As foreign ministers of the 29 member nations of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), gathered in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of this largest military alliance in the world,...
US-based Tony Magliano looks at what would happen if governments considered Catholic Social Teachings or even general morality when formulating their budgets. The result would be nothing less than eradication of hunger in the...
Imagine you’re sitting in front of your doctor, and he says that your health definitely needs to improve. He then looks you square in the eyes and says, “If you wish to live a...
US-based Tony Magliano looks at the ugly and immoral reality of racism – and it seems to be on the rise “See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be...
US-based Tony Magliano writes as he would have wished the State of the Union speech to have been… My fellow Americans and fellow citizens of the world, the greatness of a nation is not...
In the more than 30 annual Washington, D.C. Marches for Life I have participated in, I always think the current march is the largest ever. But since accurate figures are hard to come by,...
Christian Living / Crisis / Magliano / War and Refugees
by Tony Magliano · Published January 11, 2019
Blaming huge numbers of violent killings, assaults, sex crimes and drug overdoses on undocumented immigrants, President Donald Trump in his first prime-time speech from the Oval Office said, “This is a humanitarian crisis, a...
Church / Magliano / Peace & Justice
by Tony Magliano · Published January 1, 2019 · Last modified December 26, 2018
The leader of the Catholic Church firmly teaches that our Gospel-based faith has a wealth of wisdom to offer the often corrupt world of politics. And that it is our duty to strive to...
by Tony Magliano · Published December 24, 2018 · Last modified December 21, 2018
Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24, 1968) the crew of Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and began circling the moon – the first time in history for humans to visit another world....
Many years ago as a young man born and raised in Baltimore, I spent a very different week getting a taste of life in Appalachia.
Church / Feast Days / Jesus / Magliano
by Tony Magliano · Published November 24, 2018 · Last modified November 19, 2018
As we approach the end of the liturgical year, it’s appropriate that the church designates the last Sunday as the Solemnity of Christ the King; for it calls to mind the last day of history, when Christ the King of the universe will come in all his glory to judge the living and the dead.
On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918 an armistice was declared, effectively ending one of the worst conflicts in history — World War I. On November 11...
