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Another Disaster for Religious Freedom in the Courts 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Another week, and another disaster for the cause of religious freedom litigating in the courts. This past week the Supreme Court in New Mexico sustained the penalties meted out to Elaine and Jonathan...
Words of Gratitude 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
I watched and heard history as I was coming of age, which was when Michael Novak was making history – a great coming-of-age story in its own way, that’s all in his elegant and entertaining new memoir,...
The Preemptive Surrender of Jody Bottum 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Joseph Bottum, sometime friend of several of us at TCT, published a painfully long, painfully rambling article Friday in the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal saying that the Church is wasting its ...
Double Is Nothing 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
One cannot serve two masters, it has been said (by Our Lord), and that is the first thing to say about “Christian Democracy.” The proof is in the pudding of history. But here I do not quite mean the ...
Contraceptive Eating 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
As those who have been following this series may recall, a friend once asked the question: “Let’s say there are two women who love one another and are committed to one another the way you and your wi...
Islam and Democracy: Still Oil and Water 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
In a column last year, I discussed ex-Muslim “apostates” like Nonie Darwish who claim that democracy in the Western sense is impossible in Muslim-dominated countries, because Islamic “sharia” laws mus...
Memories of Malcolm Muggeridge 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
When I was a philosophy major at Iona College in the early 1970s, my mentor was the distinguished Thomistic philosopher, Dr. Larry Azar. The professor earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto...
On Loving Everybody – and Nobody 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Joseph Wood once asked me why I so highly esteem Samuel Johnson. Basically, I think that, if someone reads him, he has little other choice. In watching Pope Francis greet people, an issue comes up tha...
Learning and Faith 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
All over the country, students and parents are already on the way to campuses this week. In a long-ago age that some of us still breathing are old enough to remember, Fall terms began in September and...
On Faith and Cafeteria Catholicism 18 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
For years the expression “cafeteria Catholicism” has been used to describe an approach to the faith in which individual Catholics pick and choose the teachings of the Church they wish to believe or re...
