David Mills

A friend responding to my The Changed Times Don’t Last , one of Monday’s “On the Square” articles, sent the link to a website called Rightwing Bob . The site’s owner writes in his description of what he’s doing that he seeks to redress the balance a little bit. . . . . Continue Reading »

Liturgical scholar Peter Elliott explains why need a new translation of the Mass , with lots of examples. The “dynamic equivalance” or paraphrase of the present translation “can fail to give us not only what the Latin original means, which is bordering on telling lies, but . . . . Continue Reading »

In Cult Complex , today’s second “On the Square” article, Ashley Samelson McGuire of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty gives a survey of the ways in which governments try to limit religious freedom by redefining religions as cults or associations or ideologies. France, for . . . . Continue Reading »

A few articles on the election and what it means that readers might not have seen: Pro-Life Democrats Ousted as Election Centers on the Economy. “Three of the four Democrats most heavily targeted by SBAL lost their seats, including Reps. Steve Driehaus (Ohio) and Kathy Dahlkemper (Penn.). . . . . Continue Reading »

Calvary Church in Pittsburgh, an Episcopal church in an affluent neighborhood known before that diocese divided as one of its bastions of liberalism, recently presented its people with A Seusscharist , “based on the works of Theodore Seuss Geisel.” Yes. Exactly. It begins: Celebrant . . . . Continue Reading »

The Franciscan University of Steubenville will be offering a symposium on John Henry Newman on Saturday, November 13th. Wheaton College’s Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals is sponsoring a conference titled ” Saving the World? The Changing Terrain of American Protestant . . . . Continue Reading »

Politics is important, but it has to be put in its place, writes R. R. Reno in American Politics, the Higher Politics, and First Things . In today’s first “On the Square” article, he argues that we have a deep reason and a practical reason for not investing too . . . . Continue Reading »

The descendants of  Nathaniel Grigsby must have been voting yesterday. . . . . Continue Reading »

“Here’s the problem with ‘maybe’: It means different things to different people. And something always gets lost in translation . . . ,” writes Elizabeth Bernstein in The Many Powers of Maybe . “‘It seems to be about ambivalence, but it is really about power . . . . Continue Reading »

In Thoughts at the Alamo , today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel argues that the Mexican-American war was “from one point of view, a war by what was a sometimes-militantly Protestant country against what had long been a deeply Catholic country.” But it . . . . Continue Reading »