/2015 at 8:34 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By James Kushiner, Executive Director, The Fellowship of St. James Memorial Day would never be the same for me after 2010. I was in Rome, my first time ever out of the United States on an American holiday. The day before I had worshipped at the Church of San Teodoro, named for the fourth-century... read more

Patriot Graves

05/24/2015 at 8:34 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Gary Bauer, AmericanValues.org Monday marks Memorial Day, a national observance first known as Decoration Day. The first Memorial Day was observed on May 30, 1868. Flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Initially meant as a time... read more

WHITEHEAD: KICK OPEN THE DOORWAY TO LIBERTY: WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

04/12/2015 at 10:01 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
“The greatness of America lies in the right to protest for right." —Martin Luther King Jr. By John W. Whitehead -  Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. Free speech, religious expression, privacy, due process, bodily integrity, the sanctity of human life,... read more

Netanyahu Echoes Churchill, While Obama Channels Chamberlain

03/07/2015 at 7:28 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Timothy H. Lee, Center for Individual Freedom, March 5, 2015 Today, Barack Obama appears curiously frantic to finalize a similarly worthless paper treaty with the malevolent nuclear aspirant Iran. As with Chamberlain, Obama's admirers applaud in fealty. As they say, history may not repeat... read more

Christianity was central for founders

02/15/2015 at 6:04 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Christianity was central for founders   (Letter to the editor of the Daily Herald) Was America founded as a Christian nation? The most vocal proponents of a completely secular state necessarily cherry-pick data to prove exaggerations while discarding inconvenient details. They would... read more

THORNER/O’NEIL: PART 2 – EROSION OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: THE GROWING CANCER

02/02/2015 at 2:49 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Nancy Thorner & Bonnie O'Neil -  The United States was founded on Christian principles and values, largely because those who fought and died for our freedom were devout Christians who understood and deeply believed that God blesses those who honor Him. Against all odds, brave men and... read more

Japanese Attach on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

12/07/2014 at 11:28 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
At dawn we slept: Dec. 7, 1941 Published 12:00 am Sunday, December 7, 2014 By Bill Ward, Special to the Salisbury Post Few people are left who remember Pearl Harbor on this Sunday, December 7, 2014. But an event took place 73 years or 3,796 Sundays ago on December 7, 1941, that President... read more

AN ELECTION MESSAGE FROM THE MOST REVEREND JAMES CONLEY

11/02/2014 at 10:42 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY Bishop James D. Conley We are honored to have The Most Reverend James D. Conley, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, as a guest columnist to the CatholicVote.org blog.   Bishop Conley’s words here ought to serve as a guiding light for all Catholic Americans as we prepare for Election Day on... read more

America’s Bloodless Coup

08/24/2014 at 8:11 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
by RoseAnn Salanitri, Constitution Legal Watch, August 22, 2014 The American Patriot in 2014 is a frustrated human being.  Many have been sounding the alarm that our country is being torn asunder by the incompetent, the illegitimate, the opportunist, and the globalist. While all of this is... read more

Apology to Our Founding Fathers and Future Generations

07/05/2014 at 12:58 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

The Americans Who Risked Everything

07/04/2013 at 2:20 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Flag Day: June 14th – We bear it with Pride and Honor!

06/14/2013 at 9:14 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

What is LIBERTY ?

05/09/2013 at 9:34 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

White House: Father Kapaun to get Medal of Honor on April 11

04/07/2013 at 2:55 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Veterans Day 2012

11/11/2012 at 3:51 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Women in Combat

08/03/2012 at 4:00 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

What the 4th of July Means to Me

07/03/2012 at 8:19 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Catholic ‘Americanism’

05/31/2012 at 10:52 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois