David Mills

Now up on “On the Square”: A tribute to Michael Novak , who is among many other things our long-time board member and writer. Writing on what he calls “the total Novak phenomenon,” Christopher DeMuth praises Novak’s industrious, audacity, courage, and . . . . Continue Reading »

“It is as a man of faith that the Church beatified John Henry Newman,” not (directly anyway) because of he was a great thinker, writer, and preacher, writes George Weigel in today’s “On the Square,” Newman’s Faith . And suggests why with a moving and . . . . Continue Reading »

There about 820,000 Orthodox Christians in the United States, of whom about 200,000 regularly attend church, according to the 2010 Census of Orthodox Churches in the United States . The number rises to 1,050,000 and 280,000 if the Oriental Orthodox Churches that are not in communion with . . . . Continue Reading »

In England, the government has said that it may give married couples with children a tax break, to replace money lost by the abolition of the universal child payment, worth 1,700 pounds to a couple with two children. In Connecticut, cheerleaders demand uniforms that cover more of them . “I am . . . . Continue Reading »

“Reasonable Catholicism is reasoned loyalty, or sometimes even loyalty with gritted teeth ,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square,” The Reasoned Loyalty of Catholicism . That kind of loyalty brings insight. She begins with John Henry Newman as the great . . . . Continue Reading »

An video interview and a written interview with the Australian writer Melinda Tankard Reist, leader of a new activist group working against the sexualization of girls and society. The first deals more with the issue and the second with the practical details of her campaign against . . . . Continue Reading »

William Doino, who with Ronald Rychlak wrote Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis for us, made a striking point in a message about the need to stand up not just for the pope for for others so slandered: There is a line in the fine film, A Cry in the Dark (Meryl Streep), about a woman falsely . . . . Continue Reading »

The pope denounces the “evil” of the Sicilian mafia . Benedict urged Sicilians to be “ashamed of evil, which offends God and man” and called them to bring organised crime. which “injures the civil and religious community,” into the open, reports  The Daily . . . . Continue Reading »

A new and cheering venture: the Student Free Press Association . “Run by veteran journalists for the benefit of beginning journalists,” according to its website, the SFPA is “is an individual membership organization of college-aged writers, bloggers, tweeters, podcasters, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Joe’s ridiculous dissing of Rocky and  Bullwinkle last week reminded me of one of those startling experiences of moral disjunction one has from time to time. Ten or so years ago,  I was squatting down in a local video store looking on a low shelf for Rocky and Bullwinkle videos . . . . Continue Reading »