In a story that seems equal parts Father Ted * and The Boondock Saints , three young men robbed an Irish monsignor and his housekeeper on Monday evening in a flurry of hammer-waving, cross-signing, and warm Gaelic hospitality: One of the raiders, who spoke with a Traveller and Dublin . . . . Continue Reading »
David and Rusty , I think you’re exactly right about the new IAV manifesto. Because of what you point out—the manifesto says good things but will nonetheless have negative rather than positive consequences for marriage—this could be a fruitful dialogue opportunity. The . . . . Continue Reading »
“Could it be then that the muse isn’t Greek after all? That Mt. Parnassus is really St. Peter’s?” asks Bruce Guernsey in the most recent issue of Dappled Things . Guernsey, a practicing poet who is former editor of the Spoon River Poetry Review and has taught creative . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman on finding his inner gun owner : I am getting in touch with my inner gun owner, that primal part of my reptilian brain that says “I must weaponize.” Blame it on the Obama administration, I say. The president’s proposals of firearm abatement got me thinking: If I . . . . Continue Reading »
BY ME (Thanks to Ivan the K for letting me know that I originally mislinked.) . . . . Continue Reading »
Finally, as an example of such vision of substantive goods (as evoked by Roger Scruton, above), let me share a tidbit from an important essay against same-sex marriage (made world famous by the Pope’s high praise) authored by France’s chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim. I have just . . . . Continue Reading »
Via the Moscow Times , we learn that Russian President Vladimir Putin has hired ’90s icons Boyz II Men to perform at a concert series promoting higher birthrates: President Vladimir Putin’s crusade to raise the country’s birth rate is set to get . . . . Continue Reading »
David Blankenhorn thinks the gay marriage debate has reached a dead end. He wants it to go in a new direction. Thus “ A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage ,” a manifesto of sorts from the Institute for American Values. Blankenhorn wants to form a coalition of the willing to renew the . . . . Continue Reading »
Russian “Old Believers” Cut Off from Society for Forty Years Mike Dash, Smithsonian Zero Dark Thirty : It’s Time to Get Dogmatic About Torture Slavoj Zizek, Religion & Ethics Jane Austen, Moral Philosopher Thomas Rodham, Philosophy Now The Reformation, Rooted in Tradition . . . . Continue Reading »
“Pope: Easy Annulments Undercut the Value of Marriage,” USA Today: Pope Benedict XVI says granting annulments too easily is undercutting the value of lifelong marriage. In a speech Saturday, he asked the Vatican’s highest appeals court to consider reviewing church rules on marriage . . . . Continue Reading »
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