There is apparently trouble at Ave Maria Law School. Here is a blog about it. Being that lawyers are involved, it also contains posts about Miers, etc. But what is going on at the law school is disheartening, beginning, it seems, with the Board of Governors’ removal of Professor Charles Rice from the Board. Unrelated,…

Caution on Turkey and the EU from the Curia: Speaking to the Italian daily La Repubblica, the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Paul Poupard, said a resolution addressing the lack of religious freedom and the discrimination against Christians in Turkey is urgent before a decision can be made about accepting that country…

From The American Conservative (which is Pat Buchanan’s mag, is it not?) an article on the Purest Neocon – Christopher Hitchens. Of interest – his views on religion. Which we all know, but anyway: As both the Hari and Didcock interviews make clear, Hitchens was able to overcome his past squeamishness about American military force…

You know, every time I hear about these bishops breaking into language-based working groups as the Synod, I have to wonder if they’re sitting around on folding chairs, staring dully at a heavy-set woman with dyed-blond hair in a burnt-orange pantsuit (’cause Halloween’s coming!), wielding butcher-block paper, markers,  and a pack of color-coded dot stickers,…

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