David Mills

In “ Simple Justice ,” published today on the excellent Public Discourse website, Notre Dame’s Richard Garnett argues, persuasively to my mind, for public funding of schools outside the public school’s taxpayer-funded near-monopoly, a monopoly supported by the assumption that . . . . Continue Reading »

• He was delivering a donation to the little Catholic bookshop in a rough part of town, wrote a friend who, despite his considerable gifts, has suffered a very long period of unemployment. As soon as he walked into the Sacred Heart bookshop in Pittsburgh, the sisters asked him what he needed . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend Anne Barbeau Gardiner writes in the last issue of the New Oxford Review  about an article by Richard Dawkins, published in the English newspaper The Guardian in 2009, on the ramifications of creating a human-chimpanzee hybrid. It offers the usual anti-humanist dream. In the article , . . . . Continue Reading »

“This hollowing out of marriage in mainstream America is among the most consequential social facts of our era,” declares A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage, just released by the Institute for American Values. “It’s contributing to the growth of inequality, harming . . . . Continue Reading »

Cats, declares a writer on Slate.com, are evil. Reporting on New Zealander zoologist Gareth Morgan’s plea to eliminate cats from his country because they’re killing off all sorts of birds and other animals we’d much rather have instead, Laura Helmuth notes that “Cats are . . . . Continue Reading »

An easy target, I admit, but also irresistable: a clerical fashion show in which English clerics of various denominations walk the catwalk wearing chasables, capes, clergy shirts, and clergy skirts (short). The  Daily Mail writer calls the vestments “cutting-edge,” but . . . . Continue Reading »

Lutherans, according to Reuters, “bristle” at the idea that the Catholic Church might offer a group for converts from Lutheranism who want to keep aspects of their tradition, as Anglicans wee offered an “ordinariate” in Benedict’s Anglicanorum Coetibus . Rev Martin . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest issue of  The Journal of Moral Theology , titled Christology , is just out and available online. Among the papers included are “Christ, Globalization, and the Church” “Modern Pluralism or Divine Plentitude? Toward a Christological Ontology,”, and a review . . . . Continue Reading »

Even for the English, and even for the Church of England, this is a little peculiar: The Church of St. Martin in the Fields yesterday offered a service, broadcast by the BBC, with the theme “Learning to Dream Again,” celebrating Barack Obama’s inauguration. The English blogger . . . . Continue Reading »

Some of us spent all or much of the weekend at this year’s New York Encounter , sponsored by the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. It’s an annual event and we’d recommend it for those of you in the area who might be able to come next year. Among the highlights for me was . . . . Continue Reading »