A reader just pointed out that the article R.R. Reno mentions in his recent post neglects the possibility that many of these new French mothers are (mostly Muslim) North African immigrants. The article does say that Frenchwomen are starting to have children later (at age 30) on average, and that . . . . Continue Reading »
Nazi atrocities against the Jews are most famous in the concentration camps, but the Wall Street Journal reports on a Catholic priest who has devoted his life to investigating them in his native Ukraine: Using forensic evidence, eyewitness accounts and archival research, Father Desbois has taken it . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Washington Times : The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia inched closer to blessing same-sex unions Saturday when delegates approved a resolution affirming “the inherent integrity and blessedness of committed Christian relationships between two adult persons.” The resolution, which . . . . Continue Reading »
The coach of a Christian high school’s basketball team in Dallas was fired recently, after his team racked up a 100-0 victory against another private school devoted students with learning disabilities. The winning school published an apology for the game after an article about the game was . . . . Continue Reading »
Good one, Ryan . Well, if one equates people with costs , then indeed Pelosi’s making a logical argument there. And, hey, if one equates economy with Pelosi’s campaign funding , then it’s also a sound argument that supporting family-planning services is good for the economy. See, . . . . Continue Reading »
Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk, and Metropolitan Filaret from Minsk. One of these three men will soon be elected patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. Whoever is chosen will have no shortage of internal problems to deal with, but we . . . . Continue Reading »
We learned last night that Timothy Geithner was confirmed as the Obama administration’s Secretary of the Treasury. While this outcome was never in real doubt, the revelation that he had failed to report upwards of $26,000 in self-employment taxes when he was an overseas employee of the . . . . Continue Reading »
When I suggested on this blog that “all politics is tribal,” Conor Friedersdorf, Daniel Larison, and Andrew Sullivan all slapped me down like I’d talked about their mothers. Which I suppose, in a way, I had. Their argument was that, by comparing politics to family, I had . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend wrote to chastise me for failing to include fresh statistics that show a marked increase in the French fertility rate. Apparently women who did not have children in the twenties are now having babies, and this is pushing up rates that looked dire a decade ago. Check out this news report . . . . Continue Reading »
Chuck Colson, in last week’s issue of Christianity Today , reflects on the death of his friend Richard John Neuhaus and the origins and future of their joint ecumenical project, Evangelicals and Catholics Together . The two became friends when RJN was a Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor and both . . . . Continue Reading »
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