We reported in mid-June that an Egyptian court was trying to force the Coptic Church— a minority in the country, reportedly representing 10 percent of the population — to change its marital discipline and let divorced members remarry in church. Egypt’s highest court has . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s New York Times breaks more news about the investigations of the Belgian church. It’s an ugly story, a very ugly story. A bishop, his 10-year-old nephew, sexual molestation—-and the all too familiar story of ecclesiastical retreat from reality as the Belgian hierarchy . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend and frequent contributor Father Edward Oakes (see here , here , and here for recent “On the Square” articles), sends the link to his colleague Father Robert Barron’s Why Christians should pray for Christopher Hitchens . What Hitchens’ suffering means, and what God . . . . Continue Reading »
Am I the only one who finds this youtube video kinda creepy? Yes, Charlie Chaplin lampooned Hitler decades ago in The Great Dictator (1940). But the critical edge was plain to see. This video, which has Der Fuehrer singing the theme song to The Jeffersons , is more in the spirit of Mel Brooks, who . . . . Continue Reading »
Western intelligence agencies have known for years, and the press has reported, that al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organizations such as Somalia’s Al-Shabab have trained and armed Somali pirates in return for a share of the proceeds of piracy. Canada’s National Post reported last Dec. 2: . . . . Continue Reading »
Kevin has commented on the Presbyterians’ recent decision to approve of practicing homosexual clergy, a move that will only divide an already divided body — still divided even though many of the conservative members hived off decades ago into bodies like the Presbyterian Church in . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Dr. Pat Deneen regards David Brooks’ repudiation of the suburbs as a Porcher victory, as Mr. Pomocon reports below. 2. But every pomocon must know that I repudiated David’s (my sort-of friend’s) account of the suburbs in his fairly bizarre flop PARADISE DRIVE. He tried to give . . . . Continue Reading »
Fired for Being Catholic? reported on the troubles of Dr. Kenneth Howell, who lost his adjunct job at the University of Illinois for admitting in a class on Catholic teaching that he, as a Catholic, agreed with it. A friend who teaches in a state university wrote: Having read his e-mail, the . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Gospel Of Scientific Materialism , today’s “On the Square” article, R. R. Reno explains why those he calls “our Happy Warriors of Science” — the Dawkins/Dennett crowd — are so enthusiastic, nay Evangelical, about “the most reductive sort of . . . . Continue Reading »
I am very pleased that my speaking tour of Australia seems to be going quite well. Australia is a terrific country. The wonderful impression Debra and I carried away from our 2001 trip have been fully validated in 2010. I have been very pleased that SHSers have come . . . . Continue Reading »
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