Some months ago Fathers Thomas Joseph White and Austin Litke, O.P., played bluegrass music at the World Youth Alliance headquarters here in New York. They’re good, and to be frank they also look kinda out-there. It’s not often that you see two guys in white habits playing guitar . . . . Continue Reading »
A new bible translation has become a surprise bestseller in Norway, where only one percent of the population regularly attends church: It may sound like an unlikely number one best-seller for any country, but even more so in secular Norway. Yet the Bible, printed in a new Norwegian language . . . . Continue Reading »
In his “City Meditations” series (which you really should be reading), Alan Jacobs offers a critique of Wendell Berry’s 2012 Jefferson Lecture . Berry’s “Boomers and Stickers,” he points out, is a nice rhetorical device, but break down as categorical tools . . . . Continue Reading »
Read part one in this multi-part history here . Both a zealous commitment to congregational autonomy and a strong impulse toward cooperative ministry underlie the organizational history of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Throughout the history of the denomination, Southern Baptist leaders . . . . Continue Reading »
Since 1938, Finland has issued a maternity pack to expectant mothers that includes clothes, sheets, and toys, and for many newborns, the box it all comes in is their first bed. The tradition is now “an established part of the Finnish rite of passage towards motherhood, uniting . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Demise of Hoboken and Places Like It Nick Moran, The Millions When the Mainline Told Us What to Read Matt Hedstrom, Christian Century Emperors, the Church, and the Jews of the Diaspora Fergus Millar, Medievalists When Love Turns into Tolerance Fr. Robert Barron, Catholic News Agency Ira . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking at the Women’s Development Conference last week in Kuala Lumpur, the renowned Princeton bioethicist claimed that “overriding” procreation could be necessary to prevent environmental catastrophe, drawing an analogy between childbearing and calving in the process: . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Washington Times : A South Carolina valedictorian garnered wild applause after he ripped up his pre-approved speech and delivered the Lord’s prayer at his high school graduation on Saturday. The act was apparently in protest of the Pickens County School District’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The Catholic Church’s deployment of the language of “human rights”, thanks to Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris , says George Weigel in today’s column , has helped magnify its moral voice in world affairs. The universal resonance of Pacem in Terris . . . . Continue Reading »
The public health vacuum created by the Supreme Court, says Clarke D. Forsythe in today’s column , will continue to threaten the lives and health of women and enable more Kermit Gosnells to operate “house of horrors” clinics: Because the Justices foolishly believed that . . . . Continue Reading »
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