Mary Eberstadt, writing in First Things, trumpets The Vindication of Humanae Vitae, while Gerald Naus, reverting to liberalism after a couple of years declaring “the Cafeteria is closed,” heaps scorn on Catholic teaching on sexuality. Humanae Vitae was the 1968 encyclical letter of Pope Paul VI upholding traditional Catholic teaching on sexuality (as stated in…

From the review in the New York Times: In Waugh’s book — and, I’m compelled to add, that fine old mini-series it was made into — religious commitments and social relations were part of a thickly detailed, complicated and ancient lived reality. The long experience of English Catholics as a religious minority, the subtle gradations…

Catholic bloggers and the Catholic League have been up in arms over remarks made by Paul Z. Myers, associate professor in the Division of Science and Math at the University of Minnesota Morris. He had threatened to engage in a public desecration of a Koran, a Catholic Eucharistic host, and, to show he was egalitarian,…

No doubts at all about its success in the witty columns of the Times.

Jesus hung around with other guys, for the most part. He went to where they worked and called them to follow him. Yes, he had friendships with women, and these stand out. But as one person has said, Jesus’ methodology was not to go start women’s Bible studies and Sunday Schools for children. We’ve reversed…

On our trip to Maine, we took a side-trip to visit the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, the sole remaining Shaker community (a 1974 film about the community, The Shakers, can be viewed online). See also MaineShakers.com. The tour was interesting, the exhibits tracing the history of the Shakers, and the guide well informed (and able…