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July 2014

July 30, 2014

Living With Rockets

"I go to visit a local family," writes the journalist Tuvia Tenenbom. "It is Friday...

July 30, 2014

Long’s Loyalties

In My Church Loyalties, the Methodist philosopher and Marquette professor D. Stephen Long explains why he...

July 30, 2014

Politicians & Felons

From the New York Times' report of the corruption trial of former governor of Virginia...

July 29, 2014

The Logic of Polyamory

"A survey commissioned by USA Network of 18-34 year olds in four cities (Austin, Omaha, Nashville, and Phoenix)...

July 29, 2014

The Marital Smorgasbord

"Even many devout monogamists admit that it can be hard for one partner to supply...

July 29, 2014

Old & New Confessions

Signs from (and of) the past, on the confessionals in St. Peter Church in the...

July 28, 2014

Ministry to Those Soon To Be Killed

"Really? Should our standard of moral action be that we’re not as bad as the...

July 28, 2014

But You Can Eat Cats

In Don't Eat Dogs, published last night, I quoted Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry's defense of eating dogs...

July 27, 2014

Don’t Eat Dogs

First, my friend and then-colleague Barbara McClay explained Why You Shouldn't Eat Dogs. We accord...

July 26, 2014

Deneen on the Catholic Neo-Conservative Division

Catholic neo-conservatives, explains Patrick Deneen in an interview on Ethika Politika (on whose board both...

July 25, 2014

False Beauties

"I'm not all that surprised when I hear of 18-year-olds who expected to hold a...

July 24, 2014

Judging Israel

Driving back from a trip a couple of days ago, I was listening to one...

July 24, 2014

The MBTI Explains the Limits of Open-Mindedness

I have my doubts about the Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory, described in The Pastoral MBTI, but...

July 24, 2014

What the Bishops Should Do For Victims

Asked by America's interviewer what the bishops should be doing for victims of clerical sexual...

July 23, 2014

Francis Invites the Anglicans In

Francis would like Anglicans to become Catholics. With English Anglicans having yet more reason to...

July 23, 2014

The Archbishop is Not the Pope

He's not a pope, the archbishop of Canterbury says, because "we [the Church of England]...

July 23, 2014

Sexuality, Sexual Abuse & Chastity: An Interview with Dawn Eden

“'With Peter, I say: 'To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal...

July 22, 2014

What Francis Is Up To

Francis is either foolish or cunning, is the basic division among Catholics bothered by things...

July 22, 2014

Intentionally Addicting Facebook

Facebook, observes Jess Zimmerman writing in The Guardian, is testing a "buy" button that will allow you...

July 21, 2014

The Pastoral MBTI

The Meyers-Briggs [Personality] Type Inventory is a way of categorizing people along four spectra producing...

July 18, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 6

An historical curiosity from my friend William Tighe, a vast repository of information about European...

July 18, 2014

Andrew Sullivan Makes Up Jesus

In yesterday's Love is Not Love, I quoted William Luse's explanation of why that popular...

July 17, 2014

The Wise Masked Chicken Speaks on Francis

Vocal disappointment with and disapproval of Pope Francis is a line increasingly taken by conservative...

July 17, 2014

Love Is Not Love

By which the writer, William Luse, means "love" is not love. Writing in Christendom Review,...

July 17, 2014

The Fake Commenter’s Form

Those of you who have weblogs will know the annoyance of those usually half-literate fake...

July 17, 2014

Early Jews Ignoring Early Christians

So far, in his reading of the Talmud, writes the literary critic Adam Kirsch, it...

July 16, 2014

What Francis Said

A useful resource, giving quotes from Pope Francis on social and economic issues arranged by topic,...

July 16, 2014

The Left’s Rage Against Israel

There's something very ugly in this rage against Israel, argues/notes/reveals/ explains Brendan O'Neil on Spiked! A...

July 16, 2014

Hamas, Israel, the West & Death

"Hamas wants to die, obviously and visibly," writes David P. Goldman, provocatively, as he does,...

July 16, 2014

Books Worth Reading, Unexpectedly Considering the Source

"Books a man should read," especially when the list appears in Esquire, suggests a list...

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