November 2, 2009

Politics Daily reports on Swine Flu panic in churches: Christians not only gather together for worship at least weekly, but they also dip their fingers in common fonts of holy water, pass baskets up and down the pews to collect donations, exchange handshakes and hugs

November 2, 2009

More embarrassing, unbecoming, grovelling sycophancy from America’s artists and intellectuals when it comes to Barack Obama. Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is lauding our president’s literary gifts, saying he is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar: This is the

October 30, 2009

This weekend is lots of holidays, sacred and profane, overlapping and one after another. So we will contemplate them all.

October 30, 2009

If the Church were to go through another Reformation today, what do you think needs reforming? What are the issues today?

October 30, 2009

Jack Chick is that anti-Catholic comic book artist who also puts out evangelistic tracts, including ones that some Christians give out as Halloween treats. You’ve got to read Joe Carter’s account of these things, which includes actual horrific panels for the little kiddies, with the

October 30, 2009

Stephen Asma is a philosophy professor writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Monsters and the Moral Imagination. Here is some of his theory: The uses of monsters vary widely. In our liberal culture, we dramatize the rage of the monstrous creature—and Frankenstein's is

October 30, 2009

We recently discussed the need for unity in the Church. But isn’t there already the only unity in the Church that really matters? All who believe and have been baptized in Christ are part of His Body, the Holy Christian Church. Isn’t it like the

October 29, 2009

Yesterday we discussed what’s so great about America, covering the gamut of national greatness from Americans’ strong professions of faith to the superiority of American ketchup. Now, following those great American traditions of giving everyone equal time and of welcoming patriotic self-criticism, let us discuss

October 29, 2009

The hate crime law has been expanded: President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed and celebrated hate crime legislation that extends protection to people based on sexual orientation, sealing a long-fought victory to gay advocates. The president spoke of a nation becoming a place where "we're

October 29, 2009

Former Marine captain and Iraq war veteran Michael Hoh took a job in the foreign service as a diplomat serving in Afghanistan. He resigned, saying that we don’t really know what we are doing there and that the sacrifices are not worth it. Here is


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