Both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal ran more or less the same editorial today. ” See No Good: Why do the Democratic candidates refuse to acknowledge progress in Iraq? ” is in the Post , and ” Democrats in Denial: The Presidential candidates won’t admit any . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of the Mirror of Justice blog, they’ve been having a great exchange on city planning, natural law, the New Urbanists, sprawl, and much more. The exchange started with Eduardo M. Peñalver’s op/ed in the Washington Post , and elicited comments here , here , here , h . . . . Continue Reading »
“He wanted to write about these cats, but the election to the Papacy foiled these plans, now he has to take care of the global Church instead of the little cats at the Via Aureli.”
From First ThoughtsRead about it here . (hat tip: MOJ ) . . . . Continue Reading »
This week’s New York Times Book Review is ” The Islam Issue .” Some of the articles are worth checking out. . . . . Continue Reading »
This article on Mormonism in the New York Times Magazine is certainly worth reading. . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter, who headed up Huckabee’s press office for the past month, has returned to his position at FRC. Over on his blog, the Evangelical Outpost , he shares some of his experiences and insights about the primaries and Huckabee’s campaign. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wall Street Journal’s Taste Page has some interesting articles this morning. One is a parent’s lament that video games have sucked the life out of his children . It contained this gem: “The other day we saw a kid at church, in a semi-trance, going down the aisle to Holy . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in August, I wrote a short article for the First Things homepage titled ” St. Duncan of Wall Street .” It was a review of the Acton Institute’s new movie The Call of the Entrepreneur . Readers might be interested in this interview about the film that Fr. Sirico, the president . . . . Continue Reading »
Rob is on to something when he says we’ll soon be living in a world where women will “have some of their eggs harvested and frozen in their twenties, spend a couple of decades building a career, and then use the eggs to become pregnant in their forties or fifties.” And . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks, Rob, that helps . I think you’re right as far as the general thrust of recent CDF statements goes (think of Dominus Iesus , or the recent clarification on the meaning of the word Church), I guess I just found your exclamation ” Take that, Karl Rahner ” to be a bit . . . . Continue Reading »
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