(Hat tip: Catholics in the Public Square ) From the man who once said he'd change his effusive views on Obama if the Pope called him to admonish him on the subject: Obama backer Pepperdine Professor Douglas Kmiec has described Pope Benedict's comments to Nancy Pelosi as "intrusive" because they put ...

There are two churches on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. - St. Peter’s on the House side, St. Joseph’s on the Senate side.  In their tabernacles, the real presence of Christ surrounds the Capitol.  Some Catholic Congressmen choose to acknowledge his presence both before the tabernacl...

In reading the comments to my recent post, “If God does not exist, then everything is permitted?” I felt that many of the questions I was being asked were addressed in the very piece the commenters has just finished reading. I love getting comments, so in defense of these commenters the ...

On Tuesday, October 9, 2007, I published a post on this blog, entitled, Barack Obama Promotes Abortion, Slams Abstinence in Iowa Speech , one paragraph of which was excerpted from LifeNews.Com. This was followed by a series of facts about Barack Obama's voting record and my evaluation of his voting ...

In the latest volume of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, host Ken Myers talks with J. Daryl Charles, author of Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things (Eerdmans, 2008). Charles is associate professor of Christian Studies at Union University, and spent the 2007-2008 year as William E. ...

The latest issue of Religion & Liberty contains an essay I wrote for Acton about whether the relationship between social conservatives and libertarians can be saved. A student at my university (Houston Baptist University) read the essay and formulated a number of thoughts on his own. I was so af...

There is only one week left until the 40th anniversary of the great papal reaffirmation of the teaching of Christ on the regulation of human birth--the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Given the imminence of this anniversary, last week I republished the first half of Msgr. Vincent Foy's most recent article...

July 11, 2008 - Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot With the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's signing of Humanae Vitae exactly two weeks from today, I am re-posting the first part of "Humanae Vitae and Canada: Forty Years After," a recent article by Msgr. Vincent Foy, the foremost voice in Canada defe...

Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand and use currency. The result? The monkeys used their newfound currency to buy sex: Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its fungibility, the fact that it can be used to buy not...

(Hat tip: Fumare ) Professor Hadley Arkes writes at The Catholic Thing on the "madness" of Prof. Doug Kmiec's Obama love: Is it a certain madness, a certain distraction of mind, induced by the sudden onset of summer heat? The polls in early June find Barack Obama notably behind among Evangelicals an...