A disciple and companion of St. Paul to whom the great saint addressed one of his letters. Paul referred to Titus as “my true child in our common faith”. Not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, he was noted in Galatians where Paul writes of journeying to Jerusalem with Barnabas, . . . . Continue Reading »
The news today is that Pope Benedict XVI is calling on priests to enter the blogosphere and upload their ministry. The official statement is “The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word.”Evangel readers probably don’t need much . . . . Continue Reading »
The expansion of the GOP’s “Big Tent” to include ideas that social convervatives find distasteful is inevitable in today’s political climate. But I never would have suspected that Republican politicians would feel comfortable enough to champion themes and techniques that are . . . . Continue Reading »
Some good ones are to be found in the latest issue of Perspectives on Political Science. . . . . Continue Reading »
More me thinking about the state of education in America through the historical and theoretical sources of our present discontent: The central object of Lockean education, the rational control of nature, begins with the defective natural constitution that originally plagues all children, . . . . Continue Reading »
Have you noticed that all the Democratic attorneys general who’ve announced they are not running for Congress this year? The latest: Beau Biden in Delaware. You know it’s a bad year for a party when a state attorney general isn’t trying to get a better job. . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been trying to not post about global warming today, but it has been hard. Over the last several months, the entire facade of the “scientific consensus” has been exposed as more about politics than science. And in the wake of NASA’s claim that the last decade was . . . . Continue Reading »
It was and is a game changer. Citizens United v. FEC has changed, or should we rather say, re-established the ground rules. A corporation, whether it is non-profit or a for-profit, can speak against issues and the candidates who hold those positions.(a) Although the First Amendment provides that . . . . Continue Reading »
I knew that global warming hysteria had badly infected Europe several years ago. Secondhand Smokette and I sojourned in France and countries Nordic. We met a friend who is a diplomat for a European country. He really hated President Bush, surprisingly, not because of Iraq—he thought we . . . . Continue Reading »
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