The Political Evil of the Tucson Shooting and the Political Courage that Must...
Yesterday I wrote about one of the victims of the Tucson shooting—Judge John Roll. Others were killed, but Roll I had seen in person and knew something about. As I read about the other victims—the...
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Civil Discourse and the Catholic Tradition
In the week since the awful shootings in Tucson, we have heard a lot about the need for civility, about civil discourse in our public speech about politics and public affairs. Some of the immediate...
View ArticleThe Myth That Is “Anti-Choice”
There’s been a lot of abortion debate flying around various blogs, Facebook, and Twitter lately, due to the upcoming Roe v. Wade anniversary, the recent arrest of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, and...
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Temptation in the City of Man: Corruption and the Catholic “Underground”...
There are certain vices that Catholics seem to be especially prone to—and even some that only Catholics can commit. At points where the structure of the Church or the fullness of the moral law is...
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What is God saying here? In South Bend, a Candidate Mourns and Wonders
Just west of Princeton... (UPDATE: Mike Hamann finished a distant second in the mayoral primary on Monday.) Today is primary election day in the mayoral race in South Bend, Indiana, a solidly...
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Prudence and the Professors: How NOT to Conduct Catholic Public Discourse
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, John Boehner, a Catholic and noted puffer of Camel unfiltered cigarettes, has been invited to deliver the commencement address this year at Washington’s...
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Bismarck and Pio Nono: Blood and Iron, Sand and Rock
The bloody and barbarous persecution of Christians of all confessions in the 20th-century Europe of Hitler and Communism seems to have been given its due in the formation of the 21st-century...
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A Scolding on the Tarmac…
(Note to Arizona’s Governor Brewer: if you really want to put the public smack down, it helps if you can get the other guy on his knees first.) The photograph depicts the famous Managua airport...
View ArticleBishop Olmsted: “We cannot – we will not – comply with this unjust law.”
Parishioners in the Diocese of Phoenix heard the following letter read from the pulpit this weekend: January 25, 2012 Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I write to...
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Belloc Got Asked…And He Told
Photograph of William F. Buckley, Jr. from the October 17, 1964 Saturday Evening Post In a 1964 Saturday Evening Post article, in the course of discussing Goldwater’s “recantation” on Social Security,...
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