Last Thursday, I attended a meeting of the UN General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Committee —the so-called “Third Committee”—for presentation of the annual report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Professor Heiner Beilefeldt. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Weightier Provisions of the Law Rob Schwarzwalder, The Gospel Coalition Africans and Anglicans: A Catholic Anthropology for the Priesthood David Pence, Virtue Online The European Left’s Growing Trouble with Jews Colin Schindler, New York Times Thomas Friedman’s Ignorance About . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember being befuddled by the claims of the Occupy Wall Street crowd? I do. Now those are promoted again in an ad intended to promote the president. It all seems t oo much, to me, anyway. . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHT HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not presenting much new about the election and the political scientists here have far more information than I do, by profession. However, observing the political scene and responding to the recent posts here, I feel compelled to weigh in. I believe Romney is winning the . . . . Continue Reading »
From the weekly standard this week: For the small school of political analysis that draws its inspiration from the great French 17th-century philosopher René Descartes, the cardinal methodological rule is to begin from what one can know “so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m an a**hole, but such as we can see only by starlight I like to think I have something to say. So says the Smashing Pumpkins with which Carl would immediately say is stupid, because he is the go to guy on anything regarding music. Even if his historicist nonsense should not be called . . . . Continue Reading »
As far as I know, Conor Cruise O’Brien’s Maria Cross: Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers is the only book of literary criticism ever to be responsible for a war. It was on the basis of this book that Dag Hammarskjöld plucked its author from the Irish delegation at . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I’ll tell you about Ralph’s great conference later. 2. Well, one thing now: Russell Hittinger, who gave a fine lecture on Catholic defenses of marriage and the family against the modern state’s various efforts (beginning with the French Revolution) to reduce people to . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Romney has reached the arbitrary but psychologically significant (for me and maybe only for me) lead of 1% in then RCP average. That is his biggest lead since October 13. More importantly, Obama’s average job approval is down to 48.3% . That is the lowest his job approval has been since . . . . Continue Reading »
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