An excellent response from the Archbishop of San Francisco to Nancy Pelosi’s musings on catholicism and abortion. It is an excellently written article, describing in a clear manner how someone can be a liberal and a Catholic. In fact, it is revealing that an Archbishop clearly has a better understanding of freedom than do most [...]

6 of 9 Roman Catholic now. WASPs are an endangered species, with Stevens being the only remaining one.

Justice
Affiliation

John Roberts
(Chief Justice)
Catholic

Stephen G. Breyer
Jewish

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jewish

Anthony M. Kennedy
Catholic

Antonin Scalia
Catholic

Sonia Sotomayor
Catholic

John Paul Stevens
Protestant

Clarence Thomas
Catholic

Samuel Alito
Catholic

The Archbishop of Canterbury, whose political views I usually use a reliable indicator of what I should oppose, has finally said something I can agree with. He doesn’t encourage people to vote for the BNP.
Still I wish he could be a bit more forthright about it…
Some parties, they said, would exploit the current political [...]

You’ve got to feel sorry for Carrie Prejean. She dared to express a view – opposition to gay marriage – that is shared by the majority of Americans and by her president. For this she has been vilified and harassed.
Turns out she has had semi-naked photographs of herself wearing pink panties taken when [...]

The Guardian being the Guardian, they just had to publish a Christians are spoiling Easter story by some grimy lead faced trade unionist with a job in local government.
And anyway, if we’re not religious, if we’re not Christians, why is a lack of knowledge about the religious symbolism of Easter such a bad thing? Why [...]

I found this interesting.  I knew Scalia and Thomas were Catholics, but didn’t know about the others.

Justice
Affiliation

John Roberts
(Chief Justice)
Catholic

Stephen G. Breyer
Jewish

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jewish

Anthony M. Kennedy
Catholic

Antonin Scalia
Catholic

David H. Souter
Episcopalian

John Paul Stevens
Protestant

Clarence Thomas
Catholic

Samuel Alito
Catholic

Last weekend I headed to Milan for a couple of days respite from my arduous academic duties. First stop, il Duomo, the largest gothic cathedral in the world and the second largest Catholic cathedral in the world (by floor area), it magnificently features much naked ass.

I stayed with a friend of mine who, unforewarned, did [...]

Rowan Williams set out to discuss:

the social meanings of anti-religious language or behaviour

which is interesting. The first mistake he makes is where he describes a tension:

The liberal concern for the rights of minorities has been in tension with the liberal commitment to free speech 

where he confuses the traditional liberal concern that minorities should have the same [...]