It’s a little late in the day to remember this, but today is the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The Catholic Herald has commemorated the day with the remarkable story of eight Jesuit priests who survived the atomic blast although they were less than a mile from the detonation . . . . Continue Reading »
Kenya’s constitutional referendum has been, for the past several months, the source of some controversy in the United States with suggestions that the United States has taken a heavy hand in advocating for its approval. It would seem that the reported $23 million spent by the U.S. Agency for . . . . Continue Reading »
I have discussed the legal controversy in Washington in which the state seeks to force dissenting pharmacies to fill prescriptions against which they have a moral objection. Most objections involve contraception and abortifacient drugs. But the issue could also apply to lethal prescriptions . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. Francis Martin has suffered a heart attack, and is presently in intensive care in Copehhagen, Denmark. A long time proponent of biblical interpretation informed by the wisdom of the church’s great tradition of doctrine, Fr. Martin has been an important voice in contempoary . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope snubbed by Scottish Catholics Controversy has broken out over the Pope’s planned open-air Mass at Bellahouston Park, near Glasgow, with many parishes returning more than half of their allocated tickets for the event. The organisers now reportedly fear that attendance will fall short of . . . . Continue Reading »
The website CatholicCulture.org reports upset by Jewish leaders in St. Louis over the local Archdiocese’ support for a “Hebrew Catholics” association:Local Jewish leaders are disturbed by the Archdiocese of St. Louis’s support for the Association of Hebrew Catholics, an . . . . Continue Reading »
Another interesting article produced the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse : Constitutional expert Matthew J. Franck’s Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Moral Reasoning . I mention the article in part because a legal scholar on our board calls it “by far the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m sorry I haven’t time to say more about the great professors and students at the ISI conference. I was going to explain how Dr. Pat Deneen was right to connect Bloom and Dewey on the proposition that the past—including devotion to God, country, and so forth—is dead to . . . . Continue Reading »
The most important data point in this morning’s employment release—both for economics and politics—is the loss of 48,000 state and local government jobs. That almost wipes out the 71,000 increase in private employment. Because of the layoff of Census temporary workers, the headline . . . . Continue Reading »
The Patheos symposium on the future of evangelicalism introduced another set of essays on August 4th under the rubric of “Transforming Culture.” Karl Giberson, a physicist, scholar on science and religion, and Vice President of the BioLogos Forum, has written a short essay that expresses . . . . Continue Reading »
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