George Weigel asks “What Kind of Country Do You Want?” : Do you want to live in an America that is recovering a sense of decency, a country in which moral conviction born of biblical faith is welcomed in public life, and neither the culture nor the government deplore biblical morality . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, says the head of the Hebrew Studies Department at Tanta University in Egypt, Muhammad Galaa Idris. In an interview on Egypt’s Al-Rahma TV, he informs us that Pope Benedict XVI is either Jewish or has been “Judaized”: The Egyptian academic said this in . . . . Continue Reading »
In certain parts of the south and southwest, it is hard to distinguish football from religion. Some high school cheerleaders in Texas have tied them together too closely for the taste of the Washington Post editorial board . Applying the journalistic version of the Supreme Court’s endorsement . . . . Continue Reading »
A War on Religion? Bruce Hausknecht, Public Discourse The Righteous Mind and the Libertarian Mind Emily Esfahani Smith, Washington Times Newsmagazine Death and the Dwindling Cult of Authority Jim Kelly, Vanity Fair A Dissident None on the Rising Unaffiliated Nathaniel Torrey, Juicy Ecumenism . . . . Continue Reading »
A brouhaha is brewing in the Great State of my beloved North Dakota at the moment. Bishop David Kagan, my ordinary here in Bismarck, and also apostolic administrator of the vacant Diocese of Fargo, has composed a letter concerning conscience and citizenship as Catholics in North Dakota prepare to . . . . Continue Reading »
In my historical linguistics class, we talk about the influence of culture on circumlocutions, the strategy of saying something indirect so as not to offend. One of the classic examples is that of the refusal of some Victorians to say the word “bull” because it referred to that . . . . Continue Reading »
that is made up of people who went to bed early or watched Monday Night Football instead of seeing the debate (I went to bed early btw.) Did anyone see anything that will change anybody’s mind? Did anybody see anything that will get undecided voters to finally make up their minds? Here is . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Williamson has been removed from the traditionalist Catholic splinter group Society of St. Pius X, according to the traditionalist blog Rorate Caeli : Bishop Richard Williamson, one of the four bishops consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and co-consecrated by Bishop Antonio de . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings magazine, Retired Navy Captain Kevin Eyer explains how sex integration has wasted the Navy’s resources and made it less combat-ready: Casual observers—civilians and those who have never served in a fully integrated combat . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2004 Michelle Obama wrote a campaign letter on behalf of her husband’s campaign saying that killing a child when it was halfway out of the womb was a “legitimate medical procedure” (thus clarifying her husband’s idea of what constitutes a “surgical” . . . . Continue Reading »
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