Recently Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton and a frequent contributor to First Things , was on CNN’s Glenn Beck Show with some of his students to discuss life on college campuses, specifically the acceptability of conservatism and the hook-up culture. One of the . . . . Continue Reading »
From ZENIT this week, an interview with Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver on his new book, Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life . “Nobody wants a theocracy,” says the archbishop, but if we do want democracy, we need a culture of . . . . Continue Reading »
Dennis Byrne, a columnist in the Chicago Tribune , reminds us yet again that the question about abortion has changed for this election. It’s not just a question of whether abortion is permitted in the womb, but whether infanticide is legal when the mother doesn’t want to keep a newborn . . . . Continue Reading »
This isn’t presented as a political statement, but I love good political cartoons. This one from The Times of London is tops. . . . . Continue Reading »
So much good is happening in science that has nothing to do with controversial areas such as human cloning—that lest we forget that most scientific research is not controversial—I feel duty-bound to bring it to the attention of SHSers. Case in wonderful point: An engineer, who is himself . . . . Continue Reading »
The most lasting impact of the recent nationally televised interview Rick Warren did with Senators Barack Obama and John McCain may not have to do with the two presidential candidates. It may be its effect on, and the impression people have of, evangelical Christianity. Rick Warren, already in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I wrote on the excommunication scene in the movie Beckett . Last night while looking up the exact definition of anathema , I found the actual text of the old rite of anathematization, the gravest form of excommunication: “Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, . . . . Continue Reading »
The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at his moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation, . . . . Continue Reading »
It looks as though amateurs such as myself will soon have an easier time accessing one of the most interesting collections of documents from the Second Temple period: The Dead Sea Scrolls. As the New York Times reports : JERUSALEM — In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a . . . . Continue Reading »
An aside on religion in contemporary society from David Lebedoff’s The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War : “The mainstream churches are losing members and often seem devoted to causes more worthy than holy.” That sums it up well. . . . . Continue Reading »
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