Matthew Schmitz

Robert P. George puts the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate in perspective: Interestingly, Obama and his people have been willing to break the hearts of those on the left when it comes Guantanamo, rendition, basic procedural rights of detainees and those accused . . . . Continue Reading »

WaPo’s Lazy Critique of the March for Life Mark Judge, Real Clear Religion The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe Michael Stokes Paulsen, Public Discourse Don’t Tell A Muslim to Give up Sharia Harris Zafar, Washington Post The Next Dr. Kevorkian Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post Push for . . . . Continue Reading »

Richard Doerflinger, the USCCB’s great legislative ace, offers a sobering addendum in the  comments  to Matt Franck’s post: One small cavil: The contraceptive mandate policy will not be deferred a year. It will apply this year, as originally planned, to the vast majority of . . . . Continue Reading »

Polish Pop Star Gets Bible Fine Scott Maniquet,  National Post Religion Is Divisive and Conservative—-and A Very Good Thing Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, Huffington Post Europeans Opt for De-baptism Elizabeth Bryan, Religion News Service Why Tibetan Monks are Setting Themselves on Fire Lois . . . . Continue Reading »

A reader of the New York Times’  Ethicist column asks if she needs to inform her fiancé about her egg donation: As a very broke and self-supporting 20-year-old college senior, I donated my eggs in exchange for money. It was a horrendous experience, and I rarely speak about it. . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s an all-American story. A baby has been caught ” tebowing ” in the womb, reports a Denver station: I see two possible readings of young Champ’s actions. He is either a hero sent to confound and dismay blue America by doing the most wildly red-state things . . . . Continue Reading »

In the latest issue of  Sacred Architecture , Pablo Alvarez Funes describes how the eccentric and controversial Sagrada Familia became a nation’s church: The building of a church of this size could not be unconnected with controversy. In 1965 a manifesto against the continuation of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Female Screams We Don’t Want to Hear Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, National Post The Gospel in the Abortion Culture Russell Moore, Moore to the Point Transplants for the Disabled Art Caplan , MSNBC Meet the Alliance Defense Fund Tom McFeely, National Catholic Register New Direction for the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Independent  reports on a new documentary: It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having . . . . Continue Reading »

I do not doubt that the four Republican New York state senators who voted for same-sex marriage are convinced of the rightness of their votes. I would, however, look askance at any suggestion that they are the courageous  new  heroes  of our time, with motives wholly principled and . . . . Continue Reading »