Showing posts with label Religious freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religious freedom. Show all posts
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Why not a Catholic Party?

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Shortly before the election, a friend sent me a copy of a message her parish received from its pastor. In the introductory paragraphs, the...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

In the wake of today's Supreme Court decision...

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Thomas More, and all of us

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Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons is one of the 20th century's great dramas, but if you've only seen the movie -- splendid as...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Religious freedom? Oh, never mind.

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The State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights doesn't include the usual sections on religious freedom this year. Just ref...
Friday, June 08, 2012

Pelosi: Bishops don't speak for Church

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The increasingly indescribable Nancy Pelosi has now informed us that in suing the Federal Government over the HHS/ObamaCare insurance manda...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

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A New Mexico court has ruled that a photography business owned by Christians may not legally refuse to photograph a gay couple's "...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

Words for that Sunday -- and this one

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Seventy-two years ago, at the same milestone in the liturgical year at which we currently find ourselves, Winston Churchill made his first r...
Saturday, June 02, 2012

Something to do this weekend

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See it.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Bishop Jenky hits the mark

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I had never heard of Bishop Daniel Jenky before, but listen to this snippet of the stirring words he recently spoke to a group of Catholic l...
Monday, December 05, 2011

You can always get them back

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How perennial sin is! The more history I read, the more it seems that there's hardly any evil in our modern world that the Church hasn...
Monday, October 03, 2011

The other First Amendment

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Now that we've been treated to the news that a Tennessee school district (Tennessee, for cryin' out loud!) has cautioned public-sch...
Monday, September 26, 2011

The Culture of Death gives the envelope another nudge

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It's good to see the USCCB pushing back against the efforts of the Obama administration to force Catholic entities to pay for contracept...
Monday, September 06, 2010

Here we go again -- maybe

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I've been reading A Popular History of the Catholic Church, by Philip Hughes. It's from 1949, when Catholics were still proud (and p...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Progressivism and the Catholic Church

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Well, that's a subject line that would merit book-length treatment. But today, for now, just this: Why is it that several generations ...