Amanda Shaw

“I’m neither pro-life nor pro-choice, but this is the best pro-life ad I’ve ever seen.” So said one NBC employee, after watching CatholicVote.org ‘s latest ad, ” Life: Imagine the Potential .” If you haven’t seen this forty-second film yet, by all . . . . Continue Reading »

Chuck Colson, in last week’s issue of Christianity Today , reflects on the death of his friend Richard John Neuhaus and the origins and future of their joint ecumenical project, Evangelicals and Catholics Together . The two became friends when RJN was a Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor and both . . . . Continue Reading »

The news is being triumphantly proclaimed, under banners of scientific liberation and medical messianism: The FDA yesterday approved the first trial of embryonic stem-cell treatment. It is a “research milestone,” says the New York Times , a “watershed moment,” adds the Wall . . . . Continue Reading »

From the makers of the immensely popular Catholic Vote comes this short film. Something worth considering on Inauguration Day and during the years to come . . . www.CatholicVote.com . . . . Continue Reading »

In a recent open letter to Barack Obama, Francis Cardinal George outlines the “principles and priorities” which will “make this period of national change a time to advance the common good and defend the life and dignity of all.” Writing on behalf of the United States . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week Pope Benedict XVI expressed his gratitude for Avery Cardinal Dulles’ life and work , and his condolences on his recent death. In a letter to New York’s Cardinal Egan, the Holy Father wrote: Having learned with sadness of the death of Cardinal Avery Dulles, I offer you my . . . . Continue Reading »

You may have read on our homepage : Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., died this morning at age ninety. I was not privileged to know him well, but I will not forget visiting him with Nathaniel this fall at Fordham. He could not talk, but his eyes were as bright as ever, especially as we told him stories . . . . Continue Reading »

December 10, 1948—sixty years ago today—the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born. Promulgated as the smoke of the death camps still lingered, the document was a stunned world’s attempt to enshrine human rights and dignity, to ensure that such “contempt for human . . . . Continue Reading »

On January 19 Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard law professors and former FT board member, will be leaving her post as US ambassador to the Vatican. At just over a year, her term will be the shortest ever for this position, but thanks to her wisdom and zeal it was, according to the National Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

A CA reader passes along this link—an online search engine , hosted by SF Gate and the San Francisco Chronicle , which enables readers, at the click of a mouse, to find donors for and against CA’s gay-marriage ban. It’s a tidy piece of technology in many ways, compiling information . . . . Continue Reading »