Anybody conversant in Catholic social ethics knows the basic principle of subsidiarity: small is beautiful. Decision and policy-making should be pressed down to the lowest level possible. It ensures both a personalistic touch and that […]
Various Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on Sunday, January 7. They do so out of calendar literalism: they cling to the Julian Calendar which, because of its imprecision in calculating the length of the earth’s annual […]
In these last days before Christmas, some reflections on Santa Claus, gifts, and our culture. The December 14th edition of the New York Times featured a twist on the tradition of Christmas wish lists. Once […]
Reactions have generally been negative to the December 5, 2023, appearance of three prestigious university presidents before the House Education and the Workforce Committee to address antisemitism on American college campuses in the wake of […]
As Thanksgiving 2023 recedes in the rearview mirror, it’s worth taking one look for a few moments at Joe Biden’s “Thanksgiving” Proclamation, published the day before the holiday. It’s said that one of the hardest […]
As we Catholics join our fellow Americans in marking Thanksgiving 2023, let me sound a contrarian note: I have doubts about just how thankful we really are. The greatest single gift human beings have is […]
Melissa Kearney’s The Two-Parent Privilege has caused something of a stir: a mainstream American academic (an economist) at a mainstream public university (Maryland) writing for a mainstream American university publisher (Chicago) in 2023, arguing that […]
Do you remember Sutherland Springs? Maybe not. We’ve grown so inured to atrocities that a six-year-old mass shooting probably long ago receded out of most people’s memories—if they don’t live in its vicinity. To recap: […]
The brutal massacre of Israeli women and children by Hamas terrorists on October 7th momentarily shocked the world. What seemed to shock people even more was the almost immediate demonstrations of “solidarity” with the Hamas […]
October 16, 2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the election of Karol Wojtyła as Pope (now Saint) John Paul II. And, like 45 years ago, the anniversary falls on a Monday. One could reminisce about […]
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