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July 2014

July 30, 2014
"I go to visit a local family," writes the journalist Tuvia Tenenbom. "It is Friday...
July 30, 2014
In My Church Loyalties, the Methodist philosopher and Marquette professor D. Stephen Long explains why he...
July 30, 2014
From the New York Times' report of the corruption trial of former governor of Virginia...
July 29, 2014
"A survey commissioned by USA Network of 18-34 year olds in four cities (Austin, Omaha, Nashville, and Phoenix)...
July 29, 2014
"Even many devout monogamists admit that it can be hard for one partner to supply...
July 29, 2014
Signs from (and of) the past, on the confessionals in St. Peter Church in the...
July 28, 2014
"Really? Should our standard of moral action be that we’re not as bad as the...
July 28, 2014
In Don't Eat Dogs, published last night, I quoted Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry's defense of eating dogs...
July 27, 2014
First, my friend and then-colleague Barbara McClay explained Why You Shouldn't Eat Dogs. We accord...
July 26, 2014
Catholic neo-conservatives, explains Patrick Deneen in an interview on Ethika Politika (on whose board both...
July 25, 2014
"I'm not all that surprised when I hear of 18-year-olds who expected to hold a...
July 24, 2014
Driving back from a trip a couple of days ago, I was listening to one...
July 24, 2014
I have my doubts about the Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory, described in The Pastoral MBTI, but...
July 24, 2014
Asked by America's interviewer what the bishops should be doing for victims of clerical sexual...
July 23, 2014
Francis would like Anglicans to become Catholics. With English Anglicans having yet more reason to...
July 23, 2014
He's not a pope, the archbishop of Canterbury says, because "we [the Church of England]...
July 23, 2014
“'With Peter, I say: 'To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal...
July 22, 2014
Francis is either foolish or cunning, is the basic division among Catholics bothered by things...
July 22, 2014
Facebook, observes Jess Zimmerman writing in The Guardian, is testing a "buy" button that will allow you...
July 21, 2014
The Meyers-Briggs [Personality] Type Inventory is a way of categorizing people along four spectra producing...
July 18, 2014
An historical curiosity from my friend William Tighe, a vast repository of information about European...
July 18, 2014
In yesterday's Love is Not Love, I quoted William Luse's explanation of why that popular...
July 17, 2014
Vocal disappointment with and disapproval of Pope Francis  is a line increasingly taken by conservative...
July 17, 2014
By which the writer, William Luse, means "love" is not love. Writing in Christendom Review,...
July 17, 2014
Those of you who have weblogs will know the annoyance of those usually half-literate fake...
July 17, 2014
So far, in his reading of the Talmud, writes the literary critic Adam Kirsch, it...
July 16, 2014
A useful resource, giving quotes from Pope Francis on social and economic issues arranged by topic,...
July 16, 2014
There's something very ugly in this rage against Israel, argues/notes/reveals/ explains Brendan O'Neil on Spiked! A...
July 16, 2014
"Hamas wants to die, obviously and visibly," writes David P. Goldman, provocatively, as he does,...
July 16, 2014
"Books a man should read," especially when the list appears in Esquire, suggests a list...
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