David Mills

William Doino, one of the authors of Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis published in “On the Square” last Thursday, has written  a review of Hubert Wolf’s Pope and Devil for  America . He shows in some detail how the book disproves the charges against the then Msgr. . . . . Continue Reading »

Today’s cheering news: The country’s Catholic bishops have just issued a statement that in their book The Sexual Person (which gives the game away right there) two Creighton University theologians “base their arguments on a methodology that marks a radical departure from the . . . . Continue Reading »

The story of an unlikely friendship between George Bernard Shaw and the heavyweight fighter Gene Tunney, Brains, Brawn and an Unlikely Bond . They even spent a month on holiday together in 1929. Two  stories about men from Salon.com: Men Edge Into Women’s Marathons (the jerks) and . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel’s The Pius Wars, Continued is now up on “On the Square.” . . . . Continue Reading »

Christians in India suffer the effects of the acts of individual Americans, reports the leader of a mission agency , who said Muslim mobs in India destroyed a church and a school in response to the burning of the Koran in Michigan. Although things appear to have settled down now, the incident . . . . Continue Reading »

In Founding Believers , today’s “On the Square” article, Joe Carter argues that the majority of America’s founding fathers — eight of the thirteen he evaluates — were not, as some like to claim, Christians, but Deists of one sort or another. Coming a little later: . . . . Continue Reading »

Marvelous:   The .Doc file of J. Alfred Prufrock . It begins: Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a laptop, put in sleep mode on a table Let us go through certain half-deserted streets The blinking-light retreats Of restless nights in free-wifi cafes . . . . Continue Reading »

“The search for consensus can result in a flattened document — or, as one bishop put it, documents that have found their least common denominator,” noted Bishop Robert Vasa, speaking on “The Bishop and the Conference” at the InsideCatholic Partnership Award Dinner. It . . . . Continue Reading »

Something that may interest those interested in the kind of restrictive separationism described in   Secularist Secularism : the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability’s policy statement Protecting the Religious Employment Practices of Churches and Religious Organizations . . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Scalia rises to defend Christine O’Donnell on two points for which she (O’Donnell) has been much ridiculed: her statements on lying and on masturbation. In today’s “On the Square” article, she describes O’Donnell as like Palin-Lite; half the experience, . . . . Continue Reading »