Road to Antioch

This must be a real trend, of which many of us have met examples. And it is indeed significant of the unresolved contradictions of US Protestantism.

Meeting people

John Allen has been filing stories from the Rimini Meeting, here and here. Read more about the Hegazy case.

Fractured

One could argue that, historically, the major factor that motivated the existence of Belgium as a bi-national state was shared Catholicism. Apparently, the ideology of the multicultural welfare state will not do it...

Time for change

Victor Davis Hanson on school reform. On the same topic, here is another proposal.

Well said

Another classic Spengler column:

(he) does not love Reason; he merely hates Christianity.

Open heaven

Sandro Magister tells the story of the 800 martyrs of Otranto.

Contingencies

This piece by Prof. Kenneth Miller at the time of the Intelligent Design controversy two years ago was very much on target.

As did the apostles

The Economist has a good obituary of Cardinal Lustiger.

Escape from fatherhood

Arthur Miller's secret son.

Kerouac at 50

The poignant chronicle of human restlessness, On the Road, reaches the half century mark.