The Economist has a story assembling hard figures and best guesses on the size and state of the complex, opaque finances of the Catholic Church. Some figures from the report: 6,800 is the number of Catholic schools in America (5% of the national total) 630 is the number of Catholic hospitals . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on the Virgin Mary’s spiritual lessons : When affirming the Blessed Virgin’s immaculate conception, a Catholic is not in any way denying Mary’s humanity, nor is he covertly turning her into a goddess of some sort. Instead, the dogma simply applies the saving merits . . . . Continue Reading »
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has just published a major study on charitable giving. The study tends to reaffirm a commonplace—that religious people (or at least people who live in regions where religion plays a larger role in people’s lives) are more generous. Thus folks in the more . . . . Continue Reading »
Scott Galupo very kindly links to one of my post over at his blog. Galupo also writes that: Right now, Romney boosters like Levin are chortling over the political difficulty Obama faces as a consequence of having paid for new spending rather than finance it through deficits. And . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t like much about Obamacare. But most urgently, I oppose its imposition of anti-American centralized control—in the sense that it is the antithesis of the Founders’ governing philosophy—and hopeless complexity over a huge sector of the American economy, as much . . . . Continue Reading »
Restore the Three-Hour Eucharistic Fast for Catholics? Joseph Shaw, Rorate Caeli Ten Years at a Crisis Pregnancy Center Eve Tushnet, Weekly Standard Religion, Science, and Apocalyptic Thinking Matt Ridley, Wired Gnostics for Religious Freedom Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum . . . . Continue Reading »
When I sat for oral examinations in my master’s degree in English, where I concentrated in creative writing, one of the questions was about how I approach foreshadowing in my short stories. Foreshadowing is the way that writers hint about upcoming events or twists in a story. For . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, good grief. Can you be more ignorant than to claim that “legitimately” raped women “rarely” get pregnant? But that’s what the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator in Missouri, Todd Akin, did in an interview. After stating that abortion should be . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was watching Fox News Sunday . They had Romney advisor Ed Gillespie on. Gillespie is one of the better communicators the Republicans have. When Chris Wallace asked Gillespie about Ryan’s Medicare reform plan and how the CBO estimated that this would cost the average . . . . Continue Reading »
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