The cruel article I posted about the other day, in which a former Catholic Herald editor made an uncharitable attack on the fat and urged that they be put at the back of the health are line, put me in mind of my oft-stated retort: Fine, if you are going to punish one group for increasing healthcare . . . . Continue Reading »
This year, the bees are back in the Exsultet . The Church’s prayer of rejoicing before the Paschal Candle never ceased to mention them in the Latin text, but the English translation omitted them for no good reason. Since the new translation of the Mass is more careful in rendering the Latin . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservatism, Europe, and the Comfort of Original Sin Charles Moore, The European Saving Constantine from the Anabaptists Barton Gingerich, Institute on Religion & Democracy A Guiding Principle Revealed David Schaengold, Public Discourse Healthcare in the Court, Day 3 Robert . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, What you read on firstthings.com makes a difference. Today we face an increasingly hostile intellectual culture, one that presumes that faith undermines reason, and that religion creates conflict and hostility in society. Our goal is to demonstrate how wrong this prejudice is. We . . . . Continue Reading »
As a literature professor, one of the challenges I face is helping students to see that “fiction” and “falsehood” are not interchangeable terms. Just because something is fictional does not mean that it is, per se, untrue; fiction is imaginative prose that may or may . . . . Continue Reading »
Friday, I was honored to be the emcee at the Center for Bioethics and Culture Annual Paul Ramsey Award Dinner. The award was given to Mary Ann Glendon. The keynoter was my wonderful friend, Joseph Bottum. He really put the problems we face in our culture in general, and bioethics/biotech in . . . . Continue Reading »
This and $2 will buy you a cup of coffee, but CNN”s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin thinks that the individual mandate is toast, and indeed, that the entire Obamacare leviathan could be declared unconstitutionality. I’ll believe it when I see it, but as they say, from his . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers may be interested in perusing the full text of Pope Benedict’s homily from this morning . Delivered in Revolution Square, Havana, expectations for the speech and the trip have been high, with some hopefully analogizing it to John Paul II’s 1979 journey to Poland under Soviet . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re excited to announce that First Things will now be offering individual articles for sale on Amazon, in Kindle format. Here’s the link to Reinhard Hutter’s “Pornography and Acedia.” From the product description: With accessible, forceful prose, Duke theology . . . . Continue Reading »
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