This doesn’t come as any particular surprise, I suppose. Doug Kmiec writes in Time magazine about the pope’s recent meeting with Nancy Pelosi, and he clearly prefers the politics of the latter. Perhaps the problem is that he readsand misreadstoo much politically into the . . . . Continue Reading »
From the October 2002 edition of The Public Square: (The following report is submitted by our ubiquitous correspondent George Weigel.) Outraged commentary quickly followed Bishop Timothy M. Dolan’s June 25 remark that his first priority as the tenth Archbishop of Milwaukee would be to talk . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2004, Archbishop Timothy Dolan gave our annual Erasmus Lecture entitled “The Bishops in Council” on the history of the American Catholic episcopate, the topic of his doctoral research. Click here to read the article. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . and now, after rubbing in the losses of their alma maters to both FT’s editor and managing editor, Ryan T. Anderson wonders why his login information mysteriously stopped working for the FT blog . . . Just kidding. If Providence played football, Ryan, it might be a different story. As . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Archdiocesan Press Office : His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed His Excellency, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee, to the Archdiocese of New York. Archbishop Dolan has served as the Archbishop of Milwaukee since 2002. He will be the 13th Bishop and 10th . . . . Continue Reading »
It has been a very dispiriting experience to see how things are in the UK. The country’s leadership seems lost in a fog of relativism and intent to destroy many of the cultural attributes of society that made the country great.There is the Brave New Britain, oft written of here, of course. But . . . . Continue Reading »
For our friends north of Boston, I’ll be giving a poetry reading on Saturday, March 14, at 3:00 p.m. at: Jabberwocky Bookshop 50 Water Street Newburyport, Massachusetts Put together by our friends among the Powow River PoetsRhina Espaillat, A.M. Juster, Michael Cantor, Len Krisak, and . . . . Continue Reading »
After three rousing speeches and media appearances with David Prentice in Ireland on cloning and ESCR, I am off today over the Irish Sea to London, where I will speak Monday night in the Parliament Building about assisted suicide. Ahead of the event, I was asked by my sponsors to write a piece for . . . . Continue Reading »