The Gallup Poll, as Bill Cork pointed out, has revealed that Church-going Catholics are far more likely that Church-going non-Catholics (almost all Protestant) to accept immoral behavior.
I do not find this surprising. Other polls I have seen over the years reveal similar patterns.
This data helps explain Notre Dame’s invitation to Obama. Many Catholics accept Obama’s [...]
Tags: Moral Theology · Secularism · abortion · education
Notre Dame did not anticipate the level of criticism it is getting for its invitation to Obama, criticism not only from grass-root pro-life activists, but also from bishops and cardinals. Those who defend the invitation have been rather lame. They claim that the invitation does not show an approval of Obama’s positions on life; this [...]
Tags: Medical ethics · Moral Theology · Responsibility · Voluntarism · abortion · guilt
European leaders do not seem to care for Obama’s policies any more than they cared for Bush’s, at least when it comes to economic policy.
Obama wants to borrow and spend to stimulate the economy; Europeans are very reluctant to do so. The demographic situations of the two continents are different
Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist [...]
Tags: demography
Birthrates continue to fall all over the world; in Europe they are well below the replacement level. There has been so much population bomb propaganda over the past generation that many people regard this as a good development. Yglesias (tip to Ross Douthat) writes
Less clear to me is why so many people seem concerned by [...]
Tags: demography