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Gregory A. Thornbury’s Mission to Revive Carl F. H. Henry
Gregory A. Thornbury, the recently-announced incoming president of the King’s College, has a great task ahead of him. The institution he will lead announces that its mission is to...
Obesity Fight an International Disease
We no longer perceive ourselves to be free people making good or bad personal choices from which we will either benefit or suffer. Instead, our personal problems are being...
How A Better GOP Can Do Better Among Nonwhite Voters
Is the Supreme Court’s decision to make it easier for states to institute voter ID laws a gift to the center left? So argues Ross Douthat , who points...
Restoring Your Heart, the Church, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral
In the last few weeks, the scaffolding covering all 330 feet of the Fifth Avenue façade of St. Patrick’s Cathedral has started to come down. The cathedral, which is...
Priests and Politics Don’t Mix
America’s history suggests the clergy best steer clear of politics, says Mark D. Tooley in today’s column . Eighteen eighty-four’s election was one of the nation’s dirtiest, and clergy...
Remembering Andrew Greeley
Let me begin by paying Fr. Andrew Greeley, who died this past May 29, a compliment he’d never have paid me, or indeed anyone of my “location” in the...
Santo Subito! Blessed John Paul II Will Be Declared a Saint
The Vatican has approved the the last miracle needed to confirm John Paul II’s sainthood, says the Italian news agency ANSA . All that’s needed is a signature from...
He Died in a Loving Place, Inside Me
In a recent New York Times piece, Judy Nicastro referred to the abortion of one of her twins conceived through I.V.F., who she was told would have malformed organs: “We...
He Died in a Loving Place, Inside Me
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Antonin Scalia, Bad Person
It was easy to miss but on June 30 the New York Post carried brief editorial remarks by Michael Goodwin that read: Count me among those cheering the Supreme...
Reno: The Virtues of Empire
“It’s a sad truth that the democratic and populist impulse, if given the political means, almost always engages in some form of ethnic cleansing,” says R. R. Reno in...
Land of the Free, Home of the Surveilled
“The stunning news that the United States may be the most surveilled society in human history has opened a fierce debate on security, privacy, and accountability,” says Timothy George...
Marriage and Justice Wounded, But Not Fatally
“It could have been worse,” says Matthew Franck in today’s column . “That is what the defenders of conjugal marriage are saying after the brace of Supreme Court rulings issued yesterday...
Spiliakos: Democrats Have the Only Game in Town
“For all their differences, the missing white voters and disappointed Democratic-voting nonwhites have one thing in common,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column , “Neither sees a reason to...
Thomas F. Torrance: Scientists Get Him, Theologians Don’t
“2013 marks the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, Thomas F. Torrance” who believed that “modern western theology . . ....
