July 4th, 2009 by Kevin Schmiesing, Ph.D.
There is a paradox at the heart of liberty, a tension between our desiring what is good and our willingness to sacrifice true happiness for fleeting satisfaction. “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom,” abolitionist Wendell Phillips said. Lord Acton…
July 3rd, 2009 by Russell Shaw
Two flawed interpretations of the ecumenical enterprise are disturbingly widespread among Catholics today. One is “progressive,” the other “traditionalist.” Both are wrong.
The progressive version goes like this. Fifty years ago, in the time of Pope John XXIII and Vatican Council…
Tags: Anglicanism, Christian unity, ecumenism, Kenneth D. Whitehead, Orthodox, Pope Benedict, Pope John XXII, Russian Orthodox Church, Ut Unum Sint, Vatican II
July 2nd, 2009 by George Weigel
Although I have lived in the Washington, D.C., area since 1984, I am an orthodox Baltimorean by birth, nurture, education, baseball loyalties, and a settled disdain for offering tartar sauce with crab cakes. So I should be the last person…
July 1st, 2009 by Colin Mason
According to the New York Times, it doesn’t really matter, because you probably don’t understand the terms anyway.
According to the Times, the recent Gallup Poll showing that a majority of Americans are pro-life is faulty at best, and downright sinister…
June 30th, 2009 by Fr. Frank Pavone
I recently had a conversation with a woman named Laura, who volunteers in the mail room at Priests for Life. She told me an interesting story about her son, Salvatore, who was born in 1973, the year Roe. Vs. Wade legalized…
June 29th, 2009 by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Who won the Cold War? That’s a no-brainer. The United States prevailed while the Soviet Union collapsed, and the People’s Republic of China dumped Marxism; capitalism (free markets and private property) triumphed over socialism (centrally planned markets and state-owned property);…
Tags: Big Government, capitalism, Cold War, Marxism, national dept, People’s Republic of China, Prime Minister Putin, Russia, Stanislav Mishin, Tim Geithner
June 27th, 2009 by Tom Purcell
I’m torn, if you want to know the truth.
Last week, the United States Senate passed the “Cash for Clunkers” bill — they tucked it into an emergency war-funding bill — and President Obama will soon sign it into law.
Here’s how…
June 26th, 2009 by Cheryl Dickow
To be named the “Worst Person in the World” is quite a feat. After all, the world is a very big place — and I’m not just saying this as a proud, current inhabitant — I know this to be true…
June 25th, 2009 by George Weigel
They were two of the giant figures of the last half of the 20th century — Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II — and they had many things in common. Both were trained actors whose craft had taught them…
June 24th, 2009 by Steven W. Mosher
Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon…