“Reasonable Catholicism is reasoned loyalty, or sometimes even loyalty with gritted teeth ,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square,” The Reasoned Loyalty of Catholicism . That kind of loyalty brings insight. She begins with John Henry Newman as the great . . . . Continue Reading »
Always penetrating and provocative, my good friend Patrick Deneen has, once again penetrated and provoked, this time in a brief essay entitled ” Is There a Conservative Tradition in America? ” Here’s his summary of what seem to constitute the “core commitments” of . . . . Continue Reading »
Name: R. Albert Mohler, Jr.Why you should know him: Oft-quoted for his views on cultural and religious issues. Time.com called Dr. Mohler the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.”Denomination: Southern BaptistPosition: President and Professor of Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
An video interview and a written interview with the Australian writer Melinda Tankard Reist, leader of a new activist group working against the sexualization of girls and society. The first deals more with the issue and the second with the practical details of her campaign against . . . . Continue Reading »
A lot of SHSers have written to me about this and I think it is worth highlighting: A public row in the UK has raised the fearful meme that we should be allowed to kill children with disabilities who are suffering. From the story:Television pundit Virginia Ironside prompted outrage yesterday after . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino, who with Ronald Rychlak wrote Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis for us, made a striking point in a message about the need to stand up not just for the pope for for others so slandered: There is a line in the fine film, A Cry in the Dark (Meryl Streep), about a woman falsely . . . . Continue Reading »
Note: This weekend a friend asked me to recommend some resources on the fine-tuning of the universe. Since I had those handy, I thought it might be useful to turn it into a post.] The heavens tell of the glory of God,” claimed the Psalmist, “The skies display his marvelous . . . . Continue Reading »
The pope denounces the “evil” of the Sicilian mafia . Benedict urged Sicilians to be “ashamed of evil, which offends God and man” and called them to bring organised crime. which “injures the civil and religious community,” into the open, reports The Daily . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans are much less sure of the existence of Hell than of Heaven. Hopefully this is because they have had such glimpses of the Divine that Hell seem fuzzy to them. There seems, however, some chance that it is because they have become too nice to believe anyone is in Hell.In chatting with regular . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a real hoot. Apparently OZ PM Julia Gillard has stated that she doesn’t see a way to create a euthanasia legalization system with safeguards that really protect. A Belgian professor—Down Under for a convention of the World Federation of Right to Die . . . . Continue Reading »
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