by Sheila Liaugminas
Policies of the federal government under the Obama administration have ignited a blaze of concerns about fundamental religious liberties in America.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the US bishops conference, wrote a letter to the president recently. Read more…
A report recently issued by the National Religious Broadcasters has found that Facebook, Apple iTunes, and other new media platforms censor Christian viewpoints, particularly about homosexuality. Read more…
by Marcia Segelstein
In the not too distant past, traditionalists theorized that when it came to raising children, the answer was to retreat from the world. Use private or parochial schools. Or even better, homeschool. Raise up a generation of kids who would change the world by trying to raise them outside the world.
To some degree, I concur. Homeschooling and using Christian and other private schools are great options for those who have the time and resources. Read more…
The 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth shows that adults who grew up in intact families and currently attended weekly religious services are least likely to “ever assault someone.”
This article comes from the Marriage and Religion Research Institute. Read more…
September 27th, 2011
Betsy
by Anthony Esolen
September 27, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/09/3766
Slandering their fathers while energetically progressing “somewhere,” the progressive is always in a position of impiety.
I have been puzzling over the term “progressive.” Read more…
September 16th, 2011
Betsy
Take note of the parts in blue at the bottom.
by Maggie Gallagher
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, was a good day for marriage.
North Carolina legislators voted to send a marriage amendment to the people of that state in 2012.
And in New York, the first clear Democratic casualty of gay marriage emerged: David Weprin. Read more…
by Michael Cook
In a race to the bottom of ethics, an American philosopher may have got there first.
“The religious fundamentalists are correct: without God, there is no morality. But they are incorrect, I still believe, about there being a God. Hence, I believe, there is no morality.” Read more…
Cato Institute scholar Doug Bandow has a column on the rise of religious persecution around the world. Basing his column on a report by the Pew Forum on Religion, Bandow notes that
According to Pew’s new study, “more than 2.2 billion people — about a third of the world’s population– live in countries where government restrictions or social hostilities involving religion are increasing. About 1% live in countries where government restrictions or social hostilities are decreasing.”
In many cases these restrictions are not minor. Explained Pew: “The number of countries in which governments used at least some measure of force against religious groups or individuals rose from 91 (46%) in the period ending in mid-2008 to 101 (51%) in the period ending in mid-2009. This violence was wide-ranging, including individuals being killed, physically abused, imprisoned, detained or displaced from their homes, as well as damage to or destruction of personal or religious properties.”… Read more…
by Robert Knight
We’ve got a word for people who hate Christmas. The Grinch.
What should we call people who hate America’s Judeo-Christian heritage, even to the point of barring clergy at a ceremony at the site of a major tragedy? Read more…
by Helen Alvaré
August 26, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/08/3800
Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of our communities; we must protect their conscience rights against legal coercion. Read more…
By Francis J. Beckwith
With the increasing likelihood that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for President, it is important for Catholics and other Christians to reflect on some concerns raised by Damon Linker in a 2007 New Republic article. Linker argues that Mormon theology does not have important resources that traditional Christians have at their disposal, such as natural-law theory. Read more…
by Dennis Prager
The Decalogue is as relevant today as it was 3,000 years ago.
There is only one solution to the world’s problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.
It is 3,000 years old. Read more…
From PublicDiscourse.com.
These quotes by Chesterton are the highlights of this article:
The English journalist and cultural critic G.K. Chesterton noted in the early twentieth century that the general disposition of modern men has been to “say something more like this: ‘We hold these truths to be probable enough for pragmatists; that all things looking like men were evolved somehow, being endowed by heredity and environment with no equal rights, but very unequal wrongs,’ and so on.” Read more…
A couple of months ago, Ari had posted about a San Francisco ballot initiative that would have banned male circumcision in that city.
Now, a Superior Court judge has ruled that the measure be removed from the ballot, saying that the state, not cities, has the right to regulate medical procedures. She also found that ban would violate the free exercise of religion: Read more…
by Denyse O’Leary
We’ve been hearing a lot of from “new atheists” lately about the negative things religion does to the mind. Recently, some journals have produced scientific evidence. Or have they? Read more…
a speech by Don Feder to the Moscow Demographic Summit, June 29, 2011
Imagine that you’re walking in the forest. There’s a layer of fresh snow on the ground. Suddenly you realize that you’re lost. You’re cold. You’re tired. You’re hungry. If that weren’t enough, there are wolves howling in the distance. This is beginning to sound like a Russian novel. Read more…
by Jennifer Roback Morse
Part 1 of 2
Dr. Morse gave this speech April 23, 2011, at Hong Kong Baptist University, at a conference of Western and Chinese scholars, entitled “The Family and Sexual Ethics: Christian Foundations and Public Values.” China is experiencing numerous problems due to family breakdown, including the one child policy, high divorce rates, and an imbalanced sex ratio. This conference was convened because many in China, even in the Academy of Science and in government, are interested in what Christianity has to say about marriage, family, sexuality and society. The conference papers will be translated into Chinese and published in book form.
Read more…
Categories: Catholic Church, Children, Economics, Jennifer Roback Morse, love, Marriage, Newsletter articles, Religion Tags: Children, Economics, family, Jennifer Roback Morse, Marriage, Religion
by William West
No, far from it, an Oxford professor insists.
While “new atheists” Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have been grabbing headlines with their bold claims that modern science has killed off God, an Oxford professor has been quietly chipping away at the ground they stand on. John C Lennox, Professor of Mathematics and Fellow in the Philosophy of Science at Oxford’s Green Templeton College, has been popping up at debates around the globe to take issue with the most prominent new atheists. Read more…
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