On the Culture

November 18, 2009 5:40 PM Newman’s Final Argument By Dr. Jeff Mirus

At the risk of boring those who never intend to read the book, I should add one final point concerning The Meaning of Newman’s Grammar of Assent. It is an important point because, once Newman has established how it is that a human person

November 18, 2009 3:31 PM Archbishop Dolan goes too far By Dr. Jeff Mirus

In another of its highly meaningful news stories, Zenit reported yesterday that Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York was well-pleased with the Yankees’ victory in the World Series. He ought to have been, as he won a case of

On The News

November 19, 2009 2:13 PM the ideal escape By Phil Lawler

Over on The Catholic Thing, Father Jim Schall announces: Nine months of the Obama administration have prompted me to flee, not to New Zealand or Argentina, but rather to Blandings Castle. A very sensible way to beat a strategic retreat

November 19, 2009 11:47 AM Europe's elite choose a new president By Phil Lawler

European leaders are meeting today to select a new president for the European Union. They will also choose an EU foreign minister. With the final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the 27 member-states of the EU are now formed into a

In Depth Analysis

November 20, 2009 Spiritual Reading: The USCCB on Marriage By Dr. Jeff Mirus

I’ll admit that the major documents issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have seldom impressed me. Too often they’ve read like they were drafted by a committee striving for the lowest common denominator. Sometimes this has vitiated not only their organization and readability but their moral clarity. If you share my opinion, you might think you’d be justified in ignoring the USCCB’s new pastoral letter, Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan. But

Off the Record

• 11/20/09 help is on the way
• 11/20/09 it'll be ready for you monday
• 11/19/09 a regrettably unthreatening threat
• 11/19/09 connection/no connection
• 11/19/09 see what you get for $1.8 million?
• 11/18/09 rondeau
• 11/16/09 a man of the cloth
• 11/16/09 ecclesia supplet
• 11/16/09 tell it to the judge
• 11/13/09 the limits of laissez faire