Over at the Times of London, Philip Delves Broughton lets out a long rant about his fellow Harvard MBA’s: If Robespierre were to ascend from hell and seek out today’s guillotine fodder, he might start with a list of those with three incriminating initials beside their names: MBA. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. John Jay Hughes’ very fine piece at today’s First Things web site, “Proclaiming The Good News,” has many good things to say to preachers. Being one myself, I found much to appreciate in his remarks. What especially struck me though was what I take to be a yet distinctive . . . . Continue Reading »
Trouble is brewing in New York: Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children. A perennial . . . . Continue Reading »
Those are not the words of the usual religious conservative suspects. They belong to William Saletan , writing in Slate on Obama’s federal funding of embryo-destructive stem cell research. Saletan stands in the middle on embryos, seeing them as early-stage human beings who are not owed the . . . . Continue Reading »
Following up on Sr. Sandra Schneiders’ open hostility toward the upcoming Apostolic Visitation , Lifesite News gets a reaction from Sr. Eva Marie Ackerman, FSMG , U.S. spokesman, for the visit: Sr. Eva Maria Ackerman, told LifeSiteNews.com that the Visitation is intended only as a means of . . . . Continue Reading »
Our former assistant editor Ryan T. Anderson writes in National Review Online that the solution to the marriage debate is not to privatize marriage because marriage is not just a religious issue. Instead, supporters of measures like Proposition 8 are looking to maintain marriage as the best, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Tell me we aren’t on the path to using human beings as mere produce: A UK bioethicist has called for using fetal organs from abortions in transplantation. From the story:Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be given to the desperately ill and ease the organ donor shortage, a leading . . . . Continue Reading »
The sense of entitlement is so thick, so embedded within the genome of the biotech research community, that apparently no matter the extent to which they are catered, it is never, ever enough. Only days after they got virtually all they claimed they wanted from President Obama, some scientists are . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve had a real growth spurt here at SHS. In the last month. We have gone from about 30,000 visits and 25,000 discreet visitors every thirty days to nearly 40,000 visits from about 31,000 visitors. And the last few days have had about 2000 visitors a day. We’re not the Daily Kos or . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike Stephen Webb I quite like soccer (granted, I am a girly crypto-collectivist), but I think we can agree that rugby is a great, manly sport. Why else would The Art of Manliness offer a primer on it?: Rugby as it exists today is one of the most exciting contact sports in existence, a perfect . . . . Continue Reading »
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