Br. Steve | March 31, 2010
Yasmin Mogahed: Are All Christians Militia Members? A Muslim Knows Better. A forward from the Huffington Post. I do not have anything to add except to say that the author is absolutely correct. Islam is held to a different standard than Christianity in the United States, a fact that belies our supposed openness and tolerance. As a [...]
Br. Steve | March 31, 2010
Obama’s Plan to allow offshore drilling violates our responsibility as stewards of creation and should be opposed.
Br. Steve | March 30, 2010
The Pope, the judge, the paedophile priest and The New York Times – Telegraph Blogs. A first hand account of what happened in the Fr. Murphy case, involving the Wisconsin school for deaf children, from Fr. Thomas Brundage, former Judicial Vicar of Milwaukee and the ecclesiastical judge for Fr. Murphy’s case. Contrary to what I [...]
Br. Steve | March 30, 2010
Dorothy Day: Unapologetic Radical, but no Marxist – Robert Ellsberg – God’s Politics Blog. I had almost forgotten about Glenn Beck until I came across this post on the God’s Politics Blog. Apparently Beck, who admittedly knows nothing about Dorothy Day or her life, thinks that Day was a Marxist radical. Ellsberg does a good [...]
Br. Steve | March 30, 2010
Scoundrel Time(s) | First Things – George Weigel I don’t normally agree with Weigel, but this article he posted yesterday at the First Things website makes the same basic point I was making yesterday. I don’t agree with absolutely everything the Weigel says, I think he overemphasizes some of Benedict’s actions, but his overall point [...]
Br. Steve | March 30, 2010
The London Independent’s Rome correspondent reported over the weekend that Pope Benedict is under pressure from senior church officials to call a special Synod of Bishops to deal with the abuse crisis. I don’t know how likely this is to happen, but I hope it does. There is still a need to deal with how [...]
Br. Steve | March 29, 2010
How Could It Happen? Tracing the Causes of Sexual Abuse by the Clergy An excellent article from James Martin, S.J. laying out the causes of the sexual abuse crisis. His article also lends some support to the basic contention of my last post, that as terrible as what happened was it was by and large [...]
Br. Steve | March 28, 2010
Frank Rich has an interesting piece on the massive over-reaction of the Right to last week’s heathcare bill. One of the interesting things that he notes is the fact that the prototype of the bill was legislation signed into law by Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts, a fact noted by that bastion [...]
