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Accountable to God
Taste -- Houses of Worship
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
Posted: Tuesday, August 20, 2002
"When it's good, it's very, very good. When it's bad, it's better." So runs the slogan of the Vice Fund, a new investment group that will begin buying stocks next week, with portfolios in alcohol, tobacco, gun makers and casinos. Fund manager Dan Ahrens told Investor's Business Daily: "There's nothing wrong with [socially conscious] investing" if it "helps you sleep at night." But he believes investing should be about making money, not salving one's conscience.   [Read More]
The Activist Trap
As Election Day draws near, Benedict's warning to his flock is timely and relevant.
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2006
Those who believe most fervently in the socially transformative power of personal responsibility and personal conversion and in the existence of universal moral laws cannot expect to change the world through external activity and political victories alone. Their hope must lie in something deeper and more enduring, in the transcendent truths that can only be discovered in silence, solitude, and contemplation.  [Read More]
Addicted to Love
By James Bowman
Posted: Thursday, May 1, 1997
Addicted to Love, written by Robert Gordon and directed by Griffin Dunne has its moments of humor but it never really seems to understand the seriousness of the issue it is playing with. This is the issue of revenge.  [Read More]
Adding Spice to the American Mix
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008
For the life of the Catholic Church in America, what the Pope says in his homilies in Washington and New York, and in his meetings with Catholic bishops, educators, priests, Religious, seminarians and young people will likely have more of an immediate impact than what he says from the green marble rostrum of the General Assembly. And what the Catholic Church in America most needs to hear from Benedict XVI is a word of encouragement.  [Read More]
Advice for McCain in Choice of Running Mate?
Play It Safe.
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2008
Help win a state or a key voter group. Bring youth, experience or gravitas. Balance the ticket based on gender, race, region or ideology. These are some of the traditional considerations in the vice presidential selection process. Let me suggest one more consideration for Sen. John McCain: Play it safe.  [Read More]
The Affair of the Necklace
By James Bowman
Posted: Friday, December 7, 2001
The Affair of the Necklace is a lamentable historical epic starring Hilary Swank as winsome Jeanne de la Motte Valois, a Bourbon bon-bon of the former royal house of Valois whose family has been dispossessed and her father killed because he “spoke out against poverty and tyranny.” That he was also a pretender to the throne does not appear to her to be a relevant datum.   [Read More]
An Affair to Remember
Introductory Remarks
By James Bowman
Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Character is of course what keeps Alec and Laura from consummating their passion, and I think it is not possible to understand the film without understanding that this is meant to be a good thing. But their self-denial is part of a much wider complex of social obligations that includes everything from their respective marriage vows to the manners required by their brief encounter with Dolly.  [Read More]
Affairs to Forget
How Hollywood lost its romantic groove.
By James Bowman
Posted: Friday, February 9, 2007
It is the nearness of human happiness to irrevocable loss and tragedy that makes the achievement of love, when it comes, so exciting. It is the absence, in our hook-up culture, of the sense that anything very much is at stake in love that makes our romantic comedies so feeble.  [Read More]
Affliction
By James Bowman
Posted: Tuesday, December 1, 1998
Affliction, based on a novel by Russell Banks, is written and directed by Paul Schrader, and, like so many other Hollywood products these days, it asks us to believe that traditional ideas of masculinity are psychically and socially destructive. Though it is well-written, well-acted and well-photographed, the movie really has nothing else to say to us apart from that.  [Read More]
Afraid of Change? More Myths of 1968
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, June 7, 2006
In a recent editorial on condoms and AIDS, the London-based Tablet, an influential weekly in the Catholic Anglosphere, argued that "in 1968, the most persuasive reason advanced in favor of retaining the ban on artificial birth control was that to lift it would suggest that the Church could change its mind, and hence undermine its teaching authority." That is a distortion of history and the editors of the Tablet -- which played a large role in the Humanae Vitae controversy -- should know it.  [Read More]
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Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

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Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.


American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.