As Benedict XVI celebrates his seventh year in the Chair of St. Peter (and his 85th birthday) this week, Marco Tosatti at Vatican Insider offers some information you’re not likely to hear from most media outlets, detailing some of the quietly transformative work this pope has been . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno reminds us to keep our focus on things above : “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” So wrote St. Paul to the Colossians, reminding them that if they have been raised with Christ, then they should direct their minds and their lives toward . . . . Continue Reading »
The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage Meg Jay, New York Times Reclaiming the UN’s Universal Declaration Piero A. Tozzi, Turtle Bay and Beyond Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Feminism Barbara Wheeler, Dappled Things My Life as a Failed Country Gentleman P. J. O’Rourke, . . . . Continue Reading »
Prominent Vatican reporter John Allen has published a piece in the National Catholic Reporter following the papal visit to Cuba entitled “ Benedict XVI and the Lament of the Hawks ,” about a supposed lack of conservative confidence in Benedict, which cites my recent piece for First Things . . . . Continue Reading »
The German weekly Der Spiegel carries a fascinating article: Israel’s Other Temple: Research Reveals Ancient Struggle over Holy Land Supremacy, by Matthias Schulz. The charge that Jews revised the biblical narrative at the expense of the Samaritans is not new, but this article claims that . . . . Continue Reading »
Not a movie I would have expected to see, but one that looks quite interesting: Holy Rollers , subtitled “The True Story of Card Counting Christians.” One of the young men interviewed in the trailer explains: “It doesn’t seem like one of the most noble things a person can do . . . . Continue Reading »
We shouldn’t always get what we want—particularly when it comes at the cost of exploiting the world’s destitute or taking advantage of despotic circumstances to benefit personally. But we do. Westerners increasingly go to poor countries and use the living . . . . Continue Reading »
when he writes “ if pressure could be put on Bush to nix Harriet Miers in lieu of Samuel Alito, then I suspect that, if circumstance opened the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice, similar effective pressure could be put on Romney from conservatives.” Romney might . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioedge published a good article this week discussing the claim by some bioethicists that parents be required to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to eradicate unwanted heritable conditions. From “Parents Have a Duty to Use IVF, Say Bioethicists:”Janet Malek, of East Carolina . . . . Continue Reading »
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