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Just heating up….again… Jeremy Lott and Patrick Hynes: Remember, Roe v Wade did not create the modern religious right. Former president Jimmy Carter did when he refused to rein in an Internal Revenue Service that had decided to go after the tax exemptions of private Christian schools that were not in compliance with civil rights…

Eve Tushnet has been waxing brilliantly and engagingly on matters of gay identity of late, and has so much to say that can give any of us food for thought: Some thoughts: First, it’s very clear to me that Catholic teaching is much more affirming of my worth as a person than I might be…

The pro-Israel media watchdog group CAMERA has issued a blistering critique of a recent article in the NCR(eporter).  The article, says CAMERA, is a whitewash of Hezbollah: In the Aug. 25 issue of National Catholic Reporter, a lengthy article by Margot Patterson discusses the prospects of disarming Hezbollah in the aftermath of the recent round…

GOP governor signs a bill: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law yesterday, Senate Bill 1441, a bill that would potentially remove state assistance from organizations which stand-by religious beliefs deemed discriminatory towards homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, and the like.  The bill is being assailed by groups who say that the bill violates their first amendment…

…I have three book reviews I want to write and post, plus (and this really should come first), a small project to complete for OSV, plus a photo I want to post of the Amazing Monkey Boy who has learned it is great fun to grasp and swing on table edges…. What were your toddlers’…

At FT, Robert Miller disagrees with Charlotte Allen, basically saying the FDA really had no choice. The decision as to whether Plan B ought to be approved for sale is a decision to be made in accordance with the law. The relevant statute is §505(d) of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which provides in…

Terry Mattingly’s latest column relates to the Georgetown and evangelical groups question – with some new info. Ministry leaders from off-campus have, in recent years, been required to sign a covenant written by mainline Protestants in the official Georgetown campus-ministry office. In one clause, they pledged to "maintain respect for the various religious traditions" on…

Teresa Benedetta has a full translationof the General Audience talk today…in which the Pope takes a stand on some issues of authorship. (I’m not interpreting this as a comment on priority – by "first Gospel," he means the first in the NT) Let us remember, finally, that the tradition of the ancient Church unanimously attributed…

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of briefly meeting up with two visitors- Daniel Arasa and Diego Contreras –  from Opus Dei’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce) who have been traveling the country, picking various people’s brains about the teaching of journalism, communications and so on. They’d been at OSV the day before,…

The proprieter of this interesting blog of the Secular Order Discalced Carmelites in Belfast (phew!) sends along a link to a kerfuffle related to Catholic schools in Northern Ireland – there’s been a suggestion to set aside one of the (what we would call) in-service days to study what a Catholic school is all about…and…
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