During the current and long stretch of Ordinary Time, the famous towns of Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned several times during the Readings for Mass. When Catholics today hear “Sodom and Gomorrah,” what comes to […]
The Economist recently lauded the fact that sex selection abortions seem to be on the decline. “The noxious practice of aborting girls simply for being girls has become dramatically less common.” Earlier ultrasounds and modern […]
The Supreme Court, on June 27th, upheld the right of parents to remove their children from gender-laden indoctrination in public schools. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Court ruled 6-3 that Montgomery County, Maryland, violated the […]
Current Eucharistic debates cannot be reduced to allowing or not allowing the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. If that was the issue rather than just a symptom, a solution might be more readily worked […]
The June 18th Supreme Court ruling upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender mutilation of minors–United States v. Skrmetti–is generating criticism from the Left. But there is room for concerns from those who welcome the ruling. In […]
It’s hard to believe, but 32 years have passed since enactment of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA, P.L. 103-141), a 1993 law that clarified federal policy as promoting religious freedom domestically. RFRA came in […]
June 1, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (268 US 510). What’s that, you ask? And why should I care? Pierce was a unanimous Supreme […]
Judge Sima Patel of the Michigan Court of Claims, on May 13th, struck down three abortion-related provisions in Michigan law. The provisions required that a woman contemplating abortion be provided with the ultrasound image of […]
The dove theologically symbolizes the Holy Spirit: He is represented either in the form of a dove (as in the theophanies at Jesus’s Baptism) or of flame (as in the first Pentecost). The Vatican certainly […]
Our Lenten journey through the saints in the Confiteor ends this week. After asking the intercession of Our Lady, St. Michael, St. John the Baptist, and Ss. Peter and Paul, the old Confiteor offers more: […]
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