Here’s an awful story about a Colorado newspaper that, in the race to be the first on a story, stationed a reporter at the funeral of a three-year-old girl and had him post details of the event live on the Internet: In what some are saying is the result of the newspaper’s undying desire . . . . Continue Reading »
Terry Mattingly at GetReligion.org calls our attention to this report from a Christian news source, of Christian martyrdom in Saudi Arabia : Reports are coming in of increasing persecution of Christian believers in the Saudi Arabia. A Saudi man recently cut the tongue of his daughter and burned her . . . . Continue Reading »
If children are encouraged to act and dress like adults, then why can’t adults act like children ? . . . . Continue Reading »
In my experience, the modern elite university is an intellectual wasteland. Most students are just trying to get job security, and insofar as they can be said to have ethical or philosophical views, they are uncritical “preference” utilitarians of a decidedly scientistic cast of mind. . . . . Continue Reading »
I know it’s the middle of Pentecost/Ordinary Time, but I’ve been itching for some spice to the liturgical season. Yesterday I noticed that I was humming “Sing ye to the Lord,” a marvelous piece of English choral music by Sir Edward Bairstow. Here’s a recording from . . . . Continue Reading »
Rita Marker is primarily responsible for dragging me kicking and screaming from pursuing Naderite endeavors to fighting against euthanasia and assisted suicide. I have worked with her closely for 15 years and have seen her dedication and intelligence first hand. If any single person can be credited, . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan’s post on the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School reminded me of another flourishing initiative in Catholic education: Notre Dame’s A.C.E. program. Now fifteen years old, the Alliance for Catholic Education teaches the teachers—training more than 1,000 college graduates, since 1993, . . . . Continue Reading »
Slate’s Will Saletan is an interesting (and sometimes maddening) writer who writes about the raging bioethics/biotech debates from a uniquely oblique angle that often exposes the surrealism of modern times. Case in point, an op/ed piece in yesterday’s Washington Post. He . . . . Continue Reading »
It looks like politicians are the same in Australia too. . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the disengenous argument of David Gibson . For a wonderful point by point response, see this post by Ed Whelan . Ramesh Ponnuru adds some further thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »
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