The Dark Gulf Before Us Fr. George W. Rutler, Crisis The Pill vs. An Apple a Day Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture Billboards & Atheist Overkill Liel Liebowitz, The Daily Mind the Gap Yuval Levin, The Weekly Standard The Revolutionary Anti-Modernism of Prince Charles Rod . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ll be in Chicago from Wednesday evening through very early Saturday morning at the Hotel Intercontinental on Michigan Avenue. It’s the last of our SCIENCE OF VIRTUES grant-recepient conferences. Among the duties we’ve been given (in the spirit of science) is to make a brief . . . . Continue Reading »
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1. It will be a victory for Romney if he gets significantly more than 30% of the vote in AL or MS. I have my doubts. 2. Sean Trende is explaining on RCP than in the Republican primaries DEMOGRAPHY is trumping MOMENTUM. I could quibble with the details of Sean’s social science, but the basic . . . . Continue Reading »
There is no place in a society based on human equality and the sanctity of life for lawsuits that ask juries to determine that a baby was wrongfully born. Such a case just came down in Portland (why am I not surprised), Oregon, where a jury awarded $2.9 million against doctors for failing to . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t see that either Romney or Santorum are offering a fully realistic and prudent strategy for getting the budget under control. So that’s why I’m hoping against hope for a contested convention. I look at the Ryan budget as the rightmost plausible conservative reform . . . . Continue Reading »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation took out a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday that seems to generally represent the position of certain advocates of the contraception mandate, advocates whose encyclopedic ignorance of Catholic Christianity startles. Written as an “open letter to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Diocese of Fargo, ND has obtained permission from the Vatican to continue inverting the order of the sacraments of initiation from currently-accepted norms. According to the National Catholic Register : Over the past seven years, the Diocese of Fargo has changed the typical order of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Matt Milliner comes this delightful story of a young boy who asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house for his dog: Wright designed Berger’s family’s California home in the Marin County town of San Anselmo, prompting the then-12-year-old Jim Berger to ask his dad if Wright would . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on the First Things “After Liberalism” Seminar : On February 27th and 28th some twenty scholars, as well as First Things editors and assorted auditors, met to discuss the question of whether liberalism has a future—and what comes after liberalism. Three essays served . . . . Continue Reading »
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