Sort of. Coming tomorrow in “On the Square”: Joe Carter reflects on the right way to teach teenagers about sex and sexual intimacy. He’s not much fonder of the “Just say no” approach as the “Just use a condom” one, and thinks they both fail in the same way. . . . . Continue Reading »
This weekend we went camping out toward eastern Ohio, in a little state park just south of Zanesville. A nice quiet place, it allowed us a chance to get away and relax, and also to engage in one of our favorite hobbies – thrift and antique shops. So on Saturday we drove up into Zanesville and . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . of St. Maria Goretti! Have you heard of the California-based Goretti Group and their upcoming race for the chaste ? . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times reported yesterday on the rampant cheating among college students and the Big Brother policies that some schools have instituted to combat it: No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student’s speaking into a hands-free cellphone to an accomplice outside. . . . . Continue Reading »
A headline on LifeSiteNews.com alerts us to the latest in an ongoing series of similarly troubling stories: “Stalemate after Nebraska Health Board Rejects Conscience Compromise for Christian Psychologists.” According to the report: Defying the recommendations of Nebraska’s top public . . . . Continue Reading »
Those who objected to IVF (before my time) on the basis that the technology would not be limited to helping infertile, married couples conceive, were laughed off as scare mongers. My how times have changed. We now have a story of fertile couples using IVF to make embryos for deep freeze . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m supposed to give a talk on the idea of the university or something along those line soon. I’m trying to get the facts in order. Here’s the first batch of several. Keep in mind this is a very rough, quick, and random draft: 1.There really is a massive contradiction between . . . . Continue Reading »
The editors of the Jewish Review of Books have kindly unlocked Jon Levinson’s “The Age of Abrahamic Religions,” discussed in today’s “On the Square” article, R. R. Reno’s Our Father Abraham . You can find the new link in the author biography. . . . . Continue Reading »
An artist died on Thursday, July 1—a man whose name you may not know but whose work you surely will recognize. His most famous painting is probably The Prayer at Valley Forge (1975), which hangs today at George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon. And if you’ve ever leafed through a . . . . Continue Reading »
The machinery of French legislative authority is going into motion to pass a law that will ban the full veil in public , with a vote scheduled for July 13. Put forward by President Sarkozy, the ban was originally opposed by the Socialist Party. But the Socialists, who represent the main opposition . . . . Continue Reading »
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