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Jurists, Journalists, & Judicial Activism

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 reads—and misreads—too much politically into the . . . . Continue Reading »

Meat-and-Potato Catholics

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 »

Re: Notre Dame 103, Providence 84

. . . 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 »

Dolan New Archbishop of NY

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 »

Coming to Massachusetts on March 14

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 Poets—Rhina Espaillat, A.M. Juster, Michael Cantor, Len Krisak, and . . . . Continue Reading »

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