Dom Bettinelli has a post about a recent letter sent by the USCCB’s office of Child and Youth Protection basically threatening issuance of some sort of stamp of disapproval (well, non-compliance) to dioceses which let parents opt out of school-based "safe environment" training unless the parents sign letters stating that they were offered the training…

In the Spectator, Patrick O’Hannigan, The Paragraph Farmer, writes a piece about Roberts’ JFK Moment and Rob Vischer’s questions about it at Mirror of Justice. Got it? The moment: Rob Vischer at Mirror of Justice uses a remark by Supreme Court nominee and practicing Catholic John Roberts to pose a not-entirely-rhetorical question. The remark that…

Byron York on Roberts, Day Two: With that, some of Roberts’s supporters began to wince; one conservative observer said shortly afterward that he knew the nominee’s words would cause unhappiness among the president’s pro-life base, who would certainly want to know why Roberts had been quite so respectful of the status of Roe as "settled…

I had one, late last night. Reading a scholarly article on the figure of "Mary" in Gnostic writings, the author made the most blindingly obvious point. Who sez this "Mary" is Mary Magdalene, anyway? And he’s right. In the gnostic writings, most of the time this "Mary" is simply "Mary." There are a couple of…

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