Mark Misulia

Tony DiStefano has written a piece for Catholic Phoenix entitled ” Why I Am Not A Conservative or Liberal Catholic, and Why You Shouldn’t Be One, Either ,” that tries to get beyond the dividing line: To repeat: It makes no real theological & ecclesial sense to speak of . . . . Continue Reading »

Why aren’t we upset that athletes occupy the one percent? Half of all NBA players’ annual salaries exceed two-million, which is more than five times the threshold for the top one percent of household incomes in the United States. Kobe Bryant, for example, earns more than twenty-five . . . . Continue Reading »

In a piece of work that is generally representative of the popular voices seeking to expose the Church and others of traditional moral commitments in their supposed “partisanship, wonky indignation and misleading religious angst,” Soraya Chemaly writes “ I’m No Longer Catholic. . . . . Continue Reading »

Anthony Esolen, writing for Public Discourse, holds forth on the illegitimate claims that contraception advocates make about the “medical” or “health” reasons that favor contraceptive use, via America’s (and his) favorite pass-time: But the use of estrogen as contraception . . . . Continue Reading »

For readers in and around the Louisville, Kentucky locale, the CiRCE institute is proudly announcing that the winner of the 2012 Russell Kirk Paideia Prize at the conference on July 20th, 2012, is Mr. Wendell Berry: Mr. Berry, a native of Kentucky, will be honored at the Paideia Prize-giving . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark W. Leach at Public Discourse argues that, at least in the case of the selective abortion of Down Syndrome children, being pro-life is simply not enough to stop abortion: Therefore, while pro-life organizations advocate for social change in recognizing that fetuses also have a right to life, a . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend of mine once remarked that, while the redefinition of marriage does have troubling consequences for the continuity of society, what John Paul II has rightly called the “culture of death” is far more sinister, another order of evil entirely. Abortion comes to mind first for most. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Guardian reports that the new program entitled “Life Ends” will respond to the sick whose own doctors have refused to help them end their lives at home: The launch of the so-called Levenseinde , or “Life End”, house-call units – whose services are being offered to . . . . Continue Reading »

For readers in the New York City area, there will be a free screening of the new award-winning documentary, Out of the Darkness , at Immaculate Conception Church in Astoria tomorrow, March 3rd, at 1pm. In this film, Anteroom Pictures presents what is not often discussed, even among those familiar . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel has written a piece for National Review, “ What Would Father Richard Say? ”, that places Fr. Neuhaus’ work in the broader brushstroke of Christopher Dawson’s words below, words that speak of the motivation behind the entire “Neuhausian” project: If . . . . Continue Reading »