For the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, Egyptian Muslims offered their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to protect the threatened Christian community : Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had a been a promise of solidarity to the weary . . . . Continue Reading »
Something for your consideration, in case you haven’t seen it: The story of a Christian woman in rural Pakistan sentenced to death for being a Christian, who remains in prison where, according to a Pakistani Catholic priest, “she can be killed any time” . The latest news is that a . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro-choicers say they want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. But we will see whether major pro choice organizations react to the awful statistic that 39 percent of pregnancies in NYC result in induced abortion. From the story: In 2009, there were 225,667 pregnancies in the City with 126,774 . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed here whether anyone is “pro abortion.” I think some are, and some not. But in NYC, it is clear that far too many women are indifferent to it. Otherwise, what explains a 39% rate of induced abortions in that city? From the story:In 2009, . . . . Continue Reading »
These days, it is uncharacteristically hard to avoid hearing or reading people opine about the Constitution. As someone who spends almost the first half of every introductory American government class discussing that document, I agree with Charles Krauthammer in welcoming this development, however . . . . Continue Reading »
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, people who drink, eat, smoke, drug, copulate, etc. to excess should not be able to claim the mantle of victim and get others to pay for the consequences of their own poor choices. On the other hand, there does come a point where such . . . . Continue Reading »
As is often the case, Public Discourse has an interesting article today, this one by Matthew Milliner on the current hand-wringing about the future of humanistic inquiry in American higher education. Milliner, a graduate student in art history at Princeton and a blogger here at First Thoughts, . . . . Continue Reading »
In his fitting article on Marian devotion, John Haldane wrote: Her unique elevation has been criticized from two opposing quarters: On the one hand by Biblical Protestants who view it as superstitious, idolatrous and entirely without scriptural foundation; and on the other by radical feminists who . . . . Continue Reading »
A reminder: A Memorial Mass on the second anniversary of the death of Father Richard John Neuhaus will be held tomorrow, Saturday, January 8, 2011, at the Church of Our Saviour (38th Street and Park Avenue). It will begin at 12:15 p.m. The celebrant and homilist will be Father . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh my, the fur is going to fly on this one. The NYT is reporting that “one of psychology’s most respected journals,” The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, will publish a paper validating the existence of extra sensory perception. From the story:One of . . . . Continue Reading »
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