Helen Weir column
Helen Weir is a teacher and freelance writer currently (like Snoopy's brother, Spike) enjoying the company of the cacti of the American southwest. She belongs to the Militia Immaculatae movement of Total Marian Consecration founded by Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Hero of Auschwitz.
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September 19, 2017
"But when is it going to be our turn?" I nudged Ned, who could do no more than shrug in reply. The eagerly anticipated Question-and-Answer Period at the shiny . . .
Helen Weir
August 28, 2017
I spent a while grappling with the possibility that there was no earthquake engulfing the city; no door hitting me repeatedly for reasons which couldn't be . . .
Helen Weir
July 16, 2017
At this stage, at least one thing has become abundantly clear: to keep recapping the Talk all but verbatim like this would be far too tedious, for both of us. . . .
Helen Weir
July 1, 2017
"Because, while Amoris Laetitia chinked the armor only for the thinnest of lances, that lance was long enough to thrust through the vital chambers of the Church . . .
Helen Weir
June 23, 2017
Basking in the raucous applause he had aroused, the Speaker decided to add a little visual flourish to his point about "living forevermore in the light shed by . . .
Helen Weir
June 18, 2017
"In that lonely moment when I found myself abandoned for the second time by Richard," the Speaker mournfully continued, "I can say in all humility that a . . .
Helen Weir
April 20, 2017
I couldn't get a good look at the celebrity we had all come to hear while his bona fides were being enumerated for our edification; standing off to one side and . . .
Helen Weir
April 13, 2017
"If you're just going to stand there, let someone else sit down."
Did this abrupt interloper with the saggy jowls, heavy brows, and New-Yorked-over Irish . . .
Helen Weir
April 8, 2017
"My bad," I lied, stretching a thin grin across clenched teeth.
Now, the imprint of a dirty boot would forever mar my elegantly calligraphed Program, which I . . .
Helen Weir
January 20, 2016
I, like countless others throughout the Catholic (and non-Catholic) world, have been reeling with philosophical/theological vertigo since the recent release of . . .
Helen Weir
October 20, 2015
When the Synod on the Family 2015 comes to a conclusion, we will find out the answers to a number of harrowing questions. Will there be a final document issued . . .
Helen Weir
July 4, 2014
In the documentary "Imaginary Witness" (available to stream on Netflix), the Nazi Holocaust is referred to as the "Negative Absolute." Amidst the current . . .
Helen Weir
June 8, 2012
In his concession speech late Tuesday night, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett described Wisconsin's recall election as an "amazing experience." Not as amazing, one . . .
Helen Weir
July 28, 2011
Seventeenth Sunday in ordinary time, Year A
"Humanae Vitae: of human life"
By Father Joseph Redfern
In today's first reading from the First Book of . . .
Helen Weir
July 11, 2011
As a conservative activist in an area of the country largely believed to be a remote suburb of the Twin Cities, I am increasingly encountering a general . . .
Helen Weir
February 28, 2011
Here in the political three-ring circus known as the Great State of Wisconsin, the spectacle goes on. Governor Walker, thank goodness, is not backing down, . . .
Helen Weir
January 25, 2011
The United States of America was founded on the fundamental civic and spiritual recognition that "all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable . . .
Helen Weir
October 24, 2010
In an opinion piece posted at TheHill.com ("The New Republican Right," Oct. 22, 2010), Dick Morris makes some astounding assertions. Declaring the GOP "safe . . .
Helen Weir
October 18, 2010
It was a couple of weeks ago, on a crisp September Saturday when the leaves were just starting to turn, that I joined a few hundred other patriots for a Tea . . .
Helen Weir
September 9, 2010
Drive down the road listening to the radio these days in western Wisconsin, and you will be treated to mind-numbingly condescending, state-sponsored warnings to . . .
Helen Weir
August 31, 2010
"Well, really, you know, I am not aware of a thirst for some ready-made truth which puts an end to intellectual activity in the way you seem to be describing. . . .
Helen Weir
July 10, 2010
This past Independence Day week, Americans were treated to some real fireworks. Who ever imagined that the Executive Branch of the federal government — "our . . .
Helen Weir
June 6, 2010
"How is it possible," asked the Little Prince (in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's touching fairy tale of the same name), during one of his notable stops on the way . . .
Helen Weir
March 30, 2010
As the old song puts it, "Don't know much about . . ." well, in this case, Marco Rubio. Like most other interested non-Floridians, I am following his Senate . . .
Helen Weir
March 1, 2010
According to Barack Obama, the 8 or 9 million Americans who will lose their existing private health insurance coverage if Obamacare is finagled through Congress . . .
Helen Weir
February 6, 2010
"There's a big difference" — as Miracle Max of Princess Bride fame once sagely observed — "between mostly dead and all dead." Where the question of . . .
Helen Weir
December 17, 2009
From the First Apology of St. Justin Martyr:
We call this food Eucharist; and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching . . .
Helen Weir
November 5, 2009
NY23 — In a stunning climax to Tuesday's most closely watched political duel, Conservative Party challenger Doug Hoffman captured an astounding 45% of the . . .
Helen Weir
September 16, 2009
With Obamacare or its repackaged equivalent still looming ominously on the American sociopolitical horizon, there are few voices, at this late stage in the game . . .
Helen Weir
September 11, 2009
"I had been praying at daily Mass for Barack Obama's conversion and for the truth about his health care bill to come out," says Jean Heimann, founder of . . .
Helen Weir
July 29, 2009
"German men and women . . . Paragraph 21 of the Code of Penal Law is still valid. According to this, anyone who deliberately kills a man by premeditated act . . .
Helen Weir
April 21, 2009
We have just received the disturbing and indeed tragic news that, with Obama daughters Malia and Sasha about to embark upon the adventure of advanced childhood, . . .
Helen Weir
April 17, 2009
Perhaps you, like me, woke up on Thursday to discover that — in addition to being labeled a potential "terrorist" — you have also been classified as "anti . . .
Helen Weir
March 10, 2009
The intelligentsia has spoken. In the person of Mark A. Kay of no less esteemed a citadel of higher learning than Stanford itself, we have been provided with . . .
Helen Weir
February 11, 2009
Now that Eluana is dead, it is time to pray not only for the repose of her soul, but also for her father, Beppino Englaro. Beppino, unlike Bob Schindler (the . . .
Helen Weir
February 2, 2009
We are standing before the ruins of inner national unity, which in these last days has been brutally destroyed. . . . Can there be national solidarity with . . . . .
Helen Weir
November 5, 2008
Flicking off Fox News Tuesday night when the defeat of the McCain/Palin ticket began to look inevitable, I went to bed and lapsed into a wicked nightmare. My . . .
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