Tells Peggy Noonan what happened “I walked in and he just waved to me. It was in the Vatican, in a big room; I think it was the library. There were a lot of chambers that went in different places–a room off a room off a room, you know. “He smiled and waved. There were…

In the NYObserver, Terry Golway looks at his child’s history textbook Imagine, for example, explaining the Berlin Wall to a bunch of 10-year-olds without mentioning the Soviet Union, the United States or the word “oppression.” Well, the non-judgmental authors of Exploring Our Land have managed that trick. They write that in 1945, “a group of…

At HMS Blog(in several posts), disturbing notes on “selective reduction” in Catholic hospitals, expanding on a piece that appeared originally in OSV. Isada also co-authored a paper on selective abortions in multiple pregnancies. Additionally, he was party to a lawsuit with Planned Parenthood of Alaska in 1997 against the state of Alaska when a partial…

I’d read an article about this before, but here’s a new one, especially for those under the impression that the Amish don’t travel unless by horse and buggy: (It’s a really nice article – well worth your time) A Piece of Paradise: Friends and relatives greet the new arrivals with hugs and shrieks of delight.…

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