The Kerry Challenge
How does John Kerry's self-description as a "believing and practicing Catholic" square with his legislative record, especially his record of support for abortion-on-demand? Senior Fellow George Weigel discusses Kerry's misrepresentation of the teaching of the Catholic Church, and what it means for the credibility of the candidate, his party, and the Church.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2102/pub_detail.asp

Romance in the Information Age
Love and dating are increasingly high-tech affairs -- with online winking, pre-date résumés, and "compatibility matching systems." But is this new world of full-disclosure and Ph.D.-certified matchmaking good for the spontaneity of romance? Or the permanence of marriage? In the latest issue of EPPC's journal The New Atlantis, Fellow Christine Rosen explores the hopes and miseries of love in the information age.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/4/rosen.htm

Putting an Epic onto the Big Screen
It’s not Homer, of course, but Wolfgang Peterson’s romanticization of Homer has its own story to tell. Read Resident Scholar James Bowman's review of Troy:
http://www.jamesbowman.net/reviewDetail.asp?pubID=1517

EPPC Newsletter
The current edition of our quarterly newsletter includes an interview with new EPPC President Edward Whelan and an overview of our last few months of events and publications.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/issuesid.431/issues_detail.asp

No Ordinary People
"Pope John Paul II has not simply left an imprint on history. He is history, and where he goes, history moves with him and is changed because of his presence. How does this happen? Not simply because the Pope has a winsome personality or an acute mind -- although he certainly has both. No, his impact on history -- his singular capacity to be history, to embody the history of his times as only one other man, Winston Churchill, did during the last century -- is the result of his faith, his convictions, and his commitments: in a word, his impact on history is a result of his discipleship." Read the commencement address Senior Fellow George Weigel delivered this month at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio:
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2090/pub_detail.asp

Gender Selection in Babies?
Fellow Christine Rosen recently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel to discuss new technologies that allow parents to decide whether their unborn child will be a boy or a girl. Read the transcript here:
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2089/pub_detail.asp

Religion, Politics, and the 2004 Election
Twenty-five of the nation's top journalists will meet next week with three eminent scholars to discuss religion, politics, and the 2004 election, in Key West, Florida. This conference, hosted by EPPC's Faith Angle program, features John Green of the University of Akron, Alan Wolfe of Boston College, and Steven Simon of the RAND Corp.
http://www.eppc.org/conferences/eventID.83/conf_detail.asp

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