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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Catholic responses to forced insurance
Fr. Robert Barron takes Sun-Times’s Neil Steinberg and Chi Trib op-ed writer Sara Paretsky to task in his amazing relaxed and easy-going manner in this video on “the HHS contraception mandate.” The bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend in this “Catholic Resistance Must be the Response to the Unjust HHS Edict to Violate Conscience”: “We have [...]
Puritans, Keats, Paul Ryan, and sheer nonsense
PURITANS AND ROMANTICS: Religion was reduced by the Puritans “to mere morality,” the Puritan imagination was “thoroughly moralized,” said H.B. Parkes and H.W. Schneider respectively, both of them quoted by Yvor Winters in his 1930 book Maule’s Curse. The “highly stimulated” Puritan, said Winters, was “no longer guided by the flexible and sensitive ethical scholarship of the Roman tradition.” [...]
Money and other matters GOP voters have to consider
Quite a nice statement of where we stand in re: GOP nomination: The conundrum: We don’t dismiss outright the notion that character is important. But the value of the current race is the chance it gives the GOP to craft the substance of its message. It’s an effort in which all four are making important contributions [...]
Newt more than a media-basher
Read this about Newt as more than what’s advertised by Romney-ites: Tonight’s debate in Florida may be, as advertised, crucial to the outcome of the race there. But whether Speaker Gingrich knocks this one out of the park or he doesn’t, one fact stands clear. He’s survived this long against extraordinary odds and attained the [...]
Catholics under siege
Catholics and other Americans united in defense of religious liberty should hear what NY Archbishop Dolan has to say about the government forcing church institutions to provide insurance to cover birth control and abortion-inducing drugs. Here is Abp. Dolan on the subject: “From a human point of view, we may be tempted to surrender, when [...]
AmSpect assumes
American Spectator fellow on the presidential speech: Aside from the fact that the Democrats didn’t seem to enjoy being there any more than the Republicans, the address begged a number of different questions. He lost me right there. Prompted or suggested questions. I’m cranky as it is when the Obfuscator-in-Chief flaps his lips, then comes [...]
Brian Williams bit hand that feeds him
An entertainer like Brian Williams should know better than ban applause. He’d be nothin’ but a houn’ dog without it, baying at the moonglow.
Sun-Times make non-endorse decision in nick of time
Sun-Times endorsements no more: With this in mind, the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board will approach election coverage in a new way. We will provide clear and accurate information about who the candidates are and where they stand on the issues most important to our city, our state and our country. We will post candidate questionnaires [...]
