Troubling news today from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education about the rising the cost of college tuition and the increasing percentage of Americans who are unable to afford it: Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to . . . . Continue Reading »
Moral Issues and Political Choices: That is the title of a lecture Fr. Richard John Neuhaus gave at Roanoke College, shortly before the recent elections. Watch it online here . It takes a while to download, but, as you might imagine from your monthly doses of the Public Square, it is well worth . . . . Continue Reading »
In this week’s edition of my podcast, What It Means to be Human, I discuss the media’s fascination with, and often fawning reportage about suicide outlaws. Here is the . . . . Continue Reading »
According to MSNBC , a group of conservatives, having broken away from the Episcopal church, has formed a rival denomination. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an interesting interview with Buzz McLaughlin, a Christian filmmaker trying to make movies that avoid the extremes of total secularity and didactic piety. I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping that this project becomes wildly successful. . . . . Continue Reading »
Seeing as Advent is a penitential season, and seeing as I’ve been talking about Advent music, here’s a penitential song. Well, sort of. It’s not exactly sacred, at least in traditional terms, but it is callled “Sinner’s Prayer.” And it’s covered by B.B. . . . . Continue Reading »
What drove the men who attacked Mumbai? Guy Sorman writes that the massacre “wasn’t some desperate move to make a statement. It was a carefully planned operation, under the command of sophisticated leadership . . . in order to achieve a strategic, indeed worldwide, goal.” This . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London carries today the remarkable story of a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières who saved the life of a young boy in war-torn Congo by performing a complicated operation he had to learn on the spot via text message: The boy said that he had felt a heavy blast . . . . Continue Reading »
Luxembourg is hell bent on enacting euthanasia legislation, but the sovereign Grand Duke Henri refuses to sign the bill, which would prevent it from taking effect. What to do? Change the constitution! From the story:Luxembourg was plunged into a constitutional crisis on Tuesday after the sovereign, . . . . Continue Reading »
My name has appeared on the masthead now for almost two months, but i have hesitated to pen an inaugural entry, especially since, unlike some of the others in the group, i have no full-fledged manifesto to announce. And — as these things go — the longer one waits, the more difficult it . . . . Continue Reading »
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