When I was young, I was in a car with friends driving past a large Veteran’s cemetery, and noting all the tombstones, sparked gales of ridiculing laughter when I exclaimed, “Wow, there sure are a lot of dead people in the world!”Knowledge of our own death is . . . . Continue Reading »
The South Bend Tribune reports that 131 faculty of the University of Notre Dame have signed a letter calling on Fr. John Jenkins, the president of the university, to “issue a statement” that will “definitively distance Notre Dame” from remarks made in a homily by Bishop . . . . Continue Reading »
Exhibit A for Explaining the LCWR Report Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine Marco Rubio: Neocon? James Kitfield, National Journal Prosperity Need Not Kill Religion Edward Hadas, Reuters Revitalizing Culture and Economy Mike Scaperlanda, Mirror of Justice What Makes a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has posted a slide-show presentation of changes in support for same-sex marriage. There’s no new news here. Rising support for same-sex marriage has been widely reported. Not surprisingly, secularists are most supportive, religious people less . . . . Continue Reading »
I think this is a step too far. Canadian pediatricians are discharging patients whose parents refuse to permit inoculations. From the The Star story:Pediatricians in Canada are starting to discharge children whose parents refuse to have them vaccinated. More and more, doctors are taking a . . . . Continue Reading »
Surgical abortion is—surgery. But now, a bill has been introduced in the California Legislature to allow non doctors to perform this life-taking surgery. From the San Francisco Chronicle report:As states across the country are passing laws to restrict access to abortion, California . . . . Continue Reading »
For a very nice remembrance of Chuck Colson, see Timothy George’s piece in the National Catholic Register . Fitting that our baptist friend would remember an evangelical founder of Evangelicals and Catholics Together in a Catholic journal. . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, our friends at National Review Online editorialized against the so-called “People’s Rights Amendment,” which is an attempt to overturn the Supreme Court’s holding in the Citizens United case, a holding that is anathema to the President and many of his . . . . Continue Reading »
I am concerned that Western society is threatened with two metastasizing twin crises of competence and character. Science is not immune from larger cultural forces, and thus two recent stories worry me that the dual afflictions have spread to science too.First, it appears . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on Rosa DeLauro, CNS, and the disoriented Catholic Left : One does wonder, sometimes, just what goes on at Catholic News Service (CNS), an agency that wouldn’t exist were it not for the U.S. bishops and the bishops’ conference. This past April 16, CNS distributed a lengthy . . . . Continue Reading »
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