Mark Misulia

It has been known for some time that one of the most award-winning directors in American film, Martin Scorsese , will be directing a movie adaption of Silence , a novel by the Catholic Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, slated for 2013. Speaking of the novel, Scorsese says that it had “given me a . . . . Continue Reading »

A happy product of Tim Tebow’s persistent success has been the production of another proof for the existence of God. St. Paul in Romans 1:20, Aquinas’ five ways, Anselm’s ‘that than which,’ and Kant’s moral argument: Tim Tebow’s proof finds itself amidst . . . . Continue Reading »

In a piece that begins, “For God so loved Barack Obama, that he sent his servant, Rick Santorum, to ensure his re-election,” Noah Feldman at Bloomberg speculates about the Catholic nominee’s growing popularity with Evangelicals, claiming that it is perhaps an unexpected fruit of the . . . . Continue Reading »

A Rose and a Prayer , an ecumenical Christian organization aiding and counseling young women with crisis pregnancies in an attempt to curb abortion rates in Wilmington, DE, is now in the midst of a Christmas campaign, encouraging donors to accomplish what is “by far the most cost-effective way . . . . Continue Reading »

While plenty has been said about the effect that instituting civil unions between gay couples has on the country, our communities, our way of thinking, etc., less has been mentioned about the effect that gay civil unions have on heterosexual marriage. This may be because arguments in favor of civil . . . . Continue Reading »

In another attempt to prove that the Catholic hierarchy is primarily made up of the out-of-touch crusty and contrarian, many articles treating Cardinal Francis George’s December 21st comments on the gay liberation movement in Chicago feature titles such as “ Cardinal Francis George: gays . . . . Continue Reading »

In an astoundingly wrong-headed piece written for The Atlantic , Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has taken up the cause for the “98% of sexually active Catholic women.” Appealing to the example of the Virgin Mary’s parents, “Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, a reminder that women are . . . . Continue Reading »

Professor Banzhaf’s charges of sex-discrimination against Catholic University’s re-introducing of single-sex dormitories has been dismissed. The District of Columbia Government Office of Human Rights did away with the charges on the grounds that doing otherwise would lead to “absurd . . . . Continue Reading »

The porn industry is earning higher profits than the NFL, NBA, and MLB combined, and features as one of the most prevalent addictions in America, with 372 million pornographic web pages existent, 72 million visitors each year, and sex being the number one topic sought in search engines.  In a . . . . Continue Reading »

The keynote speaker at  More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church , sponsored by Fordham, Yale, Fairfield, and Union Theological Seminary, broke new ground by arguing that homosexual relations are both moral and natural. Defending the morally good quality of homosexual . . . . Continue Reading »