June 19, 2013
Speaking before 2000 young people upon his recent arrival in Ireland, President Obama raised the old canard that...
At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act:
Understanding why religious liberty became politically controversial requires more than just identifying the political fault lines. The underlying problem is our society’s movement toward a Rousseauian, and away from an authentically American, conception of religion’s role in...
Among the rough and ready tests of character, this seems a very good one, not infallible but close to it, accounting for the occasional hard day, bad headache, annoying companions: “The way people treat restaurant staff is, I think, a kind of poker tell, revealing a person’s character in as long as it takes to say: ‘I’ll have the sea bass’.” Writing in The Guardian,...
“In February, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edith Jones gave a controversial speech defending and endorsing the American system of capital punishment,” says Stephanos Bibas in...
Priests’ councils “treat parishes as square holes into which pastors are fitted like interchangeable pegs,” says George Weigel in today’s column.
There are “good parishes” and “tough parishes”; good parishes are given out as rewards; tough parishes are assigned as a matter of sharing burdens within a presbyterate (or worse, as warnings or punishments...
When it comes to mixing religion and politics, I’ve often thought, the principle seems to be, it’s wrong when the other guy does it. For example, conservatives become annoyed when Christians call for liberalizing immigration laws or for universal healthcare. Don’t impose your...Here’s why you’re never going to be president of the United States, Senator Rubio. I don’t mind politicians with principles that differ from my own. But I mind one hell of a damned lot when politicians either lie to my face about it or can’t or won’t make up their damned minds. Enjoy your six years because if there is...
Justin Taylor has a lovely post here summarizing what we might learn about Christian friendship from the correspondence of Esther Edwards Burr (1732-1758), Jonathan Edwards’ daughter and Aaron Burr’s mother, with her friend Sarah Prince.
An excerpt:
Modern readers are sometimes taken aback by the way in which same-sex friendships were...
Fr. George Rutler, pastor of the vibrantly orthodox Church of Our Saviour in midtown Manhattan, is being reassigned to St. Michael’s Church in Hell’s Kitchen. In his...
