In the Book of Judges, after the warriors of Gilead defeated the tribe of Ephraim, the surviving Ephraimites tried to cross the Jordan River back into their home territory. The Gileadites attempted to cut them off from the fords of the Jordan and needed a a way to determine if a person was an . . . . Continue Reading »
In response to the lead paragraph of my A Great and Glorious, But Debated, Assumption , an Eastern Catholic friend wrote of those Churches’ “refusal to bend to worldly reality”: Today is a “day of obligation” (we would prefer to say “day of precept”) for . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m goin’ out to places I have never been and seein’ things I may never see again. So, blogging will slow, as I am traveling light and keeping the trusty old laptop in the barn. However, I will be taking my neat new Blackberry Playbook. That will permit me to monitor comments and . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s more authentically SOUTHERN than most movies about the South during the Civil Rights era. So it has lot more real to. say about race, class, and gender . . . . Continue Reading »
I first realized the Canadian single payer system had terrible problems whilst in Toronto maybe 10 years ago, and seeing a front page headline that 900,000 Ontarians could not find their own primary care physician. That stunned me. Prior to then, I had urged that the USA adopt the . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephan Prothero writes a piece for CNN, asking whether or not Catholics can “abide a saint who had an abortion”? Speaking here of Servant of God Dorothy Day, who had an abortion as a young woman but went on to become one of the most prominent converted Catholics of the 20 th . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia considers the riots in England and notes that what is a daily reality in Britain will soon be America’s reality, too: It’s not like we cannot see this for ourselves. As we view security videos of “flash mobs”—unconcerned . . . . Continue Reading »
Bryan Berrey has discovered excerpts from Thomas Aquinas’s childhood journal: (Age 4) Article XXXI: Whether I stole Laurie’s apple juice during nap time? Objection I: It would seem that I stole Laurie’s apple juice during nap time. For it was said: “Thomas, go sit in the corner. And say . . . . Continue Reading »
Nation of Faith, Nation of Immigrants Public Discourse , Charles J. Chaput Divorce reform could save billions in government aid Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein Federal study explores childbearing by era Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein As Opera Struggles in West, an Art Form Flourishes in . . . . Continue Reading »
I know this is celebrity junk, but there is a kernel of importance here. Zsa Zsa Gabor is experiencing a difficult time with the kind of severe health problems and other vicissitudes of old age that one might expect in a woman of 94 years. But her (creep) husband has told CNN he wants . . . . Continue Reading »
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