Palm Sunday

It’s a few days before the Passover—the beginning of the final, climactic week of Jesus’ life and ministry. He is ready to enter Jerusalem, and he sends two disciples ahead to Bethphage, about halfway between Bethany and Jerusalem. He tells them you’ll find an ass with her colt. “Bring them. If anyone stops you and…

A Bishop and the V-Monologues

Catholic Bishop John D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend has issued a fierce denunciation of Eve Ensler’s play, “The Vagina Monologues,” and the decision of the University of Notre Dame, located within his diocese, to have a reading of it, followed by a discussion. Father Jenkins has informed me that, while he thinks that this play…

“Why Shariah?”

Noah Feldman on Islamic law at the New York Times. Via Joel. He begins with this helpful context for the recent remarks by the Archbishop of Canterbury: Last month, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, gave a nuanced, scholarly lecture in London about whether the British legal system should allow non-Christian courts to decide certain…