A respondent on the English Catholic writer Damian Thompson’s Holy Smoke weblog quotes a useful passage from a recent book that defended Pope Benedict XVI from his detractors: Others have noted that we live in a time of hysteria about paedophilia, a mob psychology that calls to mind the Salem . . . . Continue Reading »
About a month ago, I traveled to Seattle to give a speech at the Discovery Institute about my new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. The event was covered by C-Span and is now available for viewing by hitting this link.This is the third time one of . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, Ryan , Micah , and I discussed the legal and moral implications of targeting Anwar Al-Awlaki, a terrorist who happens to be a U.S. born citizen. Since then Adam Serwer has pointed out a speech that may shed some light on the issue. In a recent lecture to the American Society of . . . . Continue Reading »
The revisionist project to create a fictional Jack Kevorkian as merely a lovable, if sometimes tactless, man of compassion—rather the misanthropic and ghoulish nut that he really is—continues. (See Kevorkian paintings I uploaded to accompany this post. He sometimes used human . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t believe for a minute that horror over the abuse of children by Catholic clergy is what’s animating Richard Dawkins’ on Pope Benedict XVI. Come on—is Dawkins on record as being similarly outraged over the abuse of children by teachers or Scout troop leaders? No—this . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Rose asks , “Should Catholics thank the Boston Globe and the New York Times ” a question prompted by my homily for Divine Mercy Sunday, published today by her kind hospitality. Although I mentioned the press generically in my homily, now that the question has become specific, I would . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare passed. Large companies were forced to take hundreds of millions of charges on their profit/loss statements. The intimidator, Representative Henry Waxman, was outraged and called a committee hearing to flay the offending companies’ CEOs. Except—taking . . . . Continue Reading »
World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder blasts American policy towards Israel in a letter published today in major American newspapers. He writes:Mr. President, we are concerned about the dramatic deterioration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel.The Israeli housing . . . . Continue Reading »
Here in California, our collapsing economy is being pushed even further into the abyss by Gov. Schwartzenegger’s misguided “green” laws. (When Arnold found the going tough in staunching our arterial budget bleed out, he shrugged his shoulders and worked with the Left . . . . Continue Reading »
Be sure to check out Fr. Edward T. Oakes’ unique take on the sex-abuse scandal news coverage in today’s On the Square piece . A snippet: I have long felt that we Catholics will know that this crisis has finally been put behind us, at least in the United States, when the bishops, in one . . . . Continue Reading »
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