On the Culture

Hugh O’Flaherty: The Vatican Pimpernel By Dr. Jeff Mirus | March 12, 2010

Daniel Heisey's article on Msgr. Hugh O’Flaherty (1898 – 1963) in the current issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review reminds me to recommend a fine movie called the The Scarlet and the Black. It stars Gregory Peck as

On The News

the effort to implicate the Pope [updated] By Phil Lawler | March 12, 2010

Count on the London Times to offer the most sensational coverage of a news story involving the Catholic Church. The headline on today's report by Richard Owen screams:  Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to

On Business

St. Bernard’s Thoughts on Humility, Applied to Business By Peter Mirus | March 08, 2010

When you make it a point in life to think about sound business principles and to think about sound spiritual principles, you are bound to notice obvious correlations. As many readers know, I have been rereading In the Steps of Humility

• Off the Record
  

  • 03/12/10 devout atheists
  • 03/11/10 hate crime
  • 03/11/10 purported priests
  • 03/10/10 lights out
  • 03/10/10 never change a winning game
  • 03/05/10 hot potato
  • 03/04/10 the ninnies who educate Catholic children
  • 03/01/10 a happy ending

• In Depth Analysis

  March 11, 2010 On Prudence and the Tyranny of Tolerance: A Case Study By Dr. Jeff Mirus

  Our coverage of the decision of a Catholic school not to enroll a student being raised by lesbians has stimulated a vigorous exchange of ideas (see Denver Catholic school: Lesbian couple’s child may not re-enroll, and Archbishop Chaput defends school’s decision not to re-enroll lesbian’s children and my commentary, Teaching with Blood). Many readers offered opinions on the question of whether the school was right or wrong to exclude the child, with some holding that the