Sunday Sundries — Contested Faiths, Syncretic Possibilities, Morality and...
A quick roundup today because I am leaving town tomorrow and will be blogging irregularly this coming week. We will begin with an examination of a theme from my earlier post on Fractured Faiths — The...
View ArticleProfessor Condemns Homosexuality on Basis of “Natural Moral Law”
Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers discusses the case of a professor — teaching at a public university — who presented his Catholic views, disguised as philosophy, on homosexuality to his students. One...
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Polish Pontiffs and Politicians
Poland is a country of wonderful contrasts. On the one hand, you can buy (for $24) a new board game — “Around the World with Pope John Paul II” — that celebrates the peripatetic Pope’s travels and...
View ArticleCatholic Justices Serve Their Master Well
The Catholic boys club that is the United States Supreme Court really outdid themselves in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (April 4, 2011), a case in which Arizona citizens...
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The Sins of an Evolutionary Psychologist
In a recent essay on the cult of David Foster Wallace, Nathan Heller notes that DFW’s mature work deals with the crisis of contemporary pluralism: “how to think intelligently and truthfully about the...
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Exorcists & Creationists
Last night the Discovery Channel premiered “The Exorcist Files.” When initially announced, the show was touted as a partnership between Discovery and the Vatican: “The Vatican is an extraordinarily...
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Seeing Catholic: Design, Adaptation & Teleology
If I understand my Catholic friends and scholars correctly, God created the cosmos, earth, and life. This God sparked the original organism and designed an evolutionary process that has resulted in...
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