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The President’s Director of the Office of management and Budget defends the proposal to reduce the tax deduction on on charitable contributions with the following: Third, there’s a question of fairness. Non-profits play a critical role in our society (indeed, I have worked at several of them in the past). But let’s look at how [...]
After quoting from John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae, Carl Olson at the Ignatius Press Blog lays out the true Catholic teaching about the primacy of conscience, and its limits, in Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: “I am a pro-adultery Catholic because my Catholic faith tells me I can be.”: That’s heavy stuff. And [...]
This site has been around a few months now, and today’s entry is perhaps my favorite: You’ll learn something by visiting daily, plus its worth at least a smile every day, plus the occasional laugh out loud moment. LOLSaints | Saints with a Smile.
As government becomes ever more intrusive, it inevitably discovers that it can accept no rivals for the people. Any entity that announces universal truths and morality will just get in the way: via Bolivian president rejects criticism by bishops, calls for founding of ‘new church’. President Evo Morales of Bolivia said last Thursday in Brazil [...]
I am not in the habit of looking for helpful economic commentary from American Catholic bishops, but this is worthy of note. The Bishop of Brooklyn, in his weekly column, discusses the current economic situation, and shows more understanding than most of our political or journalistic class: Fighting Poverty to Build Peace. At the same [...]
At the risk of sounding like too much of a grouch, I nevertheless want to express my disappointment at most of the cards my family received these past few weeks. Very few mentioned Christmas at all, much less had any explicit religious content. This is especially unsettling because most of the people who sent us [...]
“The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.” G. K. Chesterton, “On Christmas”, Generally Speaking
This post is written from an expressly Roman Catholic perspective, with an intended audience of other Roman Catholics. If you are not Catholic, you are more than welcome to read it, but please do not be surprised that it makes assumptions and appeals to authority that have no meaning for you. My goal in this [...]
OK, so the title is a bit much, but it’s not completely unwarranted, as I’ll set forth below. Joss Whedon — the creator of , among other things, both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel — is an atheist, but he is also too good of a writer to allow his personal beliefs overly infect [...]
