The often media-scorned pro life movement has made major inroads among the American people, according to the latest Gallup Poll. Those who identify themselves as “pro life” now outnumber those who see themselves as “pro choice,” with the latter category at its nadir . . . . Continue Reading »
Leaving Wall Street Alexis Goldstein, n+1 Liturgical Diversity in the Third Millennium Charles G. Mills, Homiletic & Pastoral Review A Pair of Holy Land Discoveries Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine HHS Doesn’t Speak for Me, or Other Women Helen Alvare, . . . . Continue Reading »
Why? Because there isn’t one. Although lawsuits challenging the contraception mandate are separating the wheat from the chaff to some extent, as in the case of Notre Dame, CUA, et al, the amorphous population of Catholic voters has never been so difficult to define. Weighing in on MSNBC , our . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. A survey of physicians, conducted by Jackson Healthcare, finds that 26% of physicians are not taking new Medicare patients, and 51% refusing new Medicaid patients. And with the Independent Payment Advisory Board and other Obamacare monstrosities, expect things to get worse.One could . . . . Continue Reading »
IKEA is now the most popular restaurant in Iceland, both by visits per year and by volume of food served. The country’s most popular restaurant is not a restaurant. The Reykjavik Insider : Arnar Stefánsson, the restaurant manager, said that the most popular day of the year is . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Howard Kurtz points out some of Walter Cronkite’s partisan and personal transgressions. The most trusted man in America slanted his news coverage to favor Democrats over Republicans and to take sides in intra-Democratic rivalries. Kurtz argues that these would be a big . . . . Continue Reading »
This little gem has obvious relevance to my last post and is worth reposting here. Jake Belder is a Canadian “millennial” living in Kingston upon Hull, England, where he serves as assistant minister at St John Newland Church.Something of a ‘blog war’ over the ‘culture . . . . Continue Reading »
Nicholas Eberstadt has an article in the latest edition of the Wilson Quarterly in which he examines what happens when a society stops sanctioning and practicing marriage as a norm and abandons childbearing. Looking at Japan’s past two and next few decades, he underlines some rather stunning . . . . Continue Reading »
These amazing photos, of 40,000 Orthodox Jewish males filling New York’s Citi Field (with another 20,000 off-site), have been making the rounds. Some writers suggested the all-male meeting was sexist and/or excessively secretive . Predictable reactions from those made anxious by such a . . . . Continue Reading »
In the known universe, only human beings yearn for meaning. Only we search for TRUTH. Only we think noetically and have mystical experiences. Only we develop philosophies. Only we act on rationally constructed moral values. Only we experience faith. And only we deploy the . . . . Continue Reading »
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