Big news from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the law firm representing those challenging the Obama administration’s contraception mandate: Today [Tuesday, December 18], a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. handed Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey […]
The reason why Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is such a disappointment may perhaps be evident to those who have studied philosophy. For example, Trinity Western University professor Grant Havers, in his book Lincoln and the Politics […]
The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity by Christopher Dawson (London: Sheed and Ward, 1932; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003; new introduction and reprint) We have […]
More on the “O Antiphons” can be found here.
I have lived in China several times since my first stay in 1996, when I lived in Beijing as a Chinese language student. Deng Xiaoping was still alive then, and people thought that China was […]
Today marks the start of the “O Antiphons,” which are traditionally sung during Vespers on the seven days before Christmas. Fr. Z. has an excellent run-down on the antiphons and their place at the very […]
After spending half an hour with my wife in an empty theater before discovering that we were “mislocated” (I’m not the cleverest hobbit in the Shire), we raced to the right theater just as the […]
In the aftermath of the heartbreaking school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, the editors at the National Catholic Reporter have joined with the leaders of the Soros-supported advocacy organization Catholics United to demand […]
Today during his weekly Angelus address, Pope Benedict XVI addressed English-speaking pilgrims assembled in St. Peter’s Square, expressing his grief over Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT and offering prayers and condolences […]
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