Mary Rose Somarriba

A religious goods company in Rhode Island finds the suffering economy isn’t causing a loss in its sales but a spike. “When times are tough, more people seem to go to church,” said Brian Cavanagh, the chief executive officer of Cavanagh Co. He said sales of the company’s . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel covers a recent address at Cambridge University by Fr. Christian Troll, “a key figure in the Catholic-Islamic dialogue launched by Pope Benedict XVI’s September 2006 Regensburg Lecture.” . . . . Continue Reading »

Australians looking skyward this evening will be greeted by a ” celestial smiley face “—thanks to the prime positioning of Venus, Jupiter and a waxing crescent moon, report good-humored astronomers. Local astronomers said that Venus and Jupiter had appeared side by side in the . . . . Continue Reading »

A book is “a means of transportation through the space of experience, at the speed of a turning page,” the poet Joseph Brodsky once said. “But now that the rustle of the book’s turning page competes with the flicker of the screen’s twitching pixel, we must consider the . . . . Continue Reading »

Now that Thanksgiving weekend has passed, it’s time to get cracking! Let FT take take the pain out of Christmas shopping this year. Check out Joseph Bottum’s piece on children’s literature , John Wilson’s survey of the books of 2008 , and timeless book recommendations from . . . . Continue Reading »

Chances are you know at least one atheist who finds religious views foolish—the very idea of believing that God became man or that a virgin gave birth is hogwash, they think. But even while many of these people can’t imagine believing what we believe, they never the less treat religious . . . . Continue Reading »

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Dreading the Thanksgiving-dinner arguments on religion and politics? Resistance is futile. Just accept the inevitable and start them yourself. Slate provides some ideas here for dinner-table disagreements on politics. As for religion, First Things has dished up some ideas sure to spark lively . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, the Scripture readings I heard in church—no doubt the same readings preached to countless other Christians across the country—reminded that Christ is king, that he will return at the end of time to restore his kingdom. That, although he humbly entered Jerusalem on a donkey and . . . . Continue Reading »

Today on our homepage you’ll find Wesley Smith’s essay on euthanasia, commenting on its win in Washington this month. If you’re hungry for more bioethics and haven’t read it already, be sure to read Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson’s ” Stem Cells: A Political . . . . Continue Reading »