On The News

August 31, 2010 3:24 PM Why do editors tolerate misleading reports? By Phil Lawler

Granted, secular newspapers are not in the business of settling theological disputes. But they are—or should be—in the business of providing their readers with accurate information. This headline from the Arizona Republic can

On the Culture

September 01, 2010 2:07 PM The Challenge of Bio-Medical Advances By Dr. Jeff Mirus

Contemporary biological research continues to raise questions about what it means to be human. New bio-medical technologies now permit the manufacture of some replacement organs, not by building them from parts foreign to the body, but by

Catholic World News: Today's Top Stories

• Orthodox Patriarch calls for ‘titanic and righteous battle’ to protect the environment
• Critic of Christianity vies to become Japanese prime minister
• North Korean dictator visits Catholic church in China
• Pro-Obama Catholic group apparently folds
• Woman weeps over her abortion at Austin abortion funding hearing
• Retired Anglican primate defends ‘heroic’ Irish Catholic priests
• Karnataka rapped for ‘exonerating’ police officials in church attacks
• Abbey’s youngest monk becomes abbot, university chancellor
• Pakistan: Christian village deliberately flooded
• British media outrage over Church's official's condemnation of 'culture of death'

In Depth Analysis

August 26, 2010 The time is now for reform of the CCHD By Phil Lawler

For more than 25 years, since the days of the Reagan administration, conservative Catholics have complained that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the official “anti-poverty” effort of the US bishops’ conference, has become too closely allied with leftist political causes—in some cases even funding radical groups that promote causes such as legal abortion and same-sex marriage. At long last, those criticisms have begun to have a serious impact. Last

In Depth Analysis

August 20, 2010 Providence, Sin and Love, for Jews and Christians By Dr. Jeff Mirus

In the last issue of First Things, J. H. H. Weiler portrays “The Trial of Jesus” (June/July 2010) not only as the trial of Jesus himself but as a Divine test of Jewish fidelity. Would the Jews remain faithful to the Law even in the face of temptation by a prophet who tried to draw them away from it? Believing ultimately that they did remain faithful, Weiler concludes by raising this question: “Is it not possible…that in this double trial, that of Jesus and that of the Jews,

On Business

August 31, 2010 9:51 PM Back By Peter Mirus

I didn’t write in this blog during my summer hiatus (the last 30 days, or so), which involved an intense period of business development for my company and a trip to Lake Champlain in upstate New York (where God lives). The time

Off the Record

• 08/30/10 no foul no harm
• 08/30/10 be prepared
• 08/27/10 artful ambiguity?
• 08/25/10 whatever you do, don't mention the science
• 08/25/10 who wants a 2nd-class priesthood?
• 08/24/10 promise them anything