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December 2015

December 14, 2015
So, I'm on holidays from my first term at university (sorry blog, will do better...

September 2015

September 14, 2015
I don't want this to become just “Ben's pro-life blog”, and I've got a post on...

August 2015

August 21, 2015
I was blogging over at the Iona Institute, the think-tank at which I work, about...
August 13, 2015
As the Planned Parenthood "fetal tissue resarch" videos were shining a spotlight on abortion in the...

June 2015

June 05, 2015
  Does the modern west really put children first? Ross Douthat has just written a clear,...

May 2015

May 28, 2015
As Samwise Gamgee once said: “I’m back.” For the past few months, I’ve been occupied -...

February 2015

February 05, 2015
Stephen Fry recently had a bit of a go at God on Irish television, telling...

January 2015

January 19, 2015
Ireland’s Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, came out this morning in a radio interview, becoming...

November 2014

November 27, 2014
Apologies, all, for my prolonged abscence: I'm still figuring out this whole work/life/blog balance business. Fortunately...
November 08, 2014
Leah Libresco ran a symposium last week on "Loving Parishioners in their Particularity" about concrete ways...

October 2014

October 21, 2014
So, the Synod. I remember, at the height of the kerfuffle about dissident priests being...
October 13, 2014
I am often told, by a young Catholic gentleman of considerable intelligence, wit, and virtue,...
October 05, 2014
  When my colleague Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote his “What Should Abortion Penalties Be” blog post...

September 2014

September 30, 2014
What happens to politicians? Why do they talk that way, in clichés, bromides, and waffle?...
September 24, 2014
Sorry for the hiatus, everyone - I've been away playing Inspector Javert in a youth...
September 15, 2014
Last time, in throwing in my two cents on the discussion of "civility" in debate prompted...
September 12, 2014
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig wrote some really thought-provoking stuff recently about civility, which prompted interesting responses from...
September 08, 2014
Leah Libresco had two really great posts recently on the “Nice Guy problem” and the...
September 03, 2014
Editors' Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read...

August 2014

August 29, 2014
RTE Radio One held a panel discussion on one of its chatshows last Sunday, one...
August 23, 2014
There's a new poll out on Ireland's moral attitudes, which includes the interesting information that 61%...
August 19, 2014
The first of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones books opens with a beheading. Lord...
August 05, 2014
So, hello all. Cead mile failte and all that. I’m Ben. Catholic, Irishman, writer. Eldest...
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