administrator (and as it happened a Presbyterian elder), was to enforce such moral standards as would render moot any criticism from outside Hollywood. Although the code identified a list of banned topics, via its “general principles” (“be carefuls”) and it

administrators of the Rockefeller Foundation, however, had no intention of subsidizing quixotic expeditions into China’s asperous hinterlands, or investigations in the new and recondite field of paleoanthropology, and so did everything they could to discourage

administrator. The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the w

Administrators mobilized to investigate. His crime? He had questioned LGBT orthodoxies. There are two observations to make about the protests in France. First, American intellectuals pride themselves for being brave free-thinkers, but for the most part they

administrators, and especially parochial school teachers. With every change these “women religious” made, symbolic boundaries between the Church and the world outside were breached. Newsweek’s reporters focused mainly on those “new nuns” who were experimenti

administrators and professors. The other reason is that the administrators and professors consider moral questions to be above their pay grade, and there is not much chance that these pusillanimous figures could be enticed to enter this particular fray. If the

administrators, teachers, and counselors. This distrust is epitomized in their attitude toward public schools: 42 percent see them as largely bad for children, as compared to 19 percent of other parents. Among the Faithful whose children go to public schools,

administrators, and insurance brokers must resist the pressure to accommodate the abortion regime, even at the cost of lucrative jobs and comfortable retirements. Christians in the military must be prepared to defy orders that would violate longstanding Christ

administrators, and parents remained there around the clock, setting up concerts, activities, and trampolines for the children. City officials threatened to shut off the electricity to our extension cords, but one of the parents, an administrator at the electr

administrator of its journalism school, the head of the website Politico, and the executive editor of the Associated Press. Not a group, by and large, likely to listen to First Things—and pick a better book. • Among the specialized but still interesting j

administrators to promote “values.” The 360-degree view includes an immensity of detail, and the details often mean more when seen together than when taken one by one. One thing that becomes clear from this perspective is the enduring influence of the colle

administrator, who will then be responsible for providing contraceptive coverage through an insurer. This, the Obama administration said, was its “accommodation” to those with moral objections to the contraception mandate. One might argue that shifting t

administrators make over $260,000 each. For forty years and counting, these executives have shown no inclination to offer mammograms. The simple reason is that economics have prevailed. Keith Riler is a financial analyst who has written for the American Thin

administrator whose job depended on poverty and the transfer of funds to the poor through the welfare system and whose nightmare was the end of poverty. National Review wrote that for this bureaucrat, “his job depends on poverty: lots and lots of surplus pover

administrator at a prestigious, big-city hospital offered without prompting to help us cross state lines for an abortion after the legal window in our state closed at 24 weeks of pregnancy. That told me everything I needed to know about attitudes within the m

administrators and deputies who makes up its managerial class. There is not much ‘center’ holding at Georgetown; precious little common frame of reference, shared culture and experience, or underlying first principles to which parties can defer debates about

administrators are to don their academic regalia and march in procession at the beginning and conclusion of the ceremony. For the duration of the event itself, they are to sit in array upon a raised podium or stage during the ceremony and addresses, a highly v

administrator who had been so supportive to Carol and myself throughout the time of her illness and who is now my beloved wife, Nilda. The Bishop of Indianapolis had visited barely hours before. Being a companion to Carol through her terminal illness was one

administrator. He has authored books in the areas of mathematics, law, computer science, and spiritual formation, as well as numerous articles in professional and trade publications. His experience with hospice includes being a client of hospice in his first

administrators, no matter how dedicated, cannot? I turn to writer Flannery O’Connor, who, though she never wrote stories about the consecrated or even ostensibly Catholic life, had a great deal to say concerning the intersection of invisible and visible, of gr

From the Washington Post: President Obama vowed last week to rein in the use of a legal privilege that allows the administration to discard lawsuits that involve "state secrets," promising that a new policy is in the works that will quell criticism by civil li

From the L.A. Times: Reporting from Washington -- President Obama will nominate federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York to the U.S. Supreme Court today, according to White House sources, positioning the longtime federal jurist to become the first Latino memb