Studio-Ready
When I started working as a reporter for a Catholic newspaper in London in 2004, I was soon struck by the number of opportunities there were for me to appear on television. Almost every week, […]
Month: May 2011
Essay
The Separation of God from public life
No one could say Jack Kennedy hadn’t seen it coming. In a conversation with his father after the 1956 election, the charismatic young senator from Massachusett s presented the case against his seeking the presidency […]
Promise Them Anything
If you read all the mainstream-media coverage of the August decision by Judge Royce Lamberth to stop US taxpayer funding for embryonic stemcell research, you probably noticed that two consistent themes emerged. Neither theme is […]
Essay
Atheism and Islam
The opposition to Islamization in Europe is often characterized by its critics as racist and xenophobic— composed of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and football hooligans. For a non-European it’s difficult to know how much truth there […]
Special Report
Learning From Alinsky
Although the Vatican has yet to complete its apostolic visitation of women’s religious communities in the United States, many Catholics are already aware that the more progressive religious orders have moved far from their original […]
With friends like these…
Everyone agreed that they were embarrassing. The only question was whether they were “excruciatingly embarrassing” or “cringe-making.” The subject was the pamphlets that were prepared by organizers of the Pope’s visit to the United Kingdom. […]
Essay
Can a Catholic be a Conservative?
Can a Catholic be a conservative? This is an important question at this particular time in America. The US is currently in the throes of a significant conservative movement. Yet it is not a question […]
Special Report
A Tale of Two Searches
Although we are very far from the “best of times” for Catholic higher education, things seemed to be moving away from the worst, at least for a few weeks this spring. Marquette University’s decision to […]
Editorial
Error Enjoys All the Rights
Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim professor with ties to terrorist activity whose visa was revoked in 2004, returned to American campuses this spring after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lifted his travel ban. Liberal intellectuals […]
Special Report
The Church’s Fight for Survival in China
Hong Kong remains Asia’s most modern city, bursting with people and rising materialism. Nestled within the island’s network of winding roads, steep escalators, and soaring skyscrapers is a small building that houses a community of […]