November 25, 2011
by Fr. George W. Rutler
As in the month of June 1943 the Nazi racial policies would become more diabolic, climaxing with the installation of a third crematory in Birkenau by the end of the month, there was some irony in the contagion of race riots among some engaged in the war effort against the Axis: the so-called “Zoot Suit [...]
June 20, 2011
by Ronald J. Rychlak
All employees should be cautious about using their employers' property for personal purposes. This is doubly true for government employees, who are guardians of the public's property. They must be careful not to violate the public trust. As a state employee myself, I evaluate these issues by asking whether I could justify the private use [...]
May 19, 2011
by Anne Hendershott
While faithful Catholics concluded their celebration of the Year of the Priest only last spring, a coalition of dissident organizations like Call to Action, Voice of the Faithful, and the Women's Ordination Conference have issued a "universal call to ministry" to help build a "non-clerical Catholic Church in which the laity reclaims their baptismal priesthood." [...]
January 11, 2011
by Brian Saint-Paul
In today's Los Angeles Times, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer brings some sanity to coverage of both the shootings in Tuscon and the well-reported fish and bird deaths around the country: We live in a causal universe, so all effects do have causes, but before we turn to grand, overarching causal theories such as political rhetoric or [...]
January 10, 2011
by Zoe Romanowsky
A government study shows that fluoride levels in water and common dental hygiene products are too high. Two out of five adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness due to excessive fluoride, and in some cases teeth can become pitted. One study mentioned in the Los Angeles Times found that prolonged exposure to fluoride "can increase [...]
November 25, 2010
by Brian Saint-Paul
Things are going to be slow around InsideCatholic today, as the staff is celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. On behalf of the entire team, we wish you a blessed day, full of gratitude for the gifts God has bestowed on all of us. In case you're in a reading mood, here are a few interesting links... [...]
November 25, 2010
by Brian Saint-Paul
Things are going to be slow around InsideCatholic today, as the staff is celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. On behalf of the entire team, we wish you a blessed day, full of gratitude for the gifts God has bestowed on all of us. In case you're in a reading mood, here are a few interesting links... [...]
November 9, 2010
by Brian Saint-Paul
Mollie Ziegler at GetReligion fisked through some of the mainstream press accounts of the pope's homily at the Sagrada Familia, and noticed that none of them actually seemed to have… uh… listened to it. At least, that's what you'd conclude from their coverage. In a homily that is almost entirely about the theology and architecture [...]
August 16, 2010
by Brian Saint-Paul
Family & Life, an independent pro-life organization in Ireland, reports on the latest medical innovation involving the use of adult stem cells: a boy in Northern Ireland became the first child to undergo a successful trachea transplant. The 11-year-old underwent the operation which involved the removal of his trachea and its replacement with a donor [...]
June 12, 2010
by Tom O'Brien
I am sitting in front of my computer in Washington, D.C. The electricity is on, and lights shine overhead; outside, I hear planes, trains, automobiles. Down the street, not far from where I live, are the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. None of this would be remarkable except that the purveyors of politically [...]
May 4, 2010
by Stephen Baskerville
The debate on the family is becoming increasingly politicized. Social conservatives propose federal programs to promote marriage and fatherhood and to enlist churches. Liberals respond that government does not belong in the family but then advocate federal programs of their own. Yet the more polarized the issues become the less willing we are to look [...]
June 8, 2009
by Deal W. Hudson
June 1 was a lovely day in Northern Virginia when the staff of InsideCatholic gathered with friends for our annual Lazarus Golf Tournament at Bull Run Golf Club, nestled against the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Before playing, however, we hosted a roundtable discussion entitled "The Future of the Christian Vote: Is It in [...]
March 9, 2008
by Deal W. Hudson
Panic spread among the estimated 166,000 homeschoolers in California for a week, and outrage grew around the homeschooling community nationwide. On February 29, WorldNetDaily broke the story of a decision by a California Court of Appeals ordering two homeschooled children from the Los Angeles area to be enrolled in public school. Reporter Bob Unruh compared [...]
February 2, 2006
by Mark Stricherz
In June 2000, the Los Angeles Times released a poll that found Americans “evenly split” regarding Roe v. Wade, one of the two 1973 Supreme Court rulings that created a constitutional right to abortion. Forty-three percent of respondents indicated that they approved of the decision, while 42 percent disapproved. At the time, the Times’s poll [...]
June 20, 2005
by Patrick J. Reilly
The intense battle to prevent Terri Schiavo's husband from removing her feeding tube was horrible enough. To think that some American Catholic universities — and their ethics, theology, law, and medical professors — bear some responsibility for Schiavo's slow death is almost too much to imagine. Yet prior to Schiavo's death, professors from top Catholic [...]