The film Nine Days That Changed The World is about JPII’s pilgrimage to Poland in 1979 while it was still under the Soviet Union’s control. It documents the uproar his visit caused and how fragile the Communist hold over that country really was. His stay sparked the Solidarity . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier today I wrote about The Emerging Church’s Reinvented Wheel . Readers interested in the subject of the “emerging church” and related movements that claim to be engaging postmodernity will enjoy our friend Matthew Milliner’s 9.5 Theses . (Through the creative use of . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Mark DeGirolami at Mirror of Justice, I see that Italy is contemplating a ban of veils worn by Muslim women: An Italian parliamentary commission on Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft passed by the constitutional affairs . . . . Continue Reading »
Islamist factions jockey for power, vow religious rule , reports Betsy Hiel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , reporting from Egypt, where she had to don a headcovering to interview members of the Salafist movement. They follow no centralized hierarchy; their religious philosophy can vary, as can . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an odd lawsuit. A pro life Democrat, former Congressman Steve Driehaus, was accused by the Susan B. Anthony List in ads (such as the one to the left) of supporting government funding of abortion by voting for Obamacare. He lost his campaign for reelection and sued SBAL for . . . . Continue Reading »
As an outsider to American Evangelicalism, though a sympathetic one, I admit to being bemused by the movement’s taste for what seems to me reinventing the wheel. To be clear, this is true of its hipper elements, though not of people like my friends Russell Moore, Peter Leithart, and Darryl . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in our first feature article, Elizabeth Scalia diagnoses ” A Dictatorship of Sentimentalism “: I wonder if the dictatorship of relativism would be so comfortably entrenched within our society, were it not resting upon a bed of snuggly sentimentalism weaved through prosperity . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes I think some in our society would rewrite the First Amendment to read, “Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...or the right of the people peaceably to assemble—-unless you are a pro lifer.” Consider: Peaceful protesters are barred from . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The president’s incompetence in the debt-ceiling pro-wrestling fake crisis was rather stunning. 2. He said the Republicans were acting irresponsibly by provoking default to get one-sided policy/budgetary reform with no real popular or legislative deliberation. There is something to that . . . . Continue Reading »
Obama Contraceptive Decision Assaults Conscience National Catholic Register , Joan Frawley Desmond An Open Letter to the HHS on Conscience Protection America , John Garvey Review of Alan Jacobs’ The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction City Journal , Brian Patrick Eha Life and . . . . Continue Reading »
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