For those of you who are Anglophiles, and I suspect that’s a good many of you, who therefore are probably spending your Sunday evenings watching Downton Abbey , a dissenting story from Slate, What is Actually at Stake at Downton Abbey? The answer is apparently, according to . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, a bipartisan House majority passed H.R. 592 , sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), which requires FEMA to provide disaster assistance to houses of worship using the same criteria it has for other applicants. A letter to Rep. Smith from the Becket Fund assures him that his . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his support for the Reproductive Health Act in his “State of the State” address. The Reproductive Health Act would make abortion a “fundamental right” in New York law, rendering it very difficult to pass incremental pro-life . . . . Continue Reading »
A Request: Tell Me I’m Not Good Enough David Paul Deavel, Catholic World Report Apologies for Interfaith “Debacle” Caleb K. Bell, Christianity Today More Evidence Exonerating Pius XII Dalya Alberge, Guardian Can Writers Retire? Bill Morris, The Millions More Reflections on . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Rubio’s speech was fine. It had the correct populist working-class and middle-class focus. Rubio’s speech compares favorably with Romney’s Republican convention speech despite Rubio having a tougher environment. 2. This isn’t a criticism of the speech, but Rubio’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval Levin argues that Obama’s lack of major proposals represents (in part) the “exhaustion of liberalism in our time.” I agree with Levin that Obama’s SOTU was mostly defensive, but I take that as more scary than anything else. I think Obama is betting that, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Obama’s speech yesterday was almost unbearably boring. It is tough to imagine anybody keeping focused on the whole speech who wasn’t being paid to do so. But boring doesn’t mean ineffective. Pete Hegseth got it about right. The purpose of last night’s speech was to make . . . . Continue Reading »
The more things change, etc. Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life reports that over the last century the number of Catholics in the Church has more than tripled, from 291 million in 1910 to about 1.1. billion today, but the Church’s percentage of the . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2002, the internet was set abuzz by news that the Beatles had approached J.R.R. Tolkien about doing a film version of Lord of the Rings starring the Fab Four: Once upon a time, the Fab Four—having slain the pop charts—decided to set their sights on the Dark Lord Sauron by making a Lord . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Turkson is not shy about his wish to become first black Pope , declares the English magazine The Week , unfairly, since the Ghanaian cardinal seems to have merely been answering a question, not pushing himself forward. In any case, as Anthony Esolen wrote in an email exchange, we have . . . . Continue Reading »
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