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11.20.09
Matthew Hanley
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11.19.09
James V. Schall, S. J.
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11.18.09
Mary Eberstadt
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11.17.09
Ralph McInerny
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11.16.09
Robert Royal
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COMMENTARY
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The story behind one of the few movies ever recommended by the Vatican. |
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The American government refuses to acknowledge the medieval abuses of Christians at the hands of the Palestinian Authority. |
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On the likelihood that the Affordable Health Care Act will confirm the Hyde Amendment. |
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One might point out Christianity’s historical shortcomings in order to avoid demonizing Islam alone. But, we should also avoid demonizing Christianity and be prepared to point out Islam’s ... |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
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Hell pays
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By Michael Fitzgerald, Boston Globe
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Economic researchers have found that religion is a great boon to economic trust, especially when people believe in Hell. |
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Denying at the outset the Islamist motivations of men such as Major Nidal Malik Hasan does no favor to Muslims. |
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
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Fort Hood therapy
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By David Brooks, New York Times
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The columnist says that the response to the Ft. Hood murders denied the possibility of evil - not the “reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.” |
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The writer reminds us of a few homely truths about "tragic" events. |
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This week the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding its first major conference on astrobiology, the new science that seeks to find life elsewhere in the cosmos and to understand how... |
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The pope reminds us of the conflict between Abelard and Bernard, and how it shows why good intentions are not enough. |
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The leader of Blue Dog Democrats explains what needs to be done to healthcare propoals to make them abortion neutral. |
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A reminder that, historically, religion and science have been mostly interdependent, not antagonistic. |
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Archbishop Luigi Ventura made a big impression as papal nuncio in Canada and promises to do even more in his new post in Paris. |
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Friday, 30 October 2009 |
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A black pope?
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By Richard Owen, London Times
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With the appointment of Cardinal Peter Turkson as head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the prospects for a black pope may have just increased. |
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The Holy Father is, not surprisingly, following his own good judgments and intuitions. |
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Hide the kids and the cats, Obama’s “Safe Schools” Czar is an Act Up radical. |
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
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The hollow men
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By Paul Belien, Hudson Institute
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The European Union seems bent on ending “not with a bang but a whimper,” as it contemplates banning criticism of Islam and homosexuality. |
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Whatever else may come of the Catholic-Anglican entente, we may see a united Christian front against the Islamic challenge. |
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Hard to believe, but some researchers are wondering if God is causing a doomsday device to malfunction . . . from the future. |
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L’Osservatore Romano reports that the “Vatican” is reappraising . . . Marx? |
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Why do some theologians object? |
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The Holy Father on the “last of the Fathers” and the personal encounter with God. |
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Some suggestions about how to deal with swine flu in churches. |
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Are we headed into yet another round of fruitless negotiations in the Middle East? |
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The complex relations between faith and politics. |
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Could it be our modern sages have it wrong about global warming? |
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As Mr. Obama considers America’s options in Afghanistan, a reconsideration of just-war theory. |
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One Protestant’s view of the Holy Father’s message to Europe’s dwindling faithful. |
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Yet another Obama appointee has come under fire, this time for promoting "Queer Studies” in elementary education. |
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The columnist considers arguments made about faith by Karen Armstrong in her new book, The Case for God. |
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
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The great failure
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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Communist China is just fine after sixty years, if you don't mind a little religious persecution, political repression, and social disruption. |
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
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Unequal lives
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By Adam Graham, Pajamas Media
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Mainstream media have increasingly been criticized for ignoring uncomfortable stories—perhaps none more so than violence against pro-lifers. |
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Questions of authority, personality, and theology will accompany Benedict XVI’s 2010 visit to Great Britain. |
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
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Radical fertility
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By Jonathan V. Last, Wall Street Journal
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Large families are helping to subsidize our retirement at considerable costs to themselves. Instead of mocking them, we ought to thank them. |
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The current debate has raised a simple question: is abortion health care or not? |
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Media coverage of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives shows a marked difference – some say double standard – since President Bush left, and President Obama arrived.
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
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Right to health care?
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
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The Declaration of Independence pronounces it a self-evident truth that human beings “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’’ - rights that include life, liber... |
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Benedict XVI says that a radical change of life is needed in this era of moral weakness. |
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A commentator argues that the Kennedy funeral was marred by crass politicization. |
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A homily on the state of the Church in America.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died a few weeks ago, showed that a political liberal can be pro-life. |
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In Europe, the Church is running away from the reality of immigration. |
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How religious freedom functions as an instrument for progress and stability.
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The Kennedy legacy has always been about American roylaty and the appetites of kings and the uses of myth. |
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Janet Daley reflects on the three brothers whose politics inspired Sixties idealism, but whose sordid private lives helped to destroy it.
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A new book offers accounts of experiencing a supportive presence in extreme situations. |
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Monday, 17 August 2009 |
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Faith Based
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By Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post
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Comparing the media's harsh treatment of Bush's faith-based initiatives with the kid gloves it has used towards Obama's is revealing, says Kathleen Parker.
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She and her husband created the Special Olympics and the Peace Corps, and they deserve our prayers.
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“By what right,” Cardinal Rigali asks Congress, “and by what precedent, would [you] make abortion coverage into a nationwide norm . . .?
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