Plagiarism, Writers and Conscience

[ NOTE: Discussion of Catholic Fiction at InsideCatholic.com]

* * PLAGIARISM
I have received several emails from readers ( in the few weeks that Properly Scared has been up) asking if I knew that a Canadian editor was fired due to his plagiarized work, including material from one of my articles.
Yes, I know of Robert Sibley’s [...]

CARDINAL EGAN and Giuliani’s Catholicism

By John-Henry Westen
NEW YORK, April 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The decision by several prominent pro-abortion politicians to publicly receive Holy Communion at papal Masses during the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI, despite clear Church teaching that says that their reception of Communion would constitute a grave sacrilege, may have backfired.
While at first it seemed [...]

THERE WAS A MAN!

NOTE: Pope Couture Continues–click here for The Red Shoes

I wrote “Wisdom in the Ruins” earlier this month about the Tocqueville Forum award that Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. of Georgetown received on April 10th. Here is a link to the very fine comments by the Professor McInerny ( “THERE WAS [...]

The Pope Connects the Dots on Marriage

“…in less than three years of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has spoken publicly about marriage on 111 occasions. His pronouncements connect marriage to such overarching themes as human rights, world peace, and the conversation between faith and reason.”
This is the lead of Maggie Gallagher’s recent article on Pope Benedict and Marriage–really worth reading.
I [...]

Politicians, abortion and Communion?

* FOR A FUN LOOK AT POPE COUTURE, CHECK NEWS DIGEST
There was a a great deal of speculation over who could/would/should receive Communion during the Papal masses while Pope Benedict XVI was in the United States.  The “wafer wars” in one headline was the predictable attempt to turn the whole issue into a cartoon.   [...]