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About Thomas R. Ascik
Thomas R. Ascik is an attorney who has written on a variety of legal and constitutional issues.
The Dispatch

Catholics In Power: The progressive stances of Biden and Pelosi

November 19, 2020 Thomas R. Ascik 32

The two most powerful political figures in the country, probable (mindful that the election has still not been officially declared) President-elect Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, are Catholics who oppose religious […]

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Can religious organizations engage in public service?

November 6, 2020 Thomas R. Ascik 5

In Fulton v. Philadelphia, the Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in a case in which the City of Philadelphia cancelled its long-time contract with Catholic Social Services (CSS) of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to […]

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Will 2020 mark the turning point on abortion?

September 30, 2020 Thomas R. Ascik 19

In the last two years, abortion as a public issue has changed in at least four ways. First, the formerly abortion-should-be-safe-and-rare Democratic party culminated recent years of expanding its abortion advocacy by establishing abortion as […]

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Will the federal courts decide who is a “minister?”

May 7, 2020 Thomas R. Ascik 4

In two cases now before the Supreme Court, the justices are dealing with the constitutional status of a “minister” at a religious school and with the question of who decides the qualifications of a minister: […]

Analysis

SCOTUS to hear challenge to anti-Catholic school funding laws

January 21, 2020 Thomas R. Ascik 5

In oral arguments tomorrow in the case of Espinoza v. Montana, the US Supreme Court will hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the latter-19th century’s notoriously anti-Catholic—nowadays  anti-religion—“Blaine Amendment,” of which 38 states […]

Analysis

The Final Report of the Amazon Synod and the “conversion” of the Church

November 21, 2019 Thomas R. Ascik 39

Catholicism has been in South America for 500 years.  Having apparently failed to convert and serve the “indigenous peoples” of the Amazon, who reside in nine of the continent’s thirteen countries, the Catholic Church has […]

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Pro-abortion pundits cannot debunk the scientific facts about life, conception

February 28, 2019 Thomas R. Ascik 8

I can’t find anyone—including Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion media—who disagrees about what science has to say about the beginning of human life. What, you say that the March for Life caused the publishing of […]

Analysis

The Youth Synod and the birth of the Synodal Church

November 27, 2018 Thomas R. Ascik 30

With his tightly controlled final document of the Youth Synod together with a new Apostolic Constitution that he released just before the start of the Synod, Pope Francis made it clear he wishes to  establish […]

Analysis

The 2018 Synod: Key themes, deep tensions, and many questions

October 1, 2018 Thomas R. Ascik 28

Despite the now ever-increasing number of reports and articles across the world about the preying on children and young people by priests and bishops (along with cover-ups, denials, and obstructions by various bishops), Pope Francis […]

Analysis

Whither the Church on “sensitivity” to homosexuals?

August 21, 2018 Thomas R. Ascik 53

To what degree does the campaign of American Jesuit Fr. James Martin become the agenda for parishes in the Catholic Church throughout the world? […]

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