From Frederick Buechner’s Listening to Your Life : From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Unfortunately, writes R. R. Reno in Bad Dreams , today’s first “On the Square” article, a Jesuit writing on the Holy Land in the Jesuit magazine America offers “easy Leftist slogans rather than serious analysis” in his proposal for a single, and non-Jewish, . . . . Continue Reading »
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church Diocese of New York recently authorized the creation of a joint task force to “Assess the threat to religious freedom posed by the activities of the [Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD)] and related groups” and to “Develop . . . . Continue Reading »
Irene Rosenberg recently passed away. She was a longtime member of the University of Houston Law Center and a lion-hearted liberal. Irene and her husband Yale were two of the brightest lights at the law school. They were orthodox Jews and unapologetic leftists.While I disagreed with the two of them . . . . Continue Reading »
I just read President Bush’s chapter in his new book on how he came to his ESCR funding policy. It was very interesting, particularly since I was tangentially engaged in the effort to impact the policy—and later, repeatedly defended his decision.The ESCR issue was the first major . . . . Continue Reading »
Predictably, secular commentators and dissenting Catholics are not happy that the Catholic bishops elected Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, their next president. The Catholic League reports , for example: NPR is worried that Archbishop Dolan is “overtly conservative,” and Tim . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a taste of what I’m going to say at BYU on Friday. I hope to see you in Provo. It’ll be hard, but not impossible, for you to buy me a drink or a coup of coffee: Marriage has become, we can say, individualized or Lockeanized enough that homosexuals can reasonably wonder . . . . Continue Reading »
So I thought I’d dig through the archives over at Voegelin View and I came up with this piece by the beloved and avuncular Dr. Ellis Sandoz: http://www.voegelinview.com/medieval-rationalism-or-mystic-philosophy-pt-4.html It’s the fourth part of a series and the other three parts . . . . Continue Reading »
Who knew? When Fordham University posted this sample of Thomas Aquinas’ handwriting on its page for today’s Natural Law Colloquium, it provided needed evidence for something that had been only conjecture up to now: the late mediaeval theologian’s writings were obviously transcribed . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru, one of the smartest conservative commentators, finds some of the arguments for a second round of quantitative easing “persuasive.” A 2% inflation rate wouldn’t be so bad if the Fed could achieve it, he observes today at the NRO site.But read what Bernanke actually . . . . Continue Reading »
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