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How to Change Culture Our last ten tips, techniques and actions for forming a Catholic culture

• February 26, 2010 Culture Project: technical delay Phil Lawler

  Last week I promised that we would unveil our Culture Project "next week"-- that is, this week. Please bear with us; there's been a slight delay. It's my fault. In preparing the first

• February 04, 2010 praying for bishops Phil Lawler

  Praying for our bishops isn't a new idea. It isn't even an optional idea. It's an obligation for all of us. What's new is a web site devoted specifically to an initiative encouraging Catholics to

• January 22, 2010 loyal Catholic nuns: speak out! Phil Lawler

  Earlier this month CWN reported on the widespread resistance mounted by American women’s religious orders against a Vatican apostolic visitation. But the resistance is far from universal. Some

• January 21, 2010 Immigration Reform Dr. Jeff Mirus

  Once you accept the principle of subsidiarity in government (see Surprised by Subsidiarity), you are actually embarking on a new philosophy of life. This philosophy holds that the normal role of

• January 18, 2010 A Constitutional Challenge to Health 'Reform'? Dr. Jeff Mirus

  In addition to being a personal friend, Bob Marshall is a leading pro-life politician in the State of Virginia, and a consummate pro-life strategist. As a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,

• January 16, 2010 Surprised by Subsidiarity Dr. Jeff Mirus

  The argument I have developed in the preceding two entries may be summarized as follows: First, our concern for the poor and marginalized must be motivated by love for the whole person as a child of

• January 15, 2010 Catholic scholars who aren't Catholic Phil Lawler

  In an editorial eulogizing the late Mary Daly, the Boston Globe lets the cat out of the bag. Daly “came to describe herself as a ‘radical lesbian feminist’ and a

• January 12, 2010 The Importance of Community Dr. Jeff Mirus

  On reading the previous entry in this series (linked at bottom), one might argue that I have “reduced” concern for the poor to charity, which would be unfortunate on two

• January 11, 2010 The First Principle of Catholic Social Concern Dr. Jeff Mirus

  In attempting to figure out how the problem of poverty should be addressed in a healthy culture, the first thing we come up against is the impossibility of solving any social problem by reducing it

• January 04, 2010 Catholic Social Teaching: Buried in the Bunker? Dr. Jeff Mirus

  I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get the bunker mentality, and I’m tempted to dig myself into a deeper hole. I’m referring here to a reflexive desire to hide from those