The American pope: What does the election of Pope Leo XIV mean?

The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...

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Chosen Childlessness Revisited

Vincent J. Schodolski, national correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, deals with the intentional childlessness issue in "Pitter-patter of Little Feet Isn't for Them: Not Having Kids Sounds Great to Many Couples," a front-page story in Sunday's editi ...

November 28, 2005

Fair is Fair? Where the Logic of Civil Unions or Same-Sex Marriage Must Lead

Carol Sarler wants to enter into a civil union with her adult daughter. Nothing incestuous or lesbian, mind you. She just wants the tax savings and other benefits that come with the civil unions. Writing in today's edition of The Times [London], Sarl ...

November 28, 2005

The World’s Top Public Intellectual?

Christopher Orlet writes: A popularity contest for public intellectuals seems about as silly as a beauty contest for dogs. Still both are done. The latest -- and as far as I know the only -- was conducted by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy. ...

November 28, 2005

President Bush in China — Brave Support for Religious Liberty

Before the week ends, I want to draw attention to what many (but not all) in the mainstream media have missed -- President George W. Bush's brave and strategic support for religious liberty during his recent visit to Asia. The President's first publ ...

November 25, 2005

PETA Wants You to Say ‘No Thanks’ to Turkey

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA], always out on the radical fringe, is busy with its annual crusade against the eating of Thanksgiving turkeys. It's now offering "The Top Ten Reasons Not to Eat Turkey" on its web site. I won't bu ...

November 23, 2005

Revisiting the All Saints Case

The New York Times editorializes on the Internal Revenue Service's investigation of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, concluding that "it would seem to be hard to justify picking on a church that has a long record of opposition to ...

November 22, 2005

What Funeral Music Says About Us

Funeral music can be beautiful, declaring the Gospel and the majesty of God. Or, it can be maudlin, superficial, banal -- and even heretical. The choice says much about us, and much about our faith. In an increasingly secular world, the abandonmen ...

November 21, 2005

No One Needs French Theory — Baudrillard Speaks

Jean Baudrillard, one of France's most prominent thinkers, is famous for his theory that reality is constructed out of simulation and simulacrum -- signs and images. In a media driven age, these signs and images replace the real and appear as the do ...

November 21, 2005

A New Experience — I Agree with Michael Kinsley

Michael Kinsley, a prolific liberal thinker now associated with The Los Angeles Times, is a writer with whom I rarely agree. He's smart and articulate (he was the founding editor of Slate magazine), but he can also be infuriating. So, when I saw his ...

November 18, 2005

A Christian Vision of Beauty, Part Three

The Christian vision of beauty not only tells us why the world is beautiful--but not quite. Secondly, the Christian worldview explains why the face of a child with Down's syndrome is more beautiful than the cover girl in the fashion magazine. The uni ...

November 18, 2005