Climate Change and Dogmatic Denial

Last updated on: February 11, 2008 at 5:00 pm By Policraticus

As the great German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer noted, science, like all fields, is interpretation. This is not to relativize or minimize its importance, but simply to note the truism that no one–not even the most conscientious or disinterested scientist–is capable of giving a “God’s-eye view of things.” Even the scientist brings his/her own presuppositions, expectations and paradigms to bear in their research. Thus, we should not be completely and totally surprised that the issue of climate change is subject to... Read more

Book Review: The Girls Who Went Away

Last updated on: February 11, 2008 at 4:49 pm By Radical Catholic Mom

Last night I finished reading the gut wrenching book The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children For Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v Wade by Ann Fessler. I picked this book up on a pure whim, and yet it turns out it is one those must reads by anyone who considers themselves pro-life, especially in light of this year’s heated political debates. I had always heard stories about “those women” who had been... Read more

Book Review: The Girls Who Went Away

Last updated on: February 11, 2008 at 4:49 pm By Radical Catholic Mom

U.S. to seek death penalty for 9/11 detainees

Last updated on: February 11, 2008 at 4:20 pm By voxnovablog

Yes, because that is going to “help”. Read more

Vox Nova at the Movies: Michael Clayton

Last updated on: February 11, 2008 at 3:12 am By Edward Blackadder

When I was in law school, one of my professors gave me a piece of advice that I’ve carried with me ever since. He said that if you’re working on a case, and it begins to look like someone is going to jail, make sure it’s your client. (more…) Read more

A People Discover Their Church

Last updated on: February 10, 2008 at 9:00 pm By Radical Catholic Mom

A wonderful story out of LA about a priest inviting the neighborhood to own the parish. These are the results. Read more

“The Things That Are Not Caesar’s”

Last updated on: February 10, 2008 at 7:06 pm By rgarnett

Here’s more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova readers. If you are in or near DC, please consider attending. The invited presenters make up a rock-star list: John Garvey, Patrick McKinley Brennan, Kenneth Grasso, Carl H. Esbeck, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Thomas C. Berg, Ira C. “Chip” Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle, Michael P. Moreland, John H. Mansfield, Douglas Laycock. Here’s a summary of the agenda: Church autonomy issues are at... Read more

“An Inconvenient Truth”?

Last updated on: February 10, 2008 at 6:51 pm By rgarnett

Professor Bill Stuntz has a characteristically thoughtful essay, “The Inconvenient Truths of 2008,” over at The Weekly Standard. Professor Stuntz writes — and I agree — that conservatives need to understand the “inconvenient truth” that “[m]ost of today’s illegal immigrant population is here to stay (along with their descendants) and will pay no significant price for getting here outside the legal channels.” (I would note that not all conservatives share the talk-radio obsession with “the illegals”, and also that — although the... Read more

John Cardinal O’Connor on Dorothy Day’s sanctity

Last updated on: February 10, 2008 at 4:44 pm By Policraticus

John Cardinal O’Connor, who was Archbishop of New York until his death, called Dorothy Day a “saint” in his letter to the Vatican requesting the opening of her beatification cause. Some Catholics are uncomfortable over the manner in which she lived her faith in all aspects of her life. Cardinal O’Connor assures us: “I have subjected Dorothy Day’s post-conversion writings to the careful examination of a dogmatist, moralist, and canonist. All assure me that her writings are in complete fidelity... Read more

Pat Buchanan on John McCain

Last updated on: February 10, 2008 at 12:10 pm By Henry Karlson

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