My husband is a Jesuit-educated fellow, and he has a great deal of respect for the way Jesuits help to hone a student’s reasoning abilities and encourage a life-long love of disciplined study. So he was both troubled and pleased — but admittedly mostly troubled — to read this piece by Matt Emerson, who teaches at a Jesuit Prep school: “The frontier” is the metaphor the Society of Jesus recently selected to frame the position of Jesuit education in the... Read more
Via Lifesite News: Prosecutors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania announced today they will seek the death penalty for abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell, who faces charged related to killing a woman in a botched abortion and killing babies infanticides.” [. . .] prosecutors notified his attorney, Jack McMahon, that they will seek death by lethal injection if a jury finds Gosnell guilty of first-degree murder in the counts he faces. Gosnell faces a third-degree murder charge related to the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya... Read more
Remember that old chambermaid skit on Rowan and Martin’s “Laugh-In” where the two cockney maids would grouse about “sex and vy-o-lens” – that feels a little like what I’m reading today: On Sexy!: Tim Muldoon’s look at Sex and the anti-economics of love: And since women have not on a large scale conspired to raise the price of sex (as in Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata, in which women halt a war by refusing sex till it’s over), men remain the parties... Read more
My Tuesday column this week was inspired by Fox News’ Mike Tobin’s thoughts on hate as he has covered the demonstrations in Wisconsin: One thing I think should make clear – the people coming after us from every live shot here, these people hate,” Tobin said. “These are people who don’t respect diverse viewpoints . . .Now, I am not saying that’s all of the people. Those are the people that come here and heckle and try to disrupt things.... Read more
Yesterday I joked about inviting people to watch the “real In the Arena” (shades of “The Real Ghostbusters!) and not Eliot Spitzer’s secondary show, but today I invite you to read David Mills’ piece about the real Gospel, and Catholic branding: Last Thursday an annoyed columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News complained that Chestnut Hill College, a small Catholic college in the suburbs run by the Sisters of St. Joseph, had let go an adjunct religion professor who served as... Read more
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If you missed Sr. Lisa Doty talking about talking in Church, do check her out, and while you’re over at the portal, do yourself a favor and avail yourself of some thoughts on promises and propaganda. First, read Max Lindenman — typically sharp, sweet and funny — On Dating Nice Catholic Girls: Annie Proulx once ascribed to a crippled ex-rodeo cowboy “a carved-wood quietude common among people who had been a long time without sex, out of the commerce of... Read more
I know, I know, the Oscars Red Carpet dresses/runway show begins at 7:00 PM, but if you’re not into that, you might want to consider heading over to www.netny.net to watch this week’s episode of the real (Spitzer-free) “In the Arena” where Jane Hanson, Commonweal’s Grant Gallicho, Msgr. Kieran Harrington and I had a great time skype-talking to Patrick Leinen, one of the designers of the “Confession app,” and playing with my iPad; we also talked alternative media, blogs –... Read more
To the surprise of no one, Kathleen Parker is departing CNN’s Parker/Spitzer; Kathleen Parker, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who co-hosted CNN’s 8 p.m. show, is leaving just five months after the show debuted, the company announced Friday. “I have decided to return to a schedule that will allow me to focus more on my syndicated newspaper column and other writings,” Parker said in a statement. She said she enjoyed her time on the show “Parker Spitzer” with former New York... Read more
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