The Huffington Post featured a particularly ugly screed by Frank Schaeffer. He claims to be providing a service to the Republic by exposing “the loony Reconstructionist/Theonomist” agenda of people like Robert George and Richard John Neuhaus. Schaeffer is a great exaggerator, what . . . . Continue Reading »
Something else on Ash Wednesday, admittedly two weeks late: Lutheran pastor Gregory Alms’ essay on Ash Wednesday , originally published in the Concordia Theological Quarterly . It begins: Ash Wednesday is the story of a marriage. It is the account of an unlikely union. Humanity and . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps it is me, but since the passage of Obamacare and its radical push for cost-containment, I have noticed a big spike in the number of articles trying to convince people to let go when they become seriously ill rather than fight to stay alive. The latest example is in the Wall Street . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on the Catholic diaspora and the tragedy of liberal Catholicism : In a February 14 note to his people, Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I., the archbishop of Chicago, commented on the question of “who speaks for the Catholic Church,” which had become a subject of public . . . . Continue Reading »
A good day for devoted readers of Hadley Arkes’ work and for anyone concerned with the natural law and its expression in American public life. The Claremont Institute has launched Right Reason , a “journal dedicated to the application of natural law reasoning to past and current court . . . . Continue Reading »
The Politico , not exactly the least favorable of press outlets to the President, has posted a story about the “Quiet Fade-Out” of the much ballyhooed Obama Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. It issued a very wordy report a couple of . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a bit difficult to fathom why so many professional commentators are reacting to efforts to defuse the serious unrest in Afghanistan with dyspepsia. Specifically, and rather oddly, the opposition to America’s approach (which has now come from pundits on both sides of the political . . . . Continue Reading »
First off, my apologies for being absent for the last few days. I’ve been at ASSUMPTION COLLEGE in the Taxachussetts home of RomneyCare and others forms of soft despotism. (Assumption is actually quite a fine college, of course.) I would vote for Romney if he would set his hair on fire. That . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend writes in response to my exegesis of the Ash Wednesday liturgy, The Dust of Adam , which I should have posted but forgot: “It was a good supplement to the decidedly less bracing version of the rite I received last night: ‘Repent and be faithful to the gospel’.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Colorado Debates Public Funding for Circumcision Naomi Zeveloff, Jewish Daily Forward Scholasticism and Political Freedom: An Interview Russell Hittinger, Liberty Law Site Anglicans Seek a Quiet Strength Alan Cowell, New York Times Nostalgia is the Enemy of Faith Collin Hansen, The Gospel . . . . Continue Reading »
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