I was prepared—for once in a blue moon—to like this column by the Washington Post ‘s resident liberal Catholic scold, but, in the end there were too many jarring notes. To begin with what I rather liked: I want to suggest that what should most bother Christians of all political . . . . Continue Reading »
Ersatz or Authentic? Last Supper Seders Marvin Olasky, World Beware the Fausts of Neuroscience George Walden, Standpoint Two Views: Allan Bloom & Pop Culture Mark Judge & Emily Smith, Minding the Campus Thomas Merton on Social Media Jennifer Fulwiler, National . . . . Continue Reading »
Do you know that the Supreme Court struck down a federal economic regulation in Lochner v. New York? President Obama knows it. It just isn’t true. I think Carl got the tone just right in his comments in this thread. Carl writes: But with Obama, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Tucker Max, the bestselling author and self-proclaimed “frat-boy David Sedaris,” makes me glad that adolescent boorishness usually goes along with illiteracy. His stories—-centered on the abuse of alcohol and of women, in both cases extreme—-are generally better to ignore . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not a German lawyer, and so I don’t know if this is dispositive or merely the first step in a longer legal process. But a German administrative court has apparently ruled that the ban on physician-assisted suicide is too “general,” whatever that means. From the UPI . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on how Easter changes everything : Christmas occupies such a large part of the Christian imagination that the absolute supremacy of Easter as the greatest of Christian feasts may get obscured at times. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an Italian biblical scholar, suggests that we might . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity and Power Kyle Cupp, League of Ordinary Gentlemen Strip Searches and Human Dignity Rob Vischer, Mirror of Justice Baptism on the Chopping Block for Anglicans? Mary Ann Mueller, Virtue Online Battle Hymn of the Anti-Abortion Feminist Lila Rose, Politico Can Peter . . . . Continue Reading »
Back when the ICU was the big profit center, people complained that they were often ”hooked up to machines” until death, even when they just wanted to stop or go home to die. Then, when the ICU became a potential big money loser due to capitation, we began to hear more complaints . . . . Continue Reading »
In preparation for the Passover holiday and its prohibition against leaven bread (Hebrew: “hametz”), Jews spend weeks punctiliously purging their homes of every last crumb of the offending food. Pantries are cleaned, ovens scrubbed, the dark, mysterious regions in between couch cushions . . . . Continue Reading »
You read Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s The Case for Gay Acceptance in the Catholic Church on The Atlantic ‘s website, and scratch your head, and shuffle your feet, and drum your fingers on the table, and shuffle your feet again, trying to figure out what exactly you can say about it . . . . Continue Reading »
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