Mark Misulia

Religious liberty has very quickly become of intense concern for religious groups across the country, especially for those that will be directly affected by the HHS mandate. But more generally, a broader trend of restrictions on religious freedom seems, if not imminent, at least soon-to-be fiercely . . . . Continue Reading »

Bishop Lori of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has written the Parable of the Kosher Deli, “for those with ears to hear.” In this lesson, the government has applied a nation-wide mandate that requires kosher delicatessen’s to serve ham sandwiches. Naturally, the owners were incensed and . . . . Continue Reading »

Every defense of the HHS mandate, including the administration’s, inevitably has recourse to the statistic apparently proving that ninety-eight percent of Catholic women use contraceptive birth control anyway. As is true with most statistical analysis, a little digging into the study’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Jeremy Lin, the undrafted Harvard graduate who wants to become a pastor, emerged almost overnight when his off-the-bench performance on Feb. 4th led the New York Knicks to beat the New Jersey Nets. Because of this, some have hinted that America has not lost Tim Tebow: He has only acquired a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Catholic Information Center in DC hosted a panel discussion of the HHS mandate, the First Amendment, and subsidiarity. The panel included James Capretta of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Richard Doerflinger from the USCCB, Kyle Duncan from the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, moderated . . . . Continue Reading »

Business Insider , a site concerned with financial, media, and tech verticals, has published a piece entitled “ Time to Admit It: The Church has Always Been Right on Birth Control ,” which the authors acknowledge was inspired by the heated discourse surrounding the HHS mandate, and by . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Schiltz at Mirror of Justice has linked to an interview at The Chronicle of a married couple, both medeivalists at Notre Dame, speaking about the effect that Vatican II has had on liturgical music. While not always true, there does seem to be general consensus that, at the very least, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writing for Newsweek, thinks that the intolerance exhibited in the Western world toward Muslims and their communities pales in comparison to the brutally violent abuse that Christians are often faced with in Muslim-majority countries, and requires a recasting of priorities: . . . . Continue Reading »

Rod Dreher alerts us to a fresh try by some campus’s around the country to increase awareness of the debilitating effect of prejudice: The Tunnel of Oppression. From UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2011 Tunnel of Oppression page : The Tunnel of Oppression is a tour that will engage students in an . . . . Continue Reading »

The Catholic Phoenix has posted a shorter version of James Wilson’s wonderful piece, “Saint Augustine and the Meaning of Art.” Exploring the “scandal” of Deconstruction in art history and its more far-reaching effect on one’s religious vision of the world, Wilson . . . . Continue Reading »