Archives of Kyle Cupp
As you’ve probably heard by now, an iconic priest named Father Benedict Groeschel depicted clerics involved in sexual abuse as the victims of seductive youngsters in a now-removed interview with the National Catholic Register. ...
The other day, Sarah Posner and Mollie Ziegler Hemingway discussed religious faith and the Republican National Convention on Bloggingheads. Most interesting to me in the exchange was Mollie’s arguing that Catholics opposed to the HHS...
Some unhappy syllogisms for your holiday weekend, courtesy of Woody Allen’s Love and Death:
Introducing Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the GOP convention yesterday, Speaker John Boehner said, “He’s a man who knows that the preferential option for the poor doesn’t translate into a preferential option for big government.” ...
I’ve begun a series at Vox Nova about the postmodern quality of my religious faith. If you scratch your head at my attempt to embrace both postmodern philosophy and orthodox Roman Catholicism, this series...
Today’s proposition comes from Gabriel Marcel: A community is only possible when beings acknowledge that they are mutually different while existing together in their differences. Was he correct? Discuss.
My stance on secularism has just recently evolved. I explain how on the front page.
I’m so glad that our local public library now carries DVDs of the old 80s Transformers cartoon; the newer versions feature the nauseating combination of whiny robots and even whinier humans. And I just...
Questions: Are there objective criteria for determining if and when nascent life becomes a person whose life is worthy of respect? If so or if not, how do we know this? Please discuss. With...
Tom Van Dyke, concerned that the road I’m traveling leads to skepticism and nihilism, asked me to state for the record whether anything is self-evident. I stand by my answer–I’m not sure–but I’d like...
