Jimmy Akin, my favorite Catholic apologist, has a detailed post examining whether Fatima al-Mutayri should be considered in full communion with the Catholic Church and whether she could be a candidate for canonization: Vatican II’s statement regarding Islam could definitely have been better . . . . Continue Reading »
“She silenced even a Jesuit who joked that she seemed to be getting smaller,” Fr. George Rutler recalls. “Yes,” she said, “and I must get smaller until I am small enough to fit into the heart of Jesus.” They say you can always tell a Jesuit but can’t tell him . . . . Continue Reading »
How much are we entitled to use each other? Jennifer Roback Morse takes up the question in a thoughtful review of My Sister’s Keeper , the screen version of Jodi Picoult’s novel. . . . . Continue Reading »
So you know how when you’re coming out of the grocery store and someone says “Want to sign our petition” and you say “What’s it about?” and they say “It’s about getting to the truth about 9/11.” and you think “Well, I like truth but my my ice cream . . . . Continue Reading »
View the “50 Most Extraordinary Churches of the World” here. And don’t tell me you don’t have at least one semi-extraordinary church near you. . . . . Continue Reading »
The President of the American Humanist Association has a blog out loving Marx for his naturalism, but decrying the wicked old Utopian’s acceptance of human exceptionalism. From the blog of David Niose: One such shortcoming is Marx’s tendency toward what might be called “human . . . . Continue Reading »
Newser , an online news aggregator started by Michael Wolff ( Vanity Fair , New York magazine), claims to “choose the most important stories from hundreds of US and international sources and reduce them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs.” That reducing to a picture can be a bit . . . . Continue Reading »
Along with several others, we received yesterday a statement from a reader who practices the dangerous profession of being a Christian missionary to Muslims in the Middle East. Along the way, the missionary notes: In August of 2008 a young lady named Fatima al-Mutayri, age 26, was martyred in Saudi . . . . Continue Reading »
For the last several days I’ve been writing about religious beliefs and how they are tied to theory-making (see here , here , and here ). In essence, my argument has been that (a) everyone has religious beliefs, (b) these beliefs form the basic presuppositions that shape our theory-making, . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioethicist Jacob Appel can be relied on to promote the most radical bioethics agendas, assisted suicide for the mentally ill, fetal farming, you name it. And now he has argued that if Montana affirms a constitutional right to assisted suicide in Montana, the state has a duty to make sure that . . . . Continue Reading »
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