John Horgan reports at the Scientific American website,Yes, the inevitable has happened. Just before Election Day—surely not a coincidence—scientists report an association between liberal political views and DRD4, a gene that produces a receptor for the neurotransmitter dopamine.He . . . . Continue Reading »
This past Sunday, on the way to church, I was singing “Amazing Grace” to the tune of the theme song from “Gilligan’s Island.” When I was in fifth grade, my best friend Steve Gonzales and I sang this as a duet at an evening service, proving that the contemporary . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I see no reason to change my predictions. The Democrats are lamer than ever on the shows, but trends remained mixed. The Republican vote—I repeat—will likely be just short of a landslide, just as the Democratic vote was last time. 2. Some of my friends are overreacting by saying this . . . . Continue Reading »
“We can begin—today, with this very election—to teach our children about the spirit of honor, innovation, and independence that formed the nation and, even divided as we are, still sustains it,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in The Quiet Power of our Sacred Honor , today’s . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Histories , Herodotus relates a curious anecdote about the Persian king Darius. Gathering a group of Greeks who were presently at his court, the king asked them what they would take to eat the dead bodies of their fathers. They replied that no sum of money would entice them to commit such a . . . . Continue Reading »
Late, but only recently posted: Father George Rutler’s homily for the Mass for the repose of the soul of Richard John Neuhaus on the first anniversary of his death: He is Not Here . It includes: Tonight the risen Christ is offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the soul of Richard John . . . . Continue Reading »
As a small contribution to ecumenical understanding, on this sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the doctrine of the Assumption in Munificentissimus Deus , here is a section from my book Discovering Mary explaining what the pope said in defining it. It is, let me stress, only a . . . . Continue Reading »
On the sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Doctrine of the Assumption, a reflection on the dogma , which includes a video of the event. A government agency on the Isle of Wight is now letting girls as young as thirteen get “emergency contraception” and contraceptive pills . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently reported about how a Belgian woman with locked-in syndrome—total quadriplegia with full cognitive capacities caused by brain injury—was euthanized at her request by doctors—who then took her organs pursuant to consent. The idea of coupling euthanasia and organ . . . . Continue Reading »
“You are heretics, but it might not be your fault,” begins todays second “On the Square” article, a reflection on the Lutheran-Catholic agreement on justification. In The Skeleton of Genuine Reconciliation , Father David Poecking continues: In decades and centuries past, that . . . . Continue Reading »
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