Get ready to shout “Amen!” because this fall Oxygen will air Preachers of L.A. , a new reality series about six pastors in the Los Angeles area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml8bQDnnkKk Here’s what the network has to say about its new series. Preachers of L.A. gives a . . . . Continue Reading »
Jean wrote this morning. I haven’t gotten her permission to post her astute comments. But I will mention a couple of points: Jean is right that it’s pretty misleading to lump LOCHNER with ROE and DRED SCOTT as substantive due process evildoing. The issue in LOCHNER is something over . . . . Continue Reading »
In my last essay at First Things , I echoed the words of Pope Benedict writing about the pastoral care of the homosexual person by saying, “only what is true can ultimately be pastoral.” Rev. Wojciech Giertych , O.P., the Theologian of the Papal Household, last week echoed the words . . . . Continue Reading »
So having read Bob’s post and Carl’s very thorough and elegant response, let me offer a somewhat different view on the relationship between the progessive TR and our (new kind of) progressive Justice Anthony Kennedy. So TR and TK are both about constitutional development, that’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Early Friday morning, Catholic blogger and new media guru Brandon Vogt took the text of the papal encyclical Lumen Fidei from the Vatican website where it is available free online, and reformatted it for various readers like Kindle, Nook, and iPad , thinking that it would be a good and evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »
My On The Square column today is about how Republicans underperform even among African-Americans and Latinos who express right-leaning policy preferences. Basically, the lack of a Republican agenda that takes into account the struggles of much of the lower-middle-class makes it easier for Democrats . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s hope that our (!) Jean Yarbrough, and perhaps even Scott Yenor and Ronald Pestritto will respond to Bob Patterson below. Here’s my two cents, based on an analysis of TR’s “The Right of the People to Rule” speech from 1912. The speech features both an ingenious riff . . . . Continue Reading »
“Even though a better Republican media strategy is necessary, it would not be sufficient,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column . “If Republicans want to do better among right-leaning nonwhites, they have to become a different right-leaning party.” One can be for a . . . . Continue Reading »
“Without restoration [of St. Patrick’s Cathedral] both we, the visitors and the walkers-by, and the cathedral herself will fall apart,” says Kate Monaghan in today’s column . An article mentioned on this blog from the New York Times in 2012 (at the . . . . Continue Reading »
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