True devotion to Mary, as Fr. Neuhaus recently reminded us , always points us to Christ. Like most converts to Catholicism or Orthodoxy, Marian devotion has taken some getting used to for me. I therefore found Frederica Mathewes-Green’s The Lost Gospel of Mary: The Mother of Jesus in Three . . . . Continue Reading »
First, I want to follow Jody in congratulating Tony Blair, who has been a good friend to this nation, on his conversion to Catholicism. I am also happy to congratulate Mr. Blair’s country, the United Kingdom, on its conversion to Catholicism. Yes, you read that correctly. What I mean is that, . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me see if I understand the T-shirt on the right correctly: Don’t buy that Christmas gift and thereby perpetuate the consumerist mentality. Do obliterate the lumpenproletariat, terrorize the masses, and establish a one-party dictatorship. All by Christmas morning? I went out and bought 11 . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Jody, you should, indeed, let the Sussex Carol console you for the Georgetown Hoyas’ defeat by the Memphis Tigers. But I’m afraid that all I can add is: Go Tigers! (The teams of the college I attended amount, as one friend put it, to a really great library. So, living here in . . . . Continue Reading »
Our beloved editor here at First Things has written on many topics, yet on no two has he expounded in greater depth and at greater length than Christmas and death . Apparently many residents of the Great State of California have decided to combine the two. Scholars who study this sort of thing . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Ann Glendon resigned last month from the board of First Things in order, she said, to clear herself of all commitments before beginning work for the U.S. government. It seemed an unreasonable trade to me—I mean, an ambassador rather than a First Things board member?—but she decided . . . . Continue Reading »
The lead item on the BBC news website has been the reception of Tony Blair into full communion with the Catholic Church. The move had long been expected: His wife and children were already Catholic, he had been attending Catholic services (but not taking communion) for some time, and his last . . . . Continue Reading »
So, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (I still can’t get used to saying that) is going to sue the federal government for standing in his way on setting Californicentric emission-control standards. According to a former Schwarzenegger adviser: “He’s got a pretty strong personality, . . . . Continue Reading »
As the “Sussex Carol”—an underappreciated carol and one of my favorites for the season—asks: Then why should men on earth be sad, Since our Redeemer made us glad? Well, one answer is that Georgetown just got schooled by the Memphis Tigers in one of the ugliest performances . . . . Continue Reading »
The blog Surfeited with Dainties smartly picks up the various commentators who have recently been expressing libertarian dismay with the libertarian Ron Paul’s opposition to abortion. The blog’s author, Michael Brendan Dougherty, points, for instance, to this extraordinary passage from . . . . Continue Reading »
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