Last Sunday was the day the Church commemorates the conversion of St. Paul. Which reminds us that God can potentially break in upon anyone, including those who, like Saul of Tarsus, are most opposed to the Christian faith. (more…)
Marquette is a Roman Catholic institution affiliated with the Jesuit order, one member of which is Pope Francis. According to Catholic author Howard Kainz, Marquette has suspended and banned from campus a tenured professor for saying that arguments against gay marriage should be allowed to
A newspaper is reporting that Russian oil companies connected to Vladimir Putin are funding some American environmentalist groups that are trying to stop the practice of fracking. Russia is, of course, not particularly interested in saving the American environment, but, like Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich
Patheos has a blog called The Evangelical Pulpit that posts a wide range of material and that you can actually contribute to. (I urge you to put together a submission if you have something pertinent to say.) One of my prized students, Nick Barden, has
The American Sniper movie is stirring up big controversy in some circles for supposedly glorifying war. But it’s also a monster hit, possibly on its way to becoming the most popular war movie ever. Film critic Ann Hornaday says that it’s an example of a
India’s laws are very pro-labor, so that it’s almost impossible for employers to fire someone. Case in point: One day in 1990, A.K. Verma went on what you might call “extended” leave from his job as a senior bureaucrat at India’s Central Public Works Department.
Statism is the belief that the government should control or dominate all, or much, of life. C. S. Lewis was against it. David Theroux, president of the C. S. Lewis Society of California, sent me the video of a talk he gave at the first
The liberal Catholic columnist E. J. Dionne says that the old culture wars are fading, but that a new culture war is taking shape. The new one has to do with battles over immigration and poverty. Complicating those controversies, he says, is that the Roman
The economy of Greece has been a basket case, with a national debt that is more than the gross national product, leading to a European Union bailout that has imposed an “austerity” program of slashed government spending, higher taxes, and lower wages. But now the
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