Cardinal Virtues and Counterfeit Virtues Edward Feser A Leiter Case for the Superfluousness of Religious Liberty Ryan Anderson, Library of Law and Liberty Examining John Wesley’s Troubled Marriage Adam and Magan, From Cajun to Asian The Church and Tobacco: A History John B. Buescher, Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps it is time for conservatives to reach back to the beginning of the modern conservative movement in order to regain their footing in the conservative movement of today. Social conservatism seems to have been reduced to a set of policies —- life and marriage with pornography somewhere . . . . Continue Reading »
The movement toward same-sex “marriage” has every appearance of being an irresistible force, with recent elections indicating the inexorability of its spread across the Western world. Those who stand against it will be bowled over by it. The outcome is all but inevitable. So say its . . . . Continue Reading »
Driving home from Dallas to Houston after a family Thanksgiving dinner is a task. I don’t mean the traffic, but I mean the effort itself. A Thanksgiving dinner tradition my late grandmother established over thirty years ago still holds (in its bare bones) today. So four hours from Houston to . . . . Continue Reading »
My thanks to J. Mark Bertrand for his article on the homepage today offering Bible-buying recommendations. I’d also mention for Catholics the Ignatius Bible: Second Catholic Edition . It’s a Catholic revision of the RSV first done in the 1960s and recently revised again in light of . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the privileges of the Internet is that we get to read some truly vicious and idiotic opinions, in certain comments sections especially. We get to learn how the bottom of the barrel thinks and speaks on political matters, and alas, how well-populated that bottom is. But we . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Office: The death of Mrs. Savita Halappanavar and her unborn child in University Hospital Galway on the 28 October last was a devastating personal tragedy for her husband and family. It has stunned our country. We share the anguish and sorrow expressed by so . . . . Continue Reading »
Through a combination of canniness and capitulation, Tonio Borg was approved last week as the new European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection. The final vote was 386-281 with 28 abstentions. As I noted in these pages , faithful Catholics feared that a coalition of atheists and leftists . . . . Continue Reading »
So Protestants in their ways degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in the world. Marriage became predominately natural but still holy and Christian. It wasn’t rechained to the paganism of aristocratic patriarchy. For most . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago I wrote a sharply worded attack on Ken Mehlman’s argument that supporting gay marriage is the properly “conservative” position. David Blankenhorn offered some thoughtful reflections about what’s at stake for me (and others). He raises a key question. Can those of us who . . . . Continue Reading »
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