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In contrast to Ayn Rand's refusal to recognize even relatives as having any claim upon...

"I cannot like you or want to help you without reason," Ayn Rand wrote her...

"They are not besotted with the Pope as the Vicar of Christ. They are interested...

The movie was, if anything, an advertisement for virginity. The Smokers, an indy production I saw...

A friend writes on Facebook with a similar story that those I told in my last...

St. Francis de Sales is the patron of writers and journalists, and said a great many wise...

Speak of others as you would have them speak of you is the rule for...

This has lessons for liturgy, good and bad: an Italian researcher working with the University...

Many people don't like other people living outside the middle class mainstream and insist on...

Something I stumbled upon while looking for something: the great nineteenth-century Baptist preacher Charles Haddon...

Anglicans have written some of the greatest Christmas hymns, the ones Catholics sing at Christmas...

"For those of us who weren’t brought up cooking and sewing, modern conveniences make any...

A friend asks about the moral use of vaccines that were developed with or use...

From Elizabeth Scalia's latest, this mother's insight into praying for other mothers with sons: Having...

Another item from the past year I'd like to post again. By which, "love is...

Individualism, according to the old Catholic Encyclopedia, is "The tendency to magnify individual liberty, as against external authority,...

From Commonweal in 1935: G. K. Chesterton's Santa Claus and Science. One point he makes:...

"Merry Christmas, I mean if you celebrate it," said a women to whom I'd given...

More on Miss Rand, covered earlier in Ayn Rand As Some People Have (Alas) Never Seen...

Another repeat, this one offered for its relevance for this season in which it is...

Just got a comment quoting a sentence from an item and saying "This sentence needs...

We (Patheos Catholic bloggers) have been instructed to feature older material in order to better...

A contribution to the description of a movement among politically conservative Catholics I described in...

Interesting and useful: 8 Maps That Will Change the Way You Look at Africa. The site...

In response to Speaking to Jews, New Testament scholar Leroy Huizenga writes on Twitter: "My...

Hysterical and absolutely accurate: Father James Martin's reconstruction of email discussions about his writing, What's THAT...

Two good tweets from Arthur Brooks (@arthurbrooks), the president of the American Enterprise Institute: What...

Do not ask someone who might be Jewish if he's "a Jew." I would have...

Not directly, of course. Responding to yesterday's Joel Osteen, Gosh, my friend Kevin Flaherty, head...

Not a shock: megachurch celebrity tv star preacher Joel Osteen doesn't know the Bible, reports...