Deponent verbs are the bane of the young Latin student’s existence. They take the form of the passive voice, but they have active meaning. And they are darned common: loquor, I speak; confiteor, I confess; morior, I die. Many of them are transitive verbs, and so they can . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) hosted a tightly orchestrated Global Youth Forum in the run up to the twentieth anniversary of the Cairo Conference on Population and Development. UNFPA anticipated nine hundred youth participants, including a contingent from the Girl Scouts and Girl . . . . Continue Reading »
The Reawakening of the Church in France Sandro Magister, Chisea.it Was the Potato Famine a Genocidal Plot? Y.F., The Economist Why Did Joseph Plan to Divorce Mary? Jimmy Akin, National Catholic Register So Progressive It’s Conservative Emily Matchar, The Atlantic Called to the Unbidden Jason . . . . Continue Reading »
There seems to be a fair amount of national interest in who will replace Jim DeMint in the Senate. A lot of this interest focuses on Representative Tim Scott. I remember people talking about who would be appointed to replace retiring Republican Senator Jim Ensign from Nevada. Whoever was appointed . . . . Continue Reading »
( Via Gregory Barr ) . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal Dolan commented today on last week’s HHS Mandate Decision: Did you hear about the decision last week by U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Cogan in the lawsuit brought by the Archdiocese of New York . . . against the administration for the unconstitutional HHS mandate? . . . . Continue Reading »
A few years back, First Things published a somewhat incredulous While We’re At It entry noticing the curiously named Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, a service that promised to take care of pets left behind after the rapture. (It was recently confirmed to be satire by the proprietor, who . . . . Continue Reading »
Reuters reports : France will deport foreign-born imams and disband radical faith-based groups, including hardline traditionalist Catholics, if a new surveillance policy signals they suffer a “religious pathology” and could become violent. Two days ago, . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend and writer Maureen Mullarkey examines a new biographer of Cézanne who, “abandoning scholarly obligation to periods of taste different from his own . . . declares allegiance to the dashing Young Turks against the old duffers” and “gratifies the susceptibilities of . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher thinks the fight to stop same-sex marriage is lost. I think he is wrong about that but Rod is annoyed that Glenn Beck—-who has thrown in the towel on marriage, maybe he never had the towel in the first place—-gets things so wrong about marriage and the law and the . . . . Continue Reading »
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