George Weigel on the Church and the unions : The defense of nascent trade unionism in late-nineteenth-century America is a bright chapter in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. When a nervous Vatican was prepared to write off trade unions as the kind of “secret . . . . Continue Reading »
Tony Nicklinson, the totally paralyzed man in the UK who lost his court quest to be legally euthanized, has died of pneumonia. From the Yahoo News story:A man left paralysed but fully conscious and aware of his predicament died Wednesday, days after losing a legal bid to end his life of “pure . . . . Continue Reading »
Women are slightly more likely than men to say that abortion should be illegal when the pregnancy results from rape, according to Gallup . This counterintuitive gender gap holds when the mother’s life is threatened, when her physical health is endangered, when the pregnancy results from . . . . Continue Reading »
“There is a nice passage in Joseph de Maistre, the counter-revolutionary, the enemy of the French Revolution, where he says that human beings are not able to build things, because when they try to create something they do not get it. You cannot really produce new and interesting things. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
Solidarity or Bi-polarity? Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion David Foster Wallace’s God D. T. Max, Newsweek The Talmud’s Warriors and Scholars Adam Kirsch, Tablet A Pop-Culture Inferno Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair When Romney Was a Pastor Jason Horowitz, . . . . Continue Reading »
Critics of global warming hysteria have noted that the movement often appears to have a religious feel. But now, a Guardian columnist makes the approach explicit. From, “If We Are to Cope With Climate Change We Need a New Moral Order,” by Andrew Brown:It’s . . . . Continue Reading »
NRO has an interview with the much-admired-by-pomocons political philosopher Pierre Manent . Read it and “like” it. . . . . Continue Reading »
The entire Catholic community—-in Germany and throughout the world—- must stand with Rabbi Goldberg and speak out against his prosecution for performing circumcisions of male infants in compliance with their parents’ wishes and Jewish law. The threats to religious liberties . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week’s verdict from a Moscow court on the fate of dissident punk band Pussy Riot seems to have divided religious commentators in unexpected ways—here’s Rod Dreher on the ordeal; for a different (and sympathetic) take, see John O’Sullivan at NRO; and of . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on evangelization and tolerance : There is a video going around the internet—it seems to arrive in my email box every other day from another Catholic offering it as evidence of Americans antipathy toward the church. In the video, which was taken in early August, some . . . . Continue Reading »
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