Articles by Diogenes

So here’s the next move in the culture wars, an editorial cloud no bigger than a man’s suspiciously well-groomed hand. The Los Angeles Times has an editorial deploring the Holy See’s new “Guidelines for the […]

Ho hum. Yet another transgressive artist has signaled his creativity by joining the queue of aesthetes employing and cashing in on a 12-yearold boy’s categories of impiety: ROME–An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict […]

An article in Georgetown University’s newspaper The Hoya welcomes the new director of the school’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) Resource Center and does some end-zone celebration for our benefit. Georgetown, you may remember, […]

Commonweal’s editor Paul Baumann has an article in that magazine’s June 6 issue discussing the Catholic experts tapped by the media to comment on Pope Benedict’s recent visit to the US. Interesting is his suspicion—or, […]

Remember that serial dilution technique you learned in high school chemistry? You mix one part base or acid with nine parts solvent, and then take that solution and add nine parts solvent, and so continue […]

Ten years ago, on January 17, a news aggregator and part-time journalist named Matt Drudge broke the story of President Bill Clinton’s liaison with intern Monica Lewinsky—or, more precisely, he published on his Web site […]

“Ask Me About Gene!” crowed the lapel buttons worn by liberal delegates to the Episcopal Church’s General Convention in August of 2003. The big issue of that Minneapolis meeting was whether to ratify the election […]

Reminding us yet again of the secular dogma that the Church spreads AIDS by discountenancing the condom, public-health wonks are concerned that it’s those individuals rigidly scrupulous about Catholic doctrine, like Magic Johnson, who put […]