I think the answer is very, very, likely yes and before the Iowa Caucuses (not that he’ll drop out, just that he will have substantially lower support than now.) There was this time during the Cain boom when he had just spent the section of a debate dealing with criticism of 9-9-9 by . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you interested in the changes in the new Mass, beyond those explained by Anthony Esolen in Restoring the Words (November), my friend Mike Aquilina has written a popular article on “And with your spirit” , just published by The Priest . The experts have picked out the . . . . Continue Reading »
The 20th-century German theologian Erik Peterson, whose conversion from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism was the occasion for a great deal of ecclesiological soul-searching after the second World War, has had a substantive influence on theology both in Europe and in the English-speaking world. . . . . Continue Reading »
Wading through the press coverage surrounding the introduction of the third edition of the Roman Missal, as this post at GetReligion points out , can get repetitive quickly, particularly because of reporters insistence on covering the liturgical changes from the angle of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is the latest evidence he’s opened up a big lead in Iowa, and without even devoting any effort to campaigning or organizing in the state. And as Cain continues to fade, we can expect his margin to grow even wider. It appears that Romney can’t do anything there or most places to get . . . . Continue Reading »
Amanda Marcotte thinks that the “Christian Right” have correctly identified their adversaries, and that the religious reactionincreasingly, she thinks, played out in the public square—amounts to the death throes of an old order. Some of her arguments are historically . . . . Continue Reading »
At least he read the piece, but John Farrell wrote right past the point in attempting to rebut my recent Weekly Standard column about the media’s biased coverage of Geron’s abandonment of embryonic stem cell research. From “A Conservative Protest About . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Robert Schwarzwalder and Julia Kiewit call on evangelicals to stand up for religious liberty : Every Christian school in the nation that offers insurance to its employees or students will be affected by the 2010 health care lawas schools like the . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest edition of USA Today , Richard Garnett, a professor of law and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame, explains why the contraception mandate should be scrapped : James Madison, the “Father of our Constitution,” believed that America’s distinctive commitment . . . . Continue Reading »