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Good and Evil in Zimbabwe
Archbishop Emeritus of Bulawayo Pius Ncube and Minister of Education, Sport, and Culture David Coltart Millions went to the polls last Wednesday in the small Southern African nation of...
New York City’s Uprising
New York City election headlines have been dominated by the bizarre escapades of the lecherous Anthony Weiner or the suave front-running of Christine Quinn. Social conservatives in the Big...
Educational Compulsions
In his On the Square this morning , Russell E. Saltzman reports on a curious proposal in Utah: Utah state senator Aaron Osmond has proposed eliminating compulsory public school...
Why U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy Fails
In a follow-up to last week’s piece on America’s international efforts for religious freedom, George Weigel lays out some of the reasons for Washington’s placidity while religious minorities suffer...
The Thomistic Institute Presents: “The Art of the Beautiful”
Our friends at the Thomistic Institute are proud to announce a series of six lectures at the Catholic Center at New York University, themed around the Catholic faith’s intersection...
Population Planners’ Bad Math
In today’s On the Square , Keith Riler debunks the notion that abortion saves money: The birth of anyone, poor or not, will yield substantial economic benefit. Specifically, in...
Don’t Tell the Press: Francis Is Using Them
In this morning’s column , Elizabeth Scalia gives the context for Pope Francis’ recent statements regarding homosexuality: On the return to Rome, the Holy Father—perhaps feeling energized by a...
The Restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral
The team undertaking the restoration of the Fifth Avenue cathedral have released a new video on their project: St. Patrick’s Transformation from St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Vimeo . Read...
The Failures of U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy
In today’s column , George Weigel explains that religious freedom should be a primary concern of American foreign policy. Not only is this a question of the first human...
Do Fine Things
In a May commencement address at the historically black Morehouse College, President Obama promoted same-sex marriage and cohabitation, advising the male audience of graduates to “Be the best husband...
Decay, or Renewal?
The recent New York Times exploration of the sexual world of the University of Pennsylvania claims that competitiveness and insecurity feed off each other to drive campus sexual culture:...
The Church in the Metropolis
Peter J. Leithart traces the decline of traditional denominationalism in today’s column : A 2009 Barna survey found that denominational commitments have gone squishy in mainline Protestant churches, and...
The Catholic Difference: A New Approach to Catholic History
“Evangelical Catholicism is not some 50-yard line between Catholic left and Catholic right, but a vision of Church far beyond those polarities,” argues George Weigel in today’s column ....
Disloyal Options on the Glorious Fourth
Flags and fireworks. Generous helpings of out-of-context Declaration of Independence quotes. Quite a few hot dogs—New York City street cart vendors making a killing. But all these constituent elements...
The NSA and the Man Who Was Shabbat
Recent revelations of the National Security Agency’s intrusive surveillance have provoked many nervous glances over the shoulder from Americans concerned to preserve individual civil liberties. Timothy George pointed...
