Month: February 2012

George Weigel first (and rightly) blasts the “ill-educated Catholics in Congress” and the Catholic Health Association, then discusses how “liberal Catholicism” has (not surprisingly, I must say) sold the baby and the bath water for […]

From the February 18, 2012, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: But on Thursday afternoon in Washington, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, told a panel of lawmakers in the U.S. […]

From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) – In St. Peter’s Basilica at 10.30 a.m. this morning, Benedict XVI celebrated the fourth ordinary public consistory of his pontificate, during which he created […]

From a February 16th statement issued by the Sisters of Life, “a contemplative / active religious community of women founded in 1991 by John Cardinal O’Connor for the protection and enhancement of the sacredness of […]

Br. Thomas More Garret, a Dominican who used to work in law and as a Congressional staffer, discusses an overlooked, uh, feature of the HHS mandate: But there is an equally serious, largely unnoticed consequence […]

On the National Review site: (1) The first deception is that the president has issued a “contraception mandate.” It is not that; it is a presidential power grab. No state or other jurisdiction is trying […]

In 1956, in his book, The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine, Professor Herbert Deane at Columbia University wrote: “Only with the rise of totalitarian societies in the twentieth century has a new general effort […]