I have fought against assisted suicide/euthanasia since 1993 with as much energy and imagination as I possess. The issue matters a lot to me. I think stopping the death agenda is crucial to maintaining an equal and truly compassionate society.It is also very important to people like . . . . Continue Reading »
Those fortunate enough to have taken in Pope Benedict’s celebration of Cardinal Newman—at both Saturday’s prayer vigil , and the Mass and beatification early Sunday—were not disappointed. The solemnity of the occasion, the readings and beautiful hymns sung, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cardinal Newman Society in America is probably known best for protesting morally questionable speakers at Catholic colleges and universities. But they also serve as a support for orthodox educators and administrators and students. And they also are playing a role in the preservation of Cardinal . . . . Continue Reading »
While a growing plurality of the American public rejects the specific initiatives of the Obama Administration (health care reform, the stimulus bill, “too big to fail”), the President and Democratic Congress have earned their high disapproval ratings largely by ignoring the fact that a . . . . Continue Reading »
I am always uncomfortable when a new “fundamental right” is declared that nobody knew existed before. I mean if everything that is beneficial is a “right,” then eventually the concept itself will become watered down like inflation devalues currency. Or to put it . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in The Guardian , the leftiest of the English broadsheets, a former MP offers a “manifesto for secularist change” . He leads the article with the claim that “secularism” is “unfairly characterized and attacked by religious leaders as a way of seeking to protect . . . . Continue Reading »
You know how you’re so proud of yourself because you you can still recite a few lines from Desiderata or a poem by Rod McKuen? Yeah, well, that’s nothing. John Basinger has memorized all 10,565 lines of Milton’s Paradise Lost : Pounding the treadmill in 1993, John . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t able to follow all the news, never mind all the news-analysis and pundit chatter, about the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the UK this past week. I knew it was happening, and had a sense of its historic character. I saw some headlines about the major events and reactions.Rolling . . . . Continue Reading »
Reflecting on the last day of the State Visit, I indulge a couple of personal thoughts. First, the Rite of Beatification took place near Coventry which, as Pope Benedict mentioned in his homily, suffered from the blitz of November 14, 1940 (there were earlier raids in July and August of that . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. James Martin notes Newman’s unusual feast day, the anniversary not of Newman’s “entrance into Heaven,” but of his entrance into, as Newman himself put it, “the Church of Christ.” A convert from Anglicanism myself, I find the emphasis on Newman’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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