In an interview with Panorama magazine, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the two men whose business partnership—and one-time romantic partnership—lies behind one of the world's great fashion powerhouses, have declared that “The only family is the traditional one.”“The family . . . . Continue Reading »
While Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone holds the line on the teaching of orthodox moral doctrines of the Catholic Church out in San Francisco, here in New Jersey a theology teacher in Immaculata High School in Somerville is threatened with dismissal from her position for . . . agreeing with orthodox moral doctrines of the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
Secularists vs. Providentialists
Richard M. Reinsch II, The American Conservative
What Scares the New Atheists
John Gray, The Guardian
Morality, Facts, and Opinions
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing
Epigenesis
Joseph Bathanti, Asheville Poetry Review
As Scot McKnight points out, some conversions from evangelicalism to Rome may not simply be the result of a failure to instil theology. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Peter Turkson Delivers the Trocaire 2015 Lenten Lecture
Editors, Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference
Why Local Food Freedom Matters
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative
Dante's Dogs
Alberto Manguel, The New York Review of Books
Souls Matter
William Carroll, Public Discourse
Why Poor Women with Unintended Pregnancies Are Less Likely to Get Abortions
Amber Lapp, Family Studies
Flannery O'Connor to Betty Hester
The American Reader
Footfall
Julie Maclean, The Poetry Foundation
Danse Macabre
Andrew Nagorski, The Weekly Standard
“The Art of the Beautiful,” a summer school on faith & culture, and more.
Yesterday, in a brief order published at the head of an otherwise miscellaneous list, the Supreme Court made a summary disposition of University of Notre Dame v. Burwell, the case involving the university's resistance to the HHS contraception-sterilization-abortifacient mandate under Obamacare. Here is the whole of what the Court said: Continue Reading »
Over the weekend, President Obama and other national leaders traveled to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the march on Selma. The events of that day in particular, and of the Civil Rights movement in general, remind us of an important truth: Religion and politics do go together—a democratic version of the latter cannot be sustained without the former. Continue Reading »
Are LARCs the Solution to Nonmarital Childbearing?
Helen Alvaré, Family Studies
ISIS and What the World Really Wants
Br. Dominic Mary Verner,O.P., Dominicana
The Death of Writing - if James Joyce Were Alive Today He'd Be Working for Google
Tom McCarthy, The Guardian
How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
Jonathan Berger, Nautilus
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