Religion
It’s strange that this, from Rod Dreher’s argument for the centrality of religious social conservatives to the Republican Party, should have the air of something controversial: Times change. Today, the greatest threats to conservative interests come not from the Soviet Union or high taxes, but from too much individual freedom. Look around you: Americans have…
The left’s investment in identity politics has proven to reap rewards. In battling the concept that people should develop their senses of self in such a way as to deemphasize a relative superficiality like ethnicity, the planners and plotters and goers-along cleared the field for such results as this: Political and sociological analysts in several…
With a H/T to Rossputin, here is Father Sirico of the Acton Institute offering his assessment of the current state of economic thinking: …That when one divorces freedom from faith both freedom and faith suffer. Freedom becomes rudderless (because truth gives freedom its direction). It is left up for grabs to the most adept political…
Something has seemed tellingly erroneous about liberals’ declarations of conservatives’ desperateness and their premature schadenfreude related to the presumed outcome of the election. Liberals misapprehend something very basic in the conservative philosophy, which, although it varies in form and degree across the right-wing spectrum, is partly definitive. Those perplexed by the partisan or ideological happiness…
So, if you were to see the headline “Priest compelled to reveal he’s gay,” what would you expect to see in the story? That the Church (or somebody) forced him to admit his orientation as a targeted effort laced with malice. But in actuality, the LA Times story to which the Providence Journal gave that…
In his two-part (one, two) revisitation of Humanae Vitae, Fr. John Kiley misses the mark in one instance. From part two: [Contraception] destroys unitive intimacy by dividing the couple: the condom places all responsibility on the husband; the pill or diaphragm places all responsibility on the wife. By passing responsibility to one or the other,…
John Paul II was elected Pope 30 years ago today. This posting contains links to many articles about him: John Paul II, Requiescat in pacem Two additional postings about Pope John Paul II: Follow Me: John Paul II Roused Us From a Lethargic Faith A Poignant Reflection on John Paul II
Among the factors that most impress me as indicative of the accuracy of the Roman Catholic faith is the mutual leaven of those influences that we are to consider when assessing the world in which we live. The individual conscience is sacrosanct, personal revelation possible, and compassion paramount, yet absolute truth exists, and organizational process…
[In light of Bishop Thomas Tobin’s call yesterday for ICE to halt “mass” arrests of illegal immigrants, Pastor Mlyniec’s Engaged Citizen post of April has been moved to the top of the blog.] Dear Governor Carcieri, It seems the media has chosen to portray all the clergy in our state as standing together with one…
Work and other responsibilities have kept me away from the keyboard, of late, and my first production upon stealing a brief while for writing came in the form of some philosophical waxing. I’ve posted it over at Dust in the Light, if you’re interested. I’ll try to get to something more appropriately in the Anchor…