A word to the wise: In making the public case for a sound sexual ethics, there are two extremes to avoid. One is the fuzzy-minded nostalgia gently mocked in ” The Village Green Preservation Society ” (” We are the Office Block Persecution Affinity/ God save little shops, china . . . . Continue Reading »
China is a true tyranny. And now, it has ordered a Muslim woman to abort her viable fetus or face the loss of her home. From the story: Chinese authorities have ordered Arzigul Tursun, who is 26 weeks pregnant, to abort her unborn child because she has two other children. She is under watch at the . . . . Continue Reading »
The following documents are useful in clarifying the truth of what Father Jay Scott Newman of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina, said in the aftermath of the November 4 election about conscience, voting, material cooperation with intrinsic evil, repentance, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece in the current Weekly Standard about Ecuador granting “rights” to nature. (I wrote this several weeks ago, but for obvious reasons having to do with all of the political news lately, it was delayed until now.) From my column:Rights, properly understood, are moral . . . . Continue Reading »
It wasn’t easy, a thicket of opposition, sometimes very threatening, from animal rights activists, impeded progress, but the new Oxford animal research center has finally opened. From the story on BBC:Four years ago, Cambridge University cancelled plans for a primate research centre, because . . . . Continue Reading »
” Life Is Short. Have an Affair. ” So says an ad campaign publicizing an online adultery-facilitation service. If you’re looking for a pithy expression of the hedonistic nihilism threatening to dominate our post-Christian age, it’s hard to improve on that tagline. Then . . . . Continue Reading »
A Tribute to Preoccupied Parents, Elder Siblings, and Longsuffering Relations (In all due Respect to their Little Angels) Playing with children is a glorious thing; but the journalist in question has never understood why it is considered a soothing or idyllic one. It reminds him, not of watering . . . . Continue Reading »
On the New Liturgical Movement today I found a recording of Carthusian chant from the film Into Great Silence . The author of the post on NLM can’t find the adjectives to describe the chant, and neither can I. It does not have the polished perfection of a professional recording, but much . . . . Continue Reading »
David G. Bonagura, Jr. of the University Bookman has written a nice review of two recent books by Aidan Nichols and Tracey Rowland that trace the theology of Pope Benedict XVI: The depth of Ratzinger’s thought . . . requires careful and measured analysis, more so now due to his elevation to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Middle East Media Research Institute , MEMRI, issued a press release earlier this week that quotes the columnist ‘Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar writing for the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam . The journalist argues that the Christian culture in Palestine needs to be preserved for the sake of . . . . Continue Reading »
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