Mary Rose Somarriba

For those of you who missed last week’s opportunity , now’s your last chance! We need a one-liner to go under the FT logo on a t-shirt, and we’d love to hear your ideas. Winner of the best caption gets a free t-shirt! Send us your suggestions, along with your name and address, to . . . . Continue Reading »

Several contributors have shared their answers to this question in what’s been an interesting exchange at Patheos this week. Kudos to Patheos for their great work on this worthy project. . . . . Continue Reading »

If First Things had a t-shirt, what would the caption read? Take part in the First Things T-Shirt Caption Contest! We are accepting readers’ ideas of a one-liner to go under the First Things logo on a t-shirt. Please submit your name, mailing address, and suggested caption to . . . . Continue Reading »

If you liked Robert P. George’s piece in the current issue of FT , check out the recent bloggingheads video where he discusses moral reasoning and natural law with Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God . . . . . Continue Reading »

If you haven’t already, take a stroll to your neighborhood bookstore and pick up the latest gem from Alan Jacobs: Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant . . . . . Continue Reading »

Congratulations to Ashley Samelson, whose On the Square piece “ Why ‘Freedom of Worship’ Is Not Enough ,” reporting on the Obama administration’s change of rhetoric from “freedom of religion,” got the attention of Catholic Online and then the Drudge . . . . Continue Reading »

Being in New York in the run up to the 2008 presidential election was an interesting experience. All in a day’s walk, I’d pass vendors and happy consumers of Obama paintings, Obama rhinestone T-shirts, even Obama condoms. Sometime in October that year, a friend asked me if I could feel . . . . Continue Reading »

You may have seen the news report : This weekend the Vatican was targeted in a cyber attack by an unknown person who used the Google Internet search engine to misdirect Web browsers searching for information. On Saturday, any user who typed the word “Vatican” into the search field on . . . . Continue Reading »

Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features an optimistic cover story: “The New Abortion Providers” by Emily Bazelon. It recounts the decades-long struggle of abortion advocates to become more accepted by the medical profession, because at the moment, the vast majority of abortions are done in isolated, high-volume, abortion-specialized clinics. The new goal for abortion supporters is “to recast doctors, changing them from a weak link to abortion to a strong one … with the hope that, eventually, more and more doctors will use their training to bring abortion into their practices … to integrate abortion so that it’s a seamless part of health care for women”embraced rather than shunned.” … Continue Reading »

The professed-Catholic Nancy Pelosi received the Champion for Women’s Health Award from Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider, today in the Rayburn House Office Building. Which made me look up that old transcript from Meet the Press from a while back—remember when . . . . Continue Reading »