Wow. The New York Times can’t stop itself. In an editorial on Saturday , the Grey Lady deemed last weeks changes to the motu proprio concerning crimes against the holy sacraments worse than inadequate. “Among all the defensive posturing and inept statements,” write the editors, there . . . . Continue Reading »
This September, when strollers along New York’s Fifth Avenue reach the southeast corner of Central Park, at 60th Street, they will come across a ruined monument. The glass-reinforced concrete sculpture, brand-new and all of a piece despite its jumbled and scattered appearance, is called The . . . . Continue Reading »
My wife and I went to see Inception Saturday afternoon. I don’t have much ‘good’ to say about the film other than I liked it. It was way to long, and the film itself seemed intent on providing images of some college sophomore’s perspective of T.S Eliot’s ” . . . . 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 »
The 500,000 temporary Census jobs that temporarily swelled the employment numbers are a minor distortion compared to a stealth government make-work program at least twice the size of the Census, uncovered by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Priest and Arkin write in this . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the Twilight series a faith-based paean to chastity? That is what author Stephanie Meyers claims . As Kathleen Gilbert notes, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer is widely known to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), and openly acknowledges that her faith has had an . . . . Continue Reading »
Although “One of the shibboleths of the Church of the Holy Screen is that iPhones, Twitter, and Kindle make our age unique, uncharted territory,” observes Daniel J. Flynn in Unplugged , summarizing William Powers’ thesis in Hamlet’s Blackberry , “Man has been there, . . . . Continue Reading »
Col. Ralph Peters, the New York Post columnist and terrorism expert, warns of a new Muslim crusade against African Christians in an op-ed today . He writes, “The bombings that recently butchered World Cup fans in Uganda were just the latest in a long line of crazed attacks on African . . . . Continue Reading »
Abortion foes win a round in health overhaul , AP Abortion foes have scored a victory and traditional allies of the Obama administration are grumbling about a decision to ban most abortion coverage in insurance pools for those unable to purchase health care on their own. The Catholic bishops . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been reading through Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer . It is truly excellent. At points it almost has a dreamlike quality. I highly recommend it. What motivates this post is the point in the narrative where the German state church is confronted by the Aryan Paragraph . . . . Continue Reading »
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