Last week, Target very subtly and without comment included a little boy with Down Syndrome among its models in one of its weekly ads. The scene shows 5 happy kids happily playing in their Target-purchased clothes. It’s so...
Read MoreGiven all the recent attention to the death penalty here at our site (and other places around the web, of course!), and the recent extended lesson on the concept of “cooperation with evil” that John Berkman and...
Read MoreLast Sunday, on his visit to Germany, Pope Benedict XVI met with Catholics who are engaged in social work and social advocacy, or, as he described them, persons who “do dedicated work for the present and the future from a...
Read MoreI’ve just returned from participating in the second gathering of the formerly-Fordham-now-Catholic Conversation Project. This year’s gathering in Dover, Massachusetts, hosted about 15 pre-tenure Catholic scholars in...
Read MoreIn anticipation of this Friday’s opening of the final Harry Potter film, I’ve just re-watched the seventh film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. It reminded me, yet again, why I love this series and why I think it...
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