Over at the Faith in Public Life blog, recent entries (like this one on Rick Santorum and torture) manifest a new, interesting rhetorical strategy: to take the language of “pro-life” away from the abortion issue, and apply it...
Read MoreReflections for May 22, 2011 We are good at labels: conservative versus liberal, red state versus blue state, pro-life versus pro-choice. These labels are often reductive and lacking nuance, and even more often, such labels...
Read MoreLater today I get a on flight to the UK for one of those events that come around once in a lifetime. The McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Policy at Christ Church, Oxford is putting on a historic conference this...
Read MoreIn his May 6th Wall Street Journal essay, Mr. Mukasy, the former Attorney General, claims that the much of the information that led to the killing of bin Laden was the result of “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Consider how...
Read MoreFederal prosecutors have issued a subpoena to my very own Boston College, ordering the school to turn over the tapes of two interviews from two former soldiers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, one of whom is still...
Read MoreJohn Demjanjuk was found guilty this past Thursday of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder for serving as a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp. He is now 91 years old, and the alleged crimes (the case is under...
Read More. . . Or just skeptical of the justice of the criminal justice system? Peter Moskos’ new book In Defense of Flogging appears to be less about flogging and more about the failure of the contemporary prison system. My...
Read MoreIt is no real surprise that United States’ politics is polarized. (See the recent Pew Study). It is a bit surprising that people have started to reshape their religious beliefs to fit into these political extremes. As Robert...
Read MoreAppearing with Stephen Schneck on the O\’Reilly Factor, Vincent Miller pointed out to Bill O’Reilly that the “Catholic church speaks about distributive justice.” O’Reilly then said, “The...
Read MoreBarack Obama gave an interview to 60 Minutes this past Sunday to talk about the attack on Osama bin Laden. It made absolutely compelling television, and the president was particularly sterling. The most intriguing question, I...
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