The news keeps getting in the way of a blogpost I have been meaning to write in response to my colleague Father Jim Martin rsquo s request for civility in the blogosphere Unfortunately I can rsquo t find his original posting in the archives Father we love you to death but have to give you a n

Sometimes you can rsquo t win for losing Or lose for winning The progressive Catholic advocacy group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good CACG long criticized by conservative Catholics for being insufficiently pro-life is now the object of an attack from its other flank The group Cathol

Everything about the murder of Dr George Tiller in Wichita yesterday is tragic First Dr Tiller had a family and friends who have lost their husband father brother and neighbor Because the murder happened in his church Tiller rsquo s fellow church-goers will doubtlessly be traumatized in a un

In his book The Future of Liberalism Alan Wolfe posits that in addition to philosophic and procedural liberalism there is such a thing as a liberal temperament an openness to debate an inquisitiveness and curiosity about the world a horror of bigotry and an optimistic appraisal of human possibil

I certainly had not planned on spending my evening nbsp with Miguel Diaz rsquo s book On Being Human U S Hispanic and Rahnerian Perspectives But then word came that he was about to be named the U S ambassador to the Vatican and so I had to turn off Law amp Order and read this exercise in

nbsp It is so kind of George Will to explain Judge Sotomayor rsquo s beliefs to the rest of us And like conventional liberals she embraces identity politics including the idea of categorical representation A person is what his or her race ethnicity gender or sexual preference is and membe

It took just about an hour for Americans United for Life a pro-life lobbying outfit to denounce the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor rsquo s judicial philosophy undermines common ground the group said in a press release She is a radical pick that

Catholic insiders are still trying to figure out the answer to two different questions With no official White House liaison to the Catholic Church do the President rsquo s unofficial liaisons from the Vice-President to the Faith-Based Office do they have influence within the administration And

Alan Wolfe's 'The Future of Liberalism,' reviewed

Mr Deal Hudson has taken exception to my blog post yesterday which focused on an article of his that questioned why Israel insists on being designated as a Jewish state He now writes Winters is obviously unaware that I have and do unequivocally support a Jewish state Alas Mr Hudson is argu