As Ryan notes , the Catholic Church, according the Pew report , has lost the greatest number of believers in recent years. But the “unaffiliated” . . . faith? denomination? ecclesial community? . . . has burgeoned to 16 percent of the U.S. population, making it “the . . . . Continue Reading »
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League (of which I am a proud member) issued a press release yesterday attacking an idiotic column by one Joe Feuerherd that appeared in the Washington Post . In that column, Feuerherd blasted the Catholic bishops of this country for supposedly telling him who to vote . . . . Continue Reading »
The Telegraph reports: An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: “I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum.” Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a new study, the ” U.S. Religious Landscape Survey .” It’s a fairly comprehensive study, coming in at 148 pages and featuring 35,000 interviews. The basic gist is that religious life and practice in America is robust, . . . . Continue Reading »
So, I’m doing a little lecturing, here and there, over the next month or so. If you’re in the neighborhood, why not drop by? (1) The first is on Tuesday, March 4, at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, at the spring conference of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics. The talk is . . . . Continue Reading »
There was a just down-right bizarre op/ed in Sunday’s New York Times . Here’s the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at . . . . Continue Reading »
Or so says t his report . There’s something fishy here. First of all, it was conducted by the United Nations. Did they offer respondents food for an “N/A” response? And why is Asma Jahangir, a UN “special rapporteur” (is that anything like a really good . . . . Continue Reading »
Are you as sick of this kind of nanny state advocacy as I am? So called “experts,”—who I have come to believe are the cause of most society’s problems—are now proclaiming obesity to be more dangerous than terrorism. From the story: World governments are focusing too . . . . Continue Reading »
George Soros is a big fan of euthanasia and assisted suicide and wants to see it legalized everywhere. Toward this end, Soros has donated millions to groups promoting the cause—which I believe to be an ultimately abandoning policy that implicitly tells people with terminal illnesses and other . . . . Continue Reading »
From the New York Times Magazine article: ” Did You Hear the One About the Christian Comedian? ” Renfroe is also a devout Christian and for about eight years has been slowly building a career as a comedian on the Christian women’s circuit. Like Mike Huckabee’s easy humor, . . . . Continue Reading »
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