This article points to the ways in which current legal challenges to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act rest upon assertions of traditional state authority to define marriage. Here, for example, is how New York, Vermont, and Connecticut put it in their amicus brief in Windsor v. U.S. , a case in . . . . Continue Reading »
I incurred the wrath of Game of Thrones fans when I complained about the pretty graphic (soft core) incest depicted between adult brother and sister in the early episodes, complete with grunts and sighs. And I warned that using incest to titillate in a fantasy was just the beginning. From my . . . . Continue Reading »
I was amazed at arriving in New York a little over a month ago to find that, for such a big city, there are very few Catholic churches with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on more than just the first Friday of the month, and not one with perpetual Adoration (at least not that I have found thus . . . . Continue Reading »
At the blog “Grateful to the Dead,” a “church historian’s playground,” a Protestant professor (Chris Armstrong, specialist in church history at Bethel University) posts an exchange with a young, earnest Evangelical student over the Catholic sacrament of . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on Cardinal Martini and the timeless church : When Cardinal Carlo Martini, the former Archbishop of Milan, died on August 31, many must have wondered what kind of leader the Church had just lost. “Progressive Catholic Icon . . . Dies After Saying Church ‘200 years’ . . . . Continue Reading »
Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian whose conversion from Islam caused him to receive a death sentence for apostasy, was released from prison this weekend. According to CNN , a trial court in Iran acquitted him of apostasy and instead charged him with evangelizing Muslims, then . . . . Continue Reading »
Australia’s Philip Nitschke’s “life’s work” is to make it easier for anyone who wants death to off themselves, and for any reason. He travels the world giving “how to” seminars and has even trained people to buy suicide drugs in Mexico and sneak . . . . Continue Reading »
This is my latest column in Christian Courier, published 10 September. Please subscribe today.Once upon a time the Democratic and Republican Parties were big-tent organizations, trying to appeal to as wide a swath of public opinion as they could manage. Although the Republicans were generally . . . . Continue Reading »
I too can’t believe that Romney is describing VAGUELY the parts of ObamaCare he would keep without launching into an attack in terms of both LIBERTY and SUSTAINABILITY of ObamaCare as a whole. Mrs. Romney, meanwhile, is asked why she wouldn’t let two lesbians marry in the name of . . . . Continue Reading »
Land O’Lakes at 45 Michael McLean, Legatus “This Journey Is Often Impeded by Emotion . . . ” Flannery O’Connor, The American Reader Are Scientists Succumbing to ‘Mission Creep?’ Julian Baggini & Lawrence Krauss, The Guardian The Clown in the Pulpit Jeremy . . . . Continue Reading »
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