Special Report

The Contraception Contradiction

May 28, 2012 Daniel Allott 0

[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published one year ago in the May 2011 issue of Catholic World Report.]  New York City is the abortion capital of America. More than 40 percent of pregnancies in New York […]

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The Blaire Switch Project

May 26, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

News broke a couple of days ago, via America magazine, that Bishop Stephen E. Blaire (Diocese of Stockton, CA), had some serious questions about how the bishops were addressing the HHS mandate: Bishops Blaire acknowledged […]

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Bring on the butler jokes

May 26, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

Espionage is not a joking matter (nor is it anywhere as exciting as it is portrayed on the screen) and stealing from the Pope—while not the biblical, damning sin against the Holy Spirit—is certainly a […]

Film & Music

The Serious Lessons of Super Heroes

May 25, 2012 Meryl Kaleida 0

Marvel’s The Avengers took in $207.4 million on its opening weekend, smashing the previous box office record for an opening weekend held by the most recent Harry Potter film. Does it live up to the […]

Books

Bad Religion, Bad Results

May 24, 2012 Christopher White 0

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Free Press (New York, 2012) 337 pages. In a 2005 study conducted by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, they found that […]