Bishop Jean Laffitte, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, warned in a recent interview against emphasizing only the sexual dimension of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body when deployed as a catechetical resource. The problem, Laffitte explained, is that an exclusive focus . . . . Continue Reading »
Sunday’s New York Times ran an op ed by Warren Buffet, ” Stop Coddling the Super-Rich ,” in which The Oracle of Omaha chided our legislators for failing to tax the rich at sufficiently high rates. He points out that he paid nearly than $7,000,000 in taxes last year. Sounds like a . . . . Continue Reading »
New Criterion art critic James Panero has curated what looks to be an interesting exhibition of portraits of injured U.S. service personnel. Too often artists use military injuries or deaths as mere fodder for the next piece of political art. That’s not the case here . The exhibit will run . . . . Continue Reading »
For his column this week, David Mills considers why Protestants tend to disregard the Assumption : The Assumption of Mary is a difficult matter, from the Protestant point of view, because the traces and hints in Scripture are not easily found, unless you assume that they are there to be found, . . . . Continue Reading »
One reader responds to my “On the Square” column for today, A Great and Glorious, but Debated, Assumption , with the old Bultmannian criticism about the alleged incompatibility of the Ascension (against which it’s usually made), which he extends to the Assumption, with . . . . Continue Reading »
A professor of the “politics and philosophy of food,” named Chad Levin, advocates for vegetarianism in a distinctly political advocacy paper in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ironically, given what he writes, he claims that his vegetarianism is not . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Well I’m sorry that I won’t have Pawlenty to kick around anymore, but he ran a campaign that deserved to run aground. 2. I’m looking forward to Peter’s treatment of Perry, at least partly because it will help relieve me of having to form my own opinion . . . . Continue Reading »
“A less confrontational, more pragmatic force is behind a record number of anti-abortion laws and pro-choice’s ‘bad year’” So says the Christian Science Monitor in a profile of my friend and former boss, Charmaine Yoest: Yoest, the president and chief executive officer of . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Anderson addresses one of “evangelicalism’s least developed doctrines”—the theology of the body : Renewed evangelical interest in the body has perhaps been most evident—and problematic—in our teaching about sex and sexuality. Starting in the 1970s, . . . . Continue Reading »
On Truth and Trade: Economics and the Catholic Vision of the Good Life Dappled Things , Bernardo Aparicio García, Robert T. Miller, and John C. Médaille Perry, Prayer, and Politics Public Discourse , Justin Dyer Bring Back Stigma City Journal , Myron Magnet Mass Appeal: The secret to Rick . . . . Continue Reading »
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