Katherine Infantine

“Senator [Rand] Paul’s tax plan has a problem for which there is no inoculation,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column . Paul’s flat tax proposal would cut taxes on high earners while raising taxes on middle-class families. Using the  Tax Policy Center’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Celibacy of homosexuals can be compared to the celibacy of “women who knew they would never be able to marry because the lives of too many of their country’s men had been claimed by the Second World War,” says Aaron Taylor in today’s column . The divine call is discerned in . . . . Continue Reading »

The University Bookman has put forth a summer reading list which includes David Mills’ review of What Happened to Sophie Wilder Even though this book tells of a young woman’s conversion to Catholicism, a subject of natural interest to a convert, it is not a book I would have read, . . . . Continue Reading »

Christopher Jackson joins the conversation about the question “Why are there Calvinist Baptists but no Lutheran Baptists?” in today’s column : There are plenty of Lutherans who interact with evangelicalism, but they do so by laying aside their Lutheran theology. They come to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Cardinal Dolan calls the faithful to fortitude “even to the shedding of your blood,” says William Doino Jr. in today’s column , yet the archdiocese is still paying for contraception and abortion. “The intricate arguments they make about cooperating and not cooperating . . . . Continue Reading »

Since 1938, Finland has issued a maternity pack to expectant mothers that includes clothes, sheets, and toys, and for many newborns, the box it all comes in is their first bed. The tradition is now “an established part of the Finnish rite of passage towards motherhood, uniting . . . . Continue Reading »

The Catholic Church’s deployment of the language of “human rights”, thanks to Pope John XXIII’s encyclical  Pacem in Terris , says George Weigel in today’s column , has helped magnify its moral voice in world affairs. The universal resonance of  Pacem in Terris . . . . Continue Reading »

The public health vacuum created by the Supreme Court, says Clarke D. Forsythe in today’s column , will continue to threaten the lives and health of women and enable more Kermit Gosnells to operate “house of horrors” clinics: Because the Justices foolishly believed that . . . . Continue Reading »

The God of the Qur’an is a very different God from the God of the Bible, says Gerald R. McDermott in today’s column . There simply is no command to love one’s neighbor in the Qur’an. One can talk about love for neighbor in the Islamic tradition , but not as something commanded . . . . Continue Reading »

Scriptural literacy, says Elizabeth Scalia in today’s column , rests on a nuanced understanding of the traditional family. Tobit’s themes of exile and rejection, marital strife, separation anxiety, thwarted intimacy, and the wish for death make for a timely read in light of Smith’s . . . . Continue Reading »