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

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 55

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

Analysis

The Youth Synod: The next step in the Francis papacy

March 29, 2018 Thomas R. Ascik 29

The just-issued document for the upcoming youth synod emphasizes social justice, the empowerment of women, and changing the Church’s moral teachings. […]

The Dispatch

“Only Yesterday,” today, and the decline of religion

January 2, 2018 Thomas R. Ascik 2

Frederick Lewis Allen’s popular work of history leaves the reader with the impression that the post-war 1920s is the original source of almost every fact […]

Analysis

Who are the friends of religious liberty?

December 4, 2017 Thomas R. Ascik 7

A breakdown of who is siding with who in the “cake case,” Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, scheduled for oral arguments in the Supreme […]

Features

Church teaching and sexuality: What “no longer” holds?

October 19, 2017 Thomas R. Ascik 23

For the past three years, the emphasis of Pope Francis and those close to him has been on “respect” and “listening”, with little or no […]

Features

Why Fr. Spadaro owes an apology to half of all American Christians

August 27, 2017 Thomas R. Ascik 22

Antonio Spadaro, S.J., has pioneered a new kind of ecumenism: denouncing the content and quality of other Christians’ faith and slamming the Church doors in […]

The Dispatch

The 2018 Synod and the “new approach” to youth in the Church

March 16, 2017 Thomas R. Ascik 0

In January, the Vatican made a formal announcement of the convening in October 2018 of a synod of bishops from across the world on the subject of “Youth, Faith, and Vocational Discernment”.  At the same […]

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