Joe Carter has written an interesting piece on the Acton Institute Power Blog.
It is interesting because it focuses on the fallibility of the financial community.
Joe Carter has written an interesting piece on the Acton Institute Power Blog.
It is interesting because it focuses on the fallibility of the financial community.
Adil Shamoo, in a Baltimore Sun editorial, sees Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress as an indication that what Netanyahu really wants is war with Iran.
Why is there so much resistance to change? Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig examines conservatism and the forces that drive conservatives to many of their positions on various issues.
Commonweal magazine has produced an excellent series of articles discussing contraception from three different points of view. I would like to comment on the first article in this blog post and perhaps explore the other two articles in a future blog post.
I want to continue exploring the fine discussion on contraception contained in a Commonweal series of articles.
I would just like to make a couple of comments on the second article, written by Marian Crowe.
Sara Love in a Baltimore Sun piece makes the point that it is, in fact, legal for religious schools to discriminate based on their religious beliefs. She cites the expulsion of a gay student and a girl who had said that she might be a lesbian. Additionally, a teacher was fired for marrying her partner, a woman.
I came across a recent review of a Pope Francis biography published in November. I was struck by a few of the comments.
Peter Smith reviewed The Great Reformer by Austen Ivereigh. According to Smith, the biography is generally sympathetic to the work of Pope Francis, but Smith makes some somewhat surprising remarks.
Ross Douthat has written an outstanding piece about Pope Francis in The Atlantic. It provides a worthwhile read into an understanding of the forces that have shaped our current pope.
I need to say a few words about the events that have unfolded in Baltimore these past few weeks. To start, I want to say something about the riots themselves. I started working in the Baltimore City Public Schools right around the time of the 1968 riots. I spent more than 30 years working in the city, and a couple of things stand out to me. The most disturbing fact is that more than 40 years later, little has changed. Poverty, drugs, unemployment and violence continue to be the order of the day.
Matthew James Christoff has highlighted a crisis of faith for men within the Catholic Church.
America magazine explores in some detail the controversial remarks made by Pope Francis to President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine in a recent audience. Did Francis say that Abbas was an angel of peace, or did he say "may you be an angel of peace"?
Gerard O'Connell makes the case that he actually said, "You are a bit of an angel of peace."
Ian Bremmer has developed a set of three foreign policy options that Americans need to choose from to develop a coherent foreign policy. The three are the indispensable, the Moneyball, and the independent approach.
NCR Today: We all complement each other in various ways. Why couldn't God have ordained love to flow in a different direction?
I would like to comment on a few unrelated op-eds, first on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal then on religious freedom.
The tragic shootings in Charleston, S.C., have created momentum for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol there.
The 2015 session of the U.S. Supreme Court produced a number of significant decisions.
We will of necessity focus on arguably the two most significant cases, especially in regard to the hierarchy of the Catholic church. Those decisions are ,of course, the decision authorizing same-sex marriage throughout the country and the decision regarding the Affordable Care Act.
Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon, is now second in the polls for the Republican nomination for president.
Already, forces are arrayed against the nuclear agreement reached in Vienna, even though the ink has barely dried on the 100-page document. The lead antagonist is of course Israel, led by its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Along with Israel, the second most significant group in opposition consists of members of the United States Congress.
There have been a number of recent firings of gay or lesbian employees within the Catholic church in the United States. Principals, teachers and a variety of parish ministers are among those who have been fired. Gay priests and women religious have been dismissed from significant positions of influence. Fr. Warren Hall, a gay priest and chaplain at Seton Hall University, was removed from his position by the archbishop of Newark, N.J.
Will the church learn over time to recognize and accept the values of capitalism?