A powerful quote from a source that might surprise some readers: Beneath the issue of contraception is a question about the role ideals and norms play in our communal lives. Yes, they restrict our behavior […]
• Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age. By Gregory Wolfe (Wilmington: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011). 278 pages. One Friday afternoon before Christmas break last year, a seminarian came by my office […]
The Vatican actually has a council that deals with the pastoral care of tourists. It met in Cancun, Mexico, not an unknown tourist resort, April 23-27. Benedict directed a short but significant letter to the […]
Just released by the Thomas More Society: “Legal War” for IRS if Churches Are Attacked for Speaking Out on Issues Thomas More Society Promises a Free and Aggressive Legal Defense To Any Religious Leaders Targeted […]
This is newsworthy for the simple reason it is rare to hear of a secular newspaper or other news outlet praise the Catholic Church for how it has addressed the sexual abuse scandal. And it […]
This piece in today’s edition of Vatican Information Service contains several interesting remarks about China, especially regarding the ongoing confusions caused by illegitimately ordained bishops: Vatican City, 26 April 2012 (VIS) – The Commission for […]
In an interview with National Review Online’s Robert Costa, Rep. Paul Ryan denies that he is, as Paul Krugman claimed in the New York Times, “an Ayn Rand devotee,” calling such descriptions of his political […]
From the moment the United States Bishops announced on April 18 that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) had issued a document ordering a supervised renewal of the Leadership Conference of Women […]
The following has been posted on the LCWR site: The national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will meet May 29 – June 1, 2012 to begin its discussion of the conclusions of the Congregation […]
From a Catholic News Agency piece about a recent online debate between Ross Douthat, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, and Slate magazine author William Saletan: Douthat also urged Saletan, and others who dismiss the […]
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