At FT, Robert Miller disagrees with Charlotte Allen, basically saying the FDA really had no choice. The decision as to whether Plan B ought to be approved for sale is a decision to be made in accordance with the law. The relevant statute is §505(d) of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which provides in…

Terry Mattingly’s latest column relates to the Georgetown and evangelical groups question – with some new info. Ministry leaders from off-campus have, in recent years, been required to sign a covenant written by mainline Protestants in the official Georgetown campus-ministry office. In one clause, they pledged to "maintain respect for the various religious traditions" on…

Teresa Benedetta has a full translationof the General Audience talk today…in which the Pope takes a stand on some issues of authorship. (I’m not interpreting this as a comment on priority – by "first Gospel," he means the first in the NT) Let us remember, finally, that the tradition of the ancient Church unanimously attributed…

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of briefly meeting up with two visitors- Daniel Arasa and Diego Contreras –  from Opus Dei’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce) who have been traveling the country, picking various people’s brains about the teaching of journalism, communications and so on. They’d been at OSV the day before,…

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