Matthew Schmitz

Matthew Milliner offers readers an invigorating walk through New York that encompasses the political, artistic, and religious. It begins at an apartment in the East Village: As I walked into my hospitable friend’s East Village apartment, I was greeted by three handsome volumes of Lenin . . . . Continue Reading »

John McWhorter, writing in the New York Times , defends the new, casual modes of communication: In an earlier America, then, one could hear speeches like William Jennings Bryan’s floridly oratorical, carefully written “ Cross of Gold” speech given at the Democratic National . . . . Continue Reading »

Art Caplan, a well-regarded liberal bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, reports on a new study on the risks of IVF and ICSI: An article just published in the highly respected journal Fertility and Sterility ought to give anyone thinking about using “test tube” baby technology . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing at the Weekly Standard, Phillip Muñoz argues for the merits of the recent statement on religious freedom by the Catholic bishops: The Obama administration was not against an exemption per se, it just wanted a narrow one that only covered church employees serving members of their own . . . . Continue Reading »

As many of you know, Chuck Colson, found of Prison Fellowship and one of the conveners of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, has been in critical condition following a surgery. Prison Fellowship released the following statement on his worsening condition: Dear Friends: It is with a heavy, but . . . . Continue Reading »

Comes in a  New York Times   piece aimed are reviving the reputation of campus “sex weeks,” in which the writer acknowledge there has been “some opposition” to these events: Sex weeks have faced some opposition from colleges, alumni and students nearly everywhere . . . . Continue Reading »

Anne Hendershott and my friend Christopher White have a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal  cheering the new surge in priestly vocations: What explains the trend? Nearly 20 years ago, Archbishop Elden Curtiss, then leader of the Omaha, Neb., diocese, suggested that when dioceses are . . . . Continue Reading »

In a report on the online sex industry, TIME raises some questions about the future of the pornography industry’s business model: Porn — perhaps because it, unlike prostitution, is often legal — is a much bigger business online, though reliable numbers on the industry are hard to . . . . Continue Reading »

Several pro-life outlets are cheering the fact that Timothy Dolan came in ahead of Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People poll. I, too, was pleased to see the result, though I have to admit that it strikes me as a little lamentable that . . . . Continue Reading »

Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland has  called on his flock  to challenge rising secularism by wearing crosses and other religious symbols over their clothing. My first reaction to this news was a pleasant surprise. As someone who paid little attention to the British scene, I knew . . . . Continue Reading »