Nathaniel Peters

Last week I mentioned Br. Lawrence Lew’s multi-part essay on the theology and metaphysics behind Gothic cathedrals. By now parts 2 , 3 , and 4 are all up, so have a look if you’re interested. . . . . Continue Reading »

Grassroots Films and CatholicVote.org have teamed up for another thought-provoking video: . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at the New Liturgical Movement, Br. Lawrence Lew, O.P. provides a helpful, brief introduction to the theology that helped produce Gothic cathedrals. A sample: St. Thomas Aquinas famously said that “pulchra enim dicuntur quae visa placent”, “beautiful things are those which . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier I mentioned parts I and II of Daniel Patrick Maloney’s series at Public Discourse on reducing poverty by reducing the number of poor children. In part III Maloney, a former FT associate editor, examines the Medicaid policies that result from this belief and how they could be changed. A . . . . Continue Reading »

Poor Sarah Palin, Joan Vennochi writes today in the Boston Globe : Even though she has no shot at the presidency, Republicans and Democrats still fear her and attack her. And her teenage daughter, apparently. Right across the New York Times editorial page from Nicolas Kristof’s column on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Gay activists have waited for the man they voted into office to throw them a bone, and none has come. So they’re going to start mounting the pressure for him to act, says the New York Times today. The article mentions that Obama could appoint a gay man or woman to fill Justice Souter’s . . . . Continue Reading »

If you’ve ever wondered just what happens behind the scenes of an opera company, especially one as grand as the Metropolitan, check out Judith H. Dobrzynski’s article in the Wall Street Journal . A sample: If you have never understood why an old saying calls opera “the most . . . . Continue Reading »

Is the East Coast more lustful than the West? Greedier? When you look at the seven deadly sins mapped across the country , the East Coast and the South turn out to be the most prideful, which in these charts meant the most sinful, period. But the charts only factor in reported crimes, which might . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier I mentioned part I of Daniel Patrick Maloney’s series at Public Discourse on reducing poverty by reducing the number of poor children. In part II, Maloney, a former FT associate editor, looks at transcripts from Senate Finance Committee hearings in the 1970s and argues that the . . . . Continue Reading »

According to a recent Pew Forum poll , the level of support for abortion has dropped: Between August and late October 2008, the proportion supporting legal abortion ranged from 57 percent (in mid-October) to 53 percent (in late October), before declining to 46 percent currently. Though opinion . . . . Continue Reading »