Matthew Cantirino

Amish Already Exempt from Healthcare Law Sr. Mary Ann Walsh,  USCCBlog British Conservatives Press Ahead with Gay Marriage Michael Holden,  Reuters Why Finish Books? Tim Parks,  NY Review of Books Bill Maher’s Fatwa William McGurn,  Wall Street Journal When Should . . . . Continue Reading »

Are justice and love contradictory concepts, or is the divide between them something of a false construct? Certainly both secular and Christian thinkers can be found who seek to emphasize one at the expense of the other, either demanding “justice” regardless of the means or the cost, or . . . . Continue Reading »

Compassion, Victorian England, and Us Pete Wehner,  Commentary American Civil Religion, Liberty, and Mormonism Lee Trepanier & Lynita K. Newswander,  Anamnesis Women’s Support for President Drops 12 Points Michelle Bauman , Catholic News Agency Progressive Inhumanity: The State . . . . Continue Reading »

Recent debates involving the Catholic Church have led to an eruption of the kind of legal and cultural vitriol against the faith not seen in this country for some time. So toxic has the climate become that one almost expects to see The Confessions of Maria Monk receive a glowing review in a trendy . . . . Continue Reading »

Setting the Record Straight on CIANA Michael J. New,  The Corner An Evangelical Renaissance in Academia? Thomas Albert Howard & Karl W. Giberson,  Inside Higher Ed The Fertility Implosion David Brooks,  New York Times When General Grant Expelled the Jews Jonathan D. Sarna , . . . . Continue Reading »

Allysia Finley writes in the Wall Street Journal with some modest proposals for further healthcare mandates to supplement the concern for the nation’s well-being already on display in the contraception rule. Since the criteria for whether an employer or insurer should be required to provide a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Dark Gulf Before Us Fr. George W. Rutler,  Crisis The Pill vs. An Apple a Day Phil Lawler,  Catholic Culture Billboards & Atheist Overkill Liel Liebowitz,  The Daily Mind the Gap Yuval Levin,  The Weekly Standard The Revolutionary Anti-Modernism of Prince Charles Rod . . . . Continue Reading »

Ameritopia, a work of pop-political theory by talk radio host Mark Levin, has been riding high atop the New York Times bestseller list for the past several weeks. The book, as Andrew McCarthy recounts in an extended essay/review appearing in this month’s New Criterion, centers around the thesis that all societies (and so, by extension, America today) face a basic choice between “utopianism” and “realism.” McCarthy praises Levin’s thesis, but his enthusiasm is a bit surprising given how inchoate Levin’s argument sounds… . Continue Reading »

The Diocese of Fargo, ND has obtained permission from the Vatican to continue inverting the order of the sacraments of initiation from currently-accepted norms. According to the National Catholic Register : Over the past seven years, the Diocese of Fargo has changed the typical order of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Fr. Robert Araujo, SJ writes on the use and misuse  of John Courtney Murray in today’s religious discourse, especially in the battle over the HHS mandate: In regard to the controversy of the present moment about religious freedom, the distinction between public and private moralities is . . . . Continue Reading »