Law
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RJN: More on Harper
We’ve been having this little back and forth on whether Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, is…
George: Reply to Garnett
Mirror of Justice , a website for Catholic law professors, has been the forum for some exceptionally…
RJN: The Pope and His Cultured Advisers
You recall those awful years of John Paul II’s authoritarian and repressive pontificate when the ailing pontiff,…
RJN: 7.10.06 Philip Rieff has died at age 83…
Philip Rieff has died at age 83, in Philadelphia. We never met, but he would write from…
JB: 6.20.06 Cynthia Gorney takes to…
Cynthia Gorney takes to the pages of the New Yorker to report on abortion in South Dakota.…
RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…
Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…
SB: 6.02.06 The Rev. George Coyne…
The Rev. George Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, has a penchant for theologically risqué statements.…
The Churches of Earthly Power
Michael Burleigh’s study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than…
Principled Immigration
Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…
Briefly Noted 84
A Short History of Thomism. by Romanus Cessario. Catholic University, 106 pages, $19.95. There are Thomists, and…
JB: 5.09.06 Jonah Goldberg notes…
Jonah Goldberg notes this front-page Washington Post story about the history of American immigration¯essentially claiming that debates…
RJN: 4.13.06 In Rome, the station church…
In Rome, the station church today is St. John Lateran, the parish church of the Bishop of…
The Truth About Religious Freedom
Just now, as Islamic nations wrestle both with new theoretical ideas and new public policies concerning religious…
MN: 2.23.06 The Huge Event of the Week…
The Huge Event of the Week, February, 20-25 An ominously huge event overshadows reality this week, and…
RJN 1.26.06 And so, nine…
And so, nine months into the pontificate, Benedict XVI has issued his first encyclical. (It is dated…
