The Epistle reading for Transfiguration Day yesterday is quite remarkable, an account from St. Peter himself about his having witnessed the Transfiguration of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels: For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power
Insurgents in Iraq made use of mentally handicapped women as suicide bombers. Indeed, they loaded up two women with Down’s Syndrome, those sweet-tempered children, and blew them up, killing nearly 80 other people. How much more monstrous than the jihadists get? Can moral relativists rationalize
Movement conservatives are rallying behind Mitt Romney as the conservative alternative to John McCain. But here are reasons to think that Romney is alsonot really a conservative. Huckabee has been accused of departing from the true political faith based largely on some things he did
Here is a rather amusing site in which two Washington Post staffers offer close readings of each “Lost” episode. It’s like theologians exegeting the Bible. But useful for us “Lost” fans, since they pick up all those details and hidden clues that most of us
What a game. Though I was for the Giants, it’s a little sad to see perfection marred. As for the other aspects of the spectacle: I have always liked Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but I don’t see what their mini-concert had to do with
The NFL is cracking down on churches that show the Superbowl on their big screens. See this article from the “Washington Post” entitled NFL Pulls Plug On Big-Screen Church Parties For Super Bowl. Many churches that have sponsored these parties have received letters from the
Charles Krauthammer has a provocative column on Clinton’s lust for a legacy, which he says motivates him to do ANYTHING to get his wife elected and himself back in the White House. The bitter irony, says Krauthammer, is that Clinton’s major accomplishment was to consolidate
An updated version of the Three Little Pigs was turned down for a government prize in England because “the use of pigs raises cultural issues.” The Brits felt the story might be offensive to Muslims, who consider pigs to be unclean. But no Muslims even
The woes of the credit industry that are dragging down the economy cannot all be blamed on the housing sector. According to this article, banks are finding it impossible to unload some $220 billion of corporate buyout debt. No one will buy those bonds, so
Maggie Gallagher tells about a study showing that Americans feel less free to express themselves, less than they did in the McCarthy era of the allegedly conformist 1950’s. In 1954, 13% of Americans feared expressing themselves openly. Now, 24%–nearly a fourth–do not feel free to
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