There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Human trafficking is occurring in every nation on earth— including the U.S. : The 373-page “Trafficking in Persons Report 2010” says some 12.3 million adults and children . . . . Continue Reading »
As if their motives needed further corroboration, some of the media’s most influential reporters continue to prove that their pouty jockeying with the Church is little more than a game. After demanding a personal apology from Pope Benedict, the press seemed to be holding its collective breath, . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an instructive passage from one of my favorite contemporary Christian writers.From Lauren F. Winner, Real Sex: The Naked Truth About ChastityChristian tradition has historically articulated a threefold purpose for sex: sex is meant to be unitive, procreative, and sacramental. That . . . . Continue Reading »
I just came across a blog called Civil Religion in the St. Louis Post Dispatch that eloquently applied the “duties” side of human exceptionalism with regard to the BP catastrophe. From “BP Oil Disaster & Human Responsibility: We Did This,” by Sharon Autenrieth:I . . . . Continue Reading »
Coming tomorrow in “On the Square”: our web editor Joe Carter examines the early and late (“mature” is probably not quite the right word) work of Thomas Kinkade. . . . . Continue Reading »
Good for Secretary State Hillary Clinton for focusing on the problems in the USA with sex trafficking. From the story:There are thousands of modern-day “slaves” in America - girls and boys forced into the sex trade, and men and women held in debt bondage, Secretary of State Clinton . . . . Continue Reading »
Since when is it U.S. policy to stop people trying to find Osama bin Laden ? . . . . Continue Reading »
“For many of us who love the act of writing—even when we are writing against a deadline with an editor waiting for the copy—there is something monastic about the process, a confrontation with one’s thoughts that has a value apart from the proximity or even perhaps the . . . . Continue Reading »
“Touchdown Jesus” statue destroyed by lightning : Touchdown Jesus, more properly known as King of Kings, was one of southwest Ohio’s best known — and biggest — landmarks: A fixture at the Solid Rock Church by Monroe, Ohio since it was completed in 2004, it had a 42-foot . . . . Continue Reading »
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