The New York Times discovers that some parents are looking for child-rearing tips from an unusual source: Cesar Millan, otherwise known as the Dog Whisperer. [S]ome parents — particularly those weary of never-say-no techniques and child-rearing books suggesting that children should call the . . . . Continue Reading »
A few months ago on my own blog I wrote about something I write often about: how the good news is that Christ’s finished work actually means the work of salvation is finished, so that even our feeble participation in sanctification is both covered by Jesus and empowered by him through the . . . . Continue Reading »
It was an amazing NFL game this weekend, Cleveland against Detroit : two of the worst teams in the league playing the most exciting game of the year. In the end, the Lions’ young quarterback Matthew Stafford pulled out the victory with a final touchdown pass, his fifth of the game, with 0:00 . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos of the clash between Rep. Kennedy and his bishop , it’s worth remembering, as a friend emails to note, that sometimes calling politicians on abortion really does work. New Yorkers may remember this sequence from the 1980s: • September 9, 1986: A Parish Bans Assemblyman From . . . . Continue Reading »
An attorney affiliated with the Alliance Defense Fund has used litigation to stop a Tennessee hospital from unilaterally withdrawing life support from an infant. From the story:East Tennessee Children’s Hospital said it would continue caring for 9-month-old Gabriel Palmer from . . . . Continue Reading »
A month ago, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), the latest and possibly the last holder of public office among America’s most famous Catholic family, stated in an interview with Catholic News Service: I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social . . . . Continue Reading »
I joined many others in pounding the apparent abuse of the UK’s Liverpool Care Pathway, both in articles here—and during my recent debate/speech tour of Scotland/London. Readers may recall that the Pathway puts people near death into an artificial coma. I do not object to . . . . Continue Reading »
You gotta love the man. Barry W. Lynn, the indefatigable director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, explains, on abortion provisions in the health-care bill , that there’s “a visceral sense that this [Catholic lobbying] went way over the line—even if as a . . . . Continue Reading »
According to the official Vatican communiqué, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, had a private audience with Pope Benedict last Friday to discuss the following: In the course of the cordial discussions attention turned to the challenges facing all Christian communities at the . . . . Continue Reading »
On Sunday’s editorial page , the New York Times took up the confrontation between the city council of Washington, D.C., and the Catholic archbishop of Washington, Donald Cardinal Wuerl. Meanwhile, in the Washington Post , Wuerl himself addressed the question of whether the archdiocese and its . . . . Continue Reading »
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