Reproduction, we are now told, is a fundamental right. That sounds good. We don’t want government preventing people from having children. But under this theory, the right to reproduce has become more than just the right to have children. Women who don’t want their babies can . . . . Continue Reading »
New York is digging out from a big snowstorm, which means a quiet day at the office, allowing me to catch up on some of my reading, including Verbum Domini , the Apostolic Exhortation concerning scripture and interpretation put out by Pope Benedict last fall. There’s lots of rich material . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle urging my fellow Californians to turn a deaf ear to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s insistence we continue to borrow money—as the good ship California sinks beneath waves of red ink—to fund its luxurious . . . . Continue Reading »
I wonder what Rene Girard would make of this Smithsonian magazine article on the history of snowmen being treated as scapegoats: Some of these early postcards show snowmen being bludgeoned by two-by-fours and stomped on by tots. There are examples of snowmen being held up by gunpoint by . . . . Continue Reading »
For the first time ever, Britain is a majority non-religious nation : Every year, researchers from the British Social Attitudes survey ask a representative sample of British people whether they regard themselves as belonging to any particular religion and, if so, to which one? When the . . . . Continue Reading »
NPR has an article about young nuns in Nashville that is so sympathetic and affirming that it could be mistaken for the convent’s recruiting brochure: For the most part, these are grim days for Catholic nuns. Convents are closing, nuns are aging and there are relatively few new recruits. But . . . . Continue Reading »
I always laugh at the purported scientific studies that seek to explain differences in perception between liberals and conservatives. The latest, “Politics and Eye Movement,” is reported over at BioNews: From the story:It goes without saying that conservatives and . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s what it means about nature . . . . . Continue Reading »
This is becoming a parody. I noted here recently that ten years ago, an East Anglia climate scientist and others warned that that because of global warming, “within a few years” there would be NO SNOW IN ENGLAND! Poor UK kids would soon only know virtual snow.That didn’t work . . . . Continue Reading »
The following is a transcript of part two of Gayle Trotter’s podcast interview with George Weigel. Gayle talks with Weigel about The End and the Beginning, the newly released second part of his biography of John Paul II. Weigel, the author of fifteen books and a weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
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