With the election season heating up and the usual sins threatening to conquer us, it’s time to talk about… art. Eve Tushnet makes a penetrating
As you’ve likely heard by now, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced this weekend that Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would be his running mate.
If it causes pain, it cannot be true. This principle, it seems to me, is an unspoken premise underlying the general public’s passionate opposition to
Now that it’s officially summer, it’s time to start your summer reading! I’ve decided to help you out with a compilation of lists: the Best
This month, hundreds of college students and recent grads — many of them aspiring politicians — will flock to the nation’s capital for coveted government-related
In the latest installment of USA Today’s On Religion series, veteran journalist Judith Valente writes about Benedictine nuns in Atchison, Kansas. One choice sentence: “Whatever
When older sister and I were finishing up middle school, my parents decided that the local public high school (in a very liberal town) nearby
Chesterton gets it right again: The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical
In keeping with my tradition of quoting other people in order to come up with a blog post, I want to discuss a piece someone
What has been is what will be,/ and what has been done is what will be done; / and there is nothing new under the
On a visit to the National Gallery of Art in DC the other day, I ended up in the same exhibit room as two middle-aged
“The more money we spend on schools today, the less we’ll have to spend on missiles tomorrow.” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote that
According to one admittedly unscientific survey, 37% of Occupy Wall Street protesters believe that capitalism is inherently immoral — presumably because they think it encourages
“What does being Catholic mean to you?” That may sound like a corny question asked of high-schoolers at a church youth group… because it is,
Presumably we all know the basic definition: “Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our
The USCCB is at it again: they’re telling us how to vote. Without actually telling us how to vote. Since 1976, the nation’s bishops have
Last week I came across a publication explicitly dedicated to lobbying for abortion… and simultaneously claiming to be Catholic. (See my footnote for more on
Confession: I’m behind on my to-do list, my creative juices are running dry, and I do not have an original, funny, up-to-the-minute post for you
Here, my friends, we have a chart illustrating the rot infecting the soul of the modern West. Or, at least, that fraction of the West
For the first time in my life I am no longer a student — in the formal sense, at least. Whether you’re starting a new
Photo credit: Western Theological Seminary on Flickr Once upon a time, in a college classroom, a professor asked me what I believed about some arcane
