Yesterday I posted some thoughts about a recently published history of the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. A friend chided me for ending my analysis with what he took to be a dismissive parting shot that does to progressive Catholic theology what the progressives tend to do to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Why do we even have a legislative branch? It seems a waste of time to go to the trouble of electing representatives when federal judges in California are making our laws : A federal judge in Riverside declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday, . . . . Continue Reading »
This is hilarious-but illustrates how woefully biased the media can be. During the Bush years, hundreds of millions was spent by the NIH on human ESCR. But that was virtually never reported as the media pretended the field was withering financially on the vine—as part of the overarching . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second “On the Square” article, art historian Matthew Milliner reflects on whether art made for use in worship should hang in museums at all, as a Vatican scholar has suggested moving Raphael’s painting of the Transfiguration out of the Vatican’s own museum . . . . Continue Reading »
Adolescence is variously defined as the time between puberty and adulthood. When does adulthood begin? Legally it begins at age 18 in many countries, but some observers hold that adolescence only ends around age 25 and perhaps even beyond. Within this period the young person makes decisions as to . . . . Continue Reading »
As some readers will know, for much of the day yesterday the home page loaded very slowly, if at all (in web terms, which means far more slowly than anyone’s going to wait for). Many readers had heard about but could not access Stephen Barr’s Much Ado About Nothing , a response to . . . . Continue Reading »
Over 10,000 different magazines will be published this year in the U.S. Of those, approximately 8,372 will have Lady Gaga and/or Barack Obama on the cover. Despite having an almost unlimited number of options to choose from, magazine publishers tend to recycle the same visual cliches for their cover . . . . Continue Reading »
Some people, a friend observed, remarking on the way some Christians think Christopher Hitchens’ illness will bring him to Christianity, ”expect severe illness — or any other adversity, for that matter — somehow to work a radical change in . . . . Continue Reading »
As an undergraduate years ago, those of us in the Wheaton College art crowd piled into a fifteen passenger van for an unusual studio visit. We drove into Chicago to the home/studio of artist Tim Lowly whose work—we were told—is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (which in . . . . Continue Reading »
Burning the Koran is stupid, offensive, and generally wicked.It is easy to show that burning the Koran is stupid for a Christian to do. You might think a woman’s beloved husband unworthy, but burning his picture is a bad opening move. You certainly will get her attention, but not her . . . . Continue Reading »
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