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Slavery Today
By
awelborn
It’s the Tablet’s lead article In 1789, the year of the French Revolution, William Wilberforce started advocating the abolition of slavery. Results were long in coming, but he persevered – perhaps endowed with Yorkshire stubbornness – until in 1807 the Act of the Abolition of the Slave Trade was passed. This, for the British, brought…
What…did they forget Sam Harris?
By
awelborn
Dorian Speed notes the authors included at her local Barnes and Noble "Easter is Coming" display. She concludes: Why don’t they just scrawl "SUCKAHS!" underneath the "Easter is Coming" banner and be done with it?
On the Cardinal
By
awelborn
This week, the story from LA has concerned apparent differences between what Cardinal Mahony told the people of the Archdiocese and what he told the Vatican about an abusing priest. (At least he told the truth to the Vatican, which was working on laicizing the priest – but why lie to the people? That’s odd.)…
Nope
By
awelborn
A statement from the USCCB: The document Statement Concerning Two Pamphlets Published by Professor Daniel Maguire was developed by the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It was approved by the Administrative Committee of the USCCB at its March 2007 meeting as a statement of the Committee and has…
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