This week the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. Maureen Dowd, meanwhile, is castigating the Church via her own little Feast of Condescension, filled with her usual sour soundbites and tasteless morsels. […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addressed the graduates of Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute today. She said that public service is “the most challenging, frustrating, exciting, consequential, and rewarding career there is” and […]
Sean Collins, a self-described “New York progressive” explains why he is not evolving along with President Obama: The growing clamour in favour of gay marriage has led me to recognise that it is important to […]
An excerpt from Francis Cardinal George’s May 20th column in Catholic New World: Because public discussion of the Department of Health and Human Services’ interpretation of the requirements of the health care reform legislation will […]
I’m sure the philosopher Roger Scruton, one of my favorite living authors, would quickly say it is not his wisdom, but the wisdom gained from experience, religion, time, thought, observation, tradition, and theological insight, applied to […]
Despite the fact that nearly the entire plot of Blue Like Jazz is preoccupied with its main character’s loss and eventual recovery of his Christian faith, its director, Steve Taylor, insists that it is not […]
“Faith’s recognition of the essential unity of all knowledge provides a bulwark against the alienation and fragmentation which occurs when the use of reason is detached from the pursuit of truth and virtue; and in this sense, […]
The Boston Globe sounds the warning: Dan Brown is working on a new novel. The acclaimed pulp fiction peddler has this to say: I can tell you there is another book in progress. I am […]
From Vatican Information Service, on the Holy Father’s most recent general audience: Vatican City, 16 May 2012 (VIS) – After having examined prayer in the Acts of the Apostles, Benedict XVI announced that he will […]
From the CNN blog, which follows “The View” more closely than I do: Less than a week after President Barack Obama made history by endorsing same-sex marriage, the president would not commit to fighting to […]
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