First tale: A tenured sociologist at a prominent research university, with a couple of books under his belt on related subjects, publishes the first-ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young-adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same-sex romantic . . . . Continue Reading »
Shining Glimpses of Mercy
Julia Mooney, Fare Forward
I Believe in Messy Vans
Leah Trouwborst, Art House America
Why Men Are Retweeted More Than Women
Jessica Bennett, The Atlantic
Carl's Rock Songbooks, No. 106, John Lennon, “Imagine No Religion”
Carl Eric Scott, National Review
Hundred of US Priests ask Synod to Stand Firm on Church Teaching
Mary Rezac, CNA
Baltimorean Justice
Br. Edmund McCullough,O.P., Dominicana
Bernini: He Had the Touch
Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books
On Fraternities & Manliness
Emily Esfanahi Smith, The New Criterion
Evangelical Protestants are the Biggest Winners When People Change Faiths
Leah Libreso, FiveThirtyEight
Locating Heaven
Br. Thomas Davenport, Dominicana
Reading Poetry
Jack Hanson, Open Letters Monthly
Do Persons Matter?
Scott Walter, Philanthropy Daily
On September 23, at a mass in Washington, DC, Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize Blessed Junípero Serra (1713-84), the Franciscan founder of the Spanish missions in California.Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988. Vatican representatives have pointed out that his sainthood will emphasize the diverse contributions to American identity of Hispanics and will recognize our Pacific as well as our Atlantic heritage. This point would seem to be politically significant at a moment when Republican Party leaders of Hispanic origin, like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and with Hispanic family relations—e.g. Jeb Bush—are vying for their party’s presidential nomination. Continue Reading »
Last Word In Deed: Baltimore Catholics Get to Work
Amanda Erickson, Commonweal
Reviving the Female Canon
Susan Price, The Atlantic
Prophesying to the Breath
Maryann Corbett, Verse Daily
Irish PM Says Country Must Seize Opportunity to Approve Gay Marriage
Padraic Halpin, Religion News Service
It is sad to learn that universities are not places which model civil engagement between those who hold differing opinions. Continue Reading »
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Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park
John Herrman, The Awl
You Get What You Pay For
Aaron MacLean, Washington Free Beacon
The Real But Overstated Decline of American Christianity
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
Pope Francis Canonizes Two 19th-Century Palestinian Nuns
Francis X. Rocca and Joshua Mitnick, The Wall Street Journal
We Remember the Genocide—And We Must Avert Another
Mark L. Movsesian, Library of Law and Liberty
Against Kant and Consumerism
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative
Art Has Ceased to Be Beautiful or Interesting
Stephen Bayley, The Spectator
Facebook Begins Testing Instant Articles from News Publishers
Vindu Goel & Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times
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