David Mills

Something for your consideration, in case you haven’t seen it: The story of a Christian woman in rural Pakistan sentenced to death for being a Christian, who remains in prison where, according to a Pakistani Catholic priest, “she can be killed any time” . The latest news is that a . . . . Continue Reading »

A reminder: A Memorial Mass on the second anniversary of the death of  Father Richard John Neuhaus will be held tomorrow, Saturday, January 8, 2011, at the Church of Our Saviour (38th Street and Park Avenue). It will begin at  12:15 p.m. The celebrant and homilist will be Father . . . . Continue Reading »

David Tubbs of King’s College reviews Martha Nussbaum’s From Disgust to Humanity . She “wants to show that much of that opposition arises from what she calls the “politics of disgust”—a politics based on visceral reactions and disreputable attempts at . . . . Continue Reading »

Some recent events have left me pondering why people believe what they do. As I’ve gotten older, the connection between the head and the heart, and the intellect and the character, has only gotten more mysterious to me. People are more opaque, more unavailable, than I once thought. The young . . . . Continue Reading »

As Joe Carter reported earlier , the now former editor of the French edition of Vogue tries, or tried, to include “something every month that is — how you say? — not politically correct. A little bit at the limit. Sex, nudity, a bit rock’n’roll, a sense of humour.” . . . . Continue Reading »

“It seems to me that beginnings of a stealth New Crusade may be taking root in the minds of some of my Christian correspondents,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square” article. The proper Christian response, she says in Surrender Unto Surrender , is a . . . . Continue Reading »

Franciscan brothers from the Bronx settle in a rough Irish town . “And we were shown this area Moyross and it seemed like a perfect place: there were burnt out houses there was graffiti on walls there dogs and horses wandering around aimlessly sometimes kids wandering around,” said . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s “On the Square” column, I look at the magazine  Cosmopolitan and the gospel it preaches so relentlessly. It is, as you’d guess, not good news. “On the surface,” I argue in The Cosmopolitan Life , Cosmopolitan portrays in bright zingy prose the . . . . Continue Reading »

I would not want to be a Cosmogirl. The other day I picked up some copies of Cosmopolitan from the library sale table and was struck by how … pathetic is the apparent target reader, the 3,000,000-some Cosmogirls who buy the magazine (over half from a newsstand) and who seem really, really, to need a man. It is full of articles about finding a man, finding a good man, keeping a man, and pleasing a man, and though most are written in a bright and chirpy voice, the urgency and even desperation are not hard to see… . Continue Reading »

A Memorial Mass to honor the second anniversary of the death of  Father Richard John Neuhaus will be held on Saturday, January 8, 2011, at the Church of Our Saviour (38th Street and Park Avenue). It will begin at  12:15 p.m. The celebrant and homilist will be Father George . . . . Continue Reading »