My wife’s mother died this week. Catherine Wilson Payne, born in Fleetwood, England, in March 1929, had lived a rich life and raised four children to healthy, productive adulthood—one of them my wife, Colette. Mamma Payne proudly doted on her eight grandchildren from her home in . . . . Continue Reading »
I didn’t get into it here, but the collapse of the Senate Omnibus Spending Bill was very good news for Obamacare opponents. The bill sought to thwart the coming plans to undermine Obamacare via defunding by providing at least a billion in appropriations to pay for the beast to get out of . . . . Continue Reading »
My headline is too provocative, but it is the best I can do considering the different nuances of this case. So please be patient.The political Left is making great hay out of a tragic story of the pending death in Florida of a young woman named Betsy Gallardo. Betsy is dying of cancer in . . . . Continue Reading »
This country needs more doctors. But now, NY medical schools are striving to ensure that fewer medical students transition into practicing physicians.Here’s the story: For many years medical students who couldn’t make—or afford—US medical schools have received their . . . . Continue Reading »
John Haldane, the author of Philosophy Lives in the January issue, offers his description of the Catholic vision of Mary on BBC Radio, in a very personal (but philosophically sound) reflection. You need to wait a couple of minutes for his segment to come on. It will up for four more days. . . . . Continue Reading »
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my nephews:Why some things were better before social . . . . Continue Reading »
Biblical Archaeology Review has a scholarly examination of why Christmas is celebrated on December 25—and it’s likely not, as commonly believed, timed to coincide with a pagan holiday: The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square”, R. R. Reno reflects on The Incarnation and William Doino offers the words of Father Alfred Delp as Meditations for the End of Advent . Fr. Delp, executed by the Nazis in 1945, wrote, for example: History now becomes the Son’s mode of existence; historical . . . . Continue Reading »
Why are prolific neologists like Milton, Chaucer, and Shakespeare praised for coining new words while Sarah Palin is mocked for inventing a term like “refudiate”? Gene Veith, the Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College, explains how words are (legitimately) invented . . . . Continue Reading »
At Christianity Today , Sarah Pulliam Bailey has an interview with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice about race, foreign policy, and her faith : One of your friends read an article about you and said, “You’re not an evangelical Christian,” and you said “Yeah, but I . . . . Continue Reading »
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