David Mills

On the Feast of the Assumption, it might be useful to post a few links explaining the dogma and the feast, since it is one of those matters on which First Things readers find themselves divided. And quite rightly, because it expresses deep differences in the way we understand the Church, read . . . . Continue Reading »

In The Economist , Catholicism, and Europe , Samuel Gregg gives that magazine’s coverage of religion qualified praise, as better than usual “though it usually slips in one of the usual secularist bromides, as if to reassure its audiences that it’s keeping a critical . . . . Continue Reading »

Following up on Heavy Coins, Light Bills , here is an advertisement from Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine : And while I’m at it, here’s another: . . . . Continue Reading »

In a L’Osservatore Romano article titled “Jesus and the Children,” the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments declared that “delaying first communion deprive[s] children . . . of this grace, work and presence of Jesus, of this . . . . Continue Reading »

Americans calling themselves sovereign citizens “don’t register children’s births, carry driver’s licenses or recognize the court system” and believe that “The government creates a secret identity for each citizen at birth, a ‘straw man,’ that . . . . Continue Reading »

You have probably gotten so used to seeing the announcement that you don’t notice it any more, but I commend to your attention our Students of Faith Survey . We would be grateful if readers who are in college or who graduated in the last couple of years would fill it out, and if the rest of . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert P. George (Princeton profile and photo  here and Wikipedia article here ) will be appearing this evening at 8:00 on Raymond Arroyo’s show, “The World Live” on EWTN. The network offers a channel finder . George is a member of the First Things board. Among his “On . . . . Continue Reading »

The Lutheran theologian David Yeago offered a seminary professor’s view of plagiarism among ministers in response to my Pastoral Plagiarism . It spurred me to look on the web for other articles of his, and I came across one from last year that might still interest some of you thinking about . . . . Continue Reading »

Middle-aged readers, at least those who grew up in certain areas, may remember that Sears was once the definition of uncool. It was the processed cheese spread of retailing. It was stereotypical middle America. Imagine my surprise when a friend sent out the link to a story titled  Sears: Where . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square,” Mary Rose Somarriba describes A Girl’s Life in the Cyberbubble . The sexualization of children, she writes, seems to be affecting girls more than boys, and sexualization is different from healthy sexuality. As Sax sees it, girls who dress sexy “prior . . . . Continue Reading »