Matthew Schmitz

Is There a Jewish Concept of Beauty? David P. Goldman, Tablet Personally Opposed, but Sleeping with the Enemy Stephen J. Heaney, Public Discourse The Rise of Urban Homeschooling Linda Perlstein, Newsweek A Counselor’s Convictions on Trial Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times Army Silences Chaplains . . . . Continue Reading »

Today the Wall Street Journal features Richard Cipolla’s reflections on living as a married Catholic priest. Among other things, Cipolla speaks in favor of priestly celibacy: My experience as a married Catholic priest for 28 years brings to mind several thoughts, both practical and spiritual. . . . . Continue Reading »

How to Fight the Man David Brooks, New York Times College May Lower Marriage Chances United Press International Divorce Counseling Law for Couples with Minors Loretta Park, Standard-Examiner What Raskolnikov Knew Anthony Esolen, Touchstone Obama’s Touts Faith Laura MacInnis, Reuters . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing at Get Religion , Mollie Ziegler Hemingway nails down the essence of the Komen for the Cure fracas. Liberals aghast over Komen’s move are being forced to acknowledge that Planned Parenthood is very far from the uncontroversial, mainstream organization they thought it was: . . . . Continue Reading »

The Fight After Komen Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today Christian Fears in Arab Spring Oren Dorell and Sarah Lynch, USA Today Conservatives and Poverty Ryan T. Anderson, Public Discourse WA Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill Rachel La Corte, Associated Press Contraception Mandate Not Just a . . . . Continue Reading »

There has been a spate of stories about Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupting pro-life events (on one occasion , they reportedly showered a group of female Catholic students with condoms). All this has led Ben Johnson to ask, “Why does Occupy Wall Street support Big Abortion?”: The . . . . Continue Reading »

Komen Drops Planned Parenthood Support Sarah Pulliam Bailey and Ted Olsen,  Christianity Today Steven Pinker’s Wrongness on Dignity Christopher Kaczor, Public Discourse Capitalism and the Hebrew Bible Aryeh Spero, Wall Street Journal Should the Church Have to Dispense Birth Control? . . . . Continue Reading »

Charles Murray’s Values Inequality W. Bradford Wilcox, Wall Street Journal An Administration’s Against Civil Society Yuval Levin, National Review Catholic Colleges Consider Trustee Roles Libby A. Nelson, Inside Higher Ed Nature, Nurture, and Liberal Values Roger Scruton, Prospect . . . . Continue Reading »

BuzzFeed responds to recent ribbing of Mitt Romney with a helpful primer on “garments,” the underclothes worn by Mormons: Though it’s common in Mormon-mocking rhetoric to use some variation on “magic Mormon undies” to describe the garment ( paging Bill Maher ), . . . . Continue Reading »

Actually, Gay Marriage Is Discriminatory Patrick Lee, Public Discourse HHS Mandate No Liberal Victory Ross Douthat, New York Times Rabbis Face Off Over Kosher Jesus Randy Boswell, National Post Germany Has Fastest Growing Jewish Population Ofer Adaret, Haaretz Time to Press for Vouchers Charles J. . . . . Continue Reading »