What could be the setup for a lame joke turns out to be the setup for a lame reality show in Turkey . Penitents Compete , scheduled to launch in September, includes select religious leaders seeking to convert a group of ten atheists to their respective faiths. The winning religious leaders get to . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s see, let’s see . . . Nothing says Lift Tie the Cross quite like this, which actually lifts it twice, just to be sure. In these troubled economic times, more and more institutions of higher learning are forced to cut costs any way they can: salary reductions, heavier teaching loads, . . . . Continue Reading »
Some men face their aging with equanimity, fortitude, and grace. The rest of us whimper, rail, and whine. A friend recently brought over his new Brazilian rosewood guitar—his fourteenth guitar, so many that he has begun hiding them from his wife. But I have chosen the road more traveled by, . . . . Continue Reading »
In an amusing post that pokes fun at both Twitter and applied moral philosophy, James Anderson offers eighteen arguments ” Against All Tweets .” As an Aristotelian-Augustianian-Plantingan advocate of natural law, I was persuaded by a number of his conditional proofs. But being . . . . Continue Reading »
Fresh from the pages of Sports Illustrated , here’s a list of the top ten high-school athletic programs in the nation: 1. Non-denominational Christian (of Congregationalist origin): Punahou School in Hawaii 2. Catholic (Jesuit): Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon 3. Catholic (diocesan): . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an excerpt from an article on the Sixties of mine in THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW . It supports the Tocquevillian thought that things are mainly getting better and worse, as well as the thought that the aggressive nationalizing of the civil rights movement was in response to a state and . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a good and important development in the assisted suicide debate in the UK. A bill was proposed to stop suicide predators on the Internet. Predictably, assisted suicide advocates have attempted to amend the bill to legalize suicide tourism, that is, relatives taking suicidal loved . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London oversteps a little with its headline: “Cardinal John Henry Newman, Catholic convert, is beatified by the Pope.” The AP story carries a more accurate if less exciting title: “Pope OKs miracle to beatify UK Cardinal Newman.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Swift proposed a profitable trade in the corpses of Irish children. That’s the rudimentary markets of the 18th century for you. Today we can do much, much better.Reuters ran the following item July 3:RIGA (Reuters) – Ready to give your soul for a loan in these difficulteconomic . . . . Continue Reading »
Which, I don’t mind sharing, is a constant theme in my confessions. I hope it’s a sign of progress that I actually bother to go to Confession . . . But I digress. Check this totally out. Here I am congratulating myself for getting up out of the chair and going bodily to Confession, when . . . . Continue Reading »
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