Weigel and Islam

Last updated on: February 28, 2008 at 5:23 pm By Morning's Minion

William Cavanaugh has a review of George Weigel’s Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism. From simply reading Cavanaugh’s review, Weigel’s treatise on Islam and “jihadism” seems shockingly ignorant. It is little more than a justification for the “war on terror” promoted by the Bush administration and cheered on by a coterie of fellow-travelers, whereby all Muslims with a beef against the United States are lumped into one big nasty group of “jihadists”, regardless of context. Weigel’s chief ontribution is basically to say that... Read more

Vatican Emissary Condemns Cuban Embargo

Last updated on: February 28, 2008 at 4:07 pm By Edward Blackadder

Benedict XVI’s secretary of state has called the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba “ethically unacceptable.”Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone reiterated Monday the opposition of the Holy See to the economic embargo against Cuba in a joint press conference with the country’s Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque. “The Holy See repeats the words of Pope John Paul II: The embargo is ethically unacceptable,” said the Vatican representative. “It is an oppression for the Cuban people and it is not a means to help... Read more

The Supreme Court Transcripts

Last updated on: February 28, 2008 at 2:29 am By Radical Catholic Mom

Can a company be held accountable under maritime law for punitive damages? Very good read. Read more

The Case for Early Marriage

Last updated on: February 27, 2008 at 8:26 pm By Edward Blackadder

Progressives look at how early people come of age sexually and how late they come of age economically in our society and propose prophylaxis—literally, in the form of condoms, and metaphorically through long sexual try-outs. So we have the Lori Gottliebs who act on good faith in terms of this societal narrative and find themselves betrayed and struggling, if not downright miserable. But is it enough for traditionalists to say keep it in your pants? Maybe we have to recognize... Read more

May he rest in peace.

Last updated on: February 27, 2008 at 4:27 pm By Matthew

William F. Buckley (1925-2008): requiescat in pace. Ipsi Domine, et omnibus in Christo quiescentibus, locum refrigerii, lucis et pacis, ut indulgeas, deprecamur. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. Read more

Pumping Negatives

Last updated on: February 27, 2008 at 4:25 pm By M.Z.

The conventional wisdom seems to be that if you pump Obama’s negatives, you’ll have a path to the election. Mark Halperin basically suggests this in his bullet points. Stuart Rothenberg is less explicit on this point. This was also the conventional wisdom with Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. George H.W. Bush did successfully do it. Al Gore was as close as you come to successfully doing it without actually doing it. Bush was going into the weekend before the... Read more

This Book Offers New Insight From The Sermon On The Mount

Last updated on: February 27, 2008 at 8:06 am By Henry Karlson

Ok. This book doesn’t exist. Yet. Read more

Where Have The Catholics Gone

Last updated on: February 26, 2008 at 11:40 pm By M.Z.

Can. 515 §1. A parish is a certain community of the Christian faithful stably constituted in a particular church, whose pastoral care is entrusted to a pastor (parochus) as its proper pastor (pastor) under the authority of the diocesan bishop. Where there is no community stably constituted, there is in the end no parish. Compare the parish registries of 100 years ago to those of today. When looking at that parish registry of 100 years ago, scratch off every name... Read more