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Articles by Kevin Schmiesing

About Kevin Schmiesing
Kevin Schmiesing is a contributing writer for the First Liberty Institute, research director at the Ft. Myers-based Freedom and Virtue Institute, and a research associate at the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life. First Liberty is representing Capitol Hill Baptist Church in its dispute with Mayor Bowser and the city government of Washington.
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The Dispatch

Property rights are fundamental to supporting religious freedom

December 24, 2020 Kevin Schmiesing 6

Government-imposed public health measures during the COVID pandemic have ignited a new round of church-state conflict, whose resolution—or lack thereof—will resonate long after the coronavirus crisis has passed. These legal clashes have for the most […]

America on Trial

A clear and well-informed addition to an old and important debate

July 3, 2020 Kevin Schmiesing 0

There is a consequential debate going on right now in intellectual Catholic circles that ought to interest all Catholics. It can be found in the (often digital) pages of First Things, Law and Liberty, Public […]

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Catholic care for the sick in the U.S. has a long, impressive history

April 20, 2020 Kevin Schmiesing 8

The first coronavirus patient in the United States was treated in a Catholic health care system in the state of Washington. Catholic institutions account for a large percentage of medical services in many states and […]

Interview

When the U.S. Abandoned a Catholic President

January 19, 2016 Kevin Schmiesing 0

On November 2, 1963, shortly after they attended Mass in the city of Cholon, Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were taken from a nearby Marian grotto and executed. They […]

Interview

Galileo was Right—But So Were His Critics

May 30, 2015 Kevin Schmiesing 0

Ever since the seventeenth century, the celebrated “Galileo affair” has been one of the featured items on the list of dark moments in the history of Catholicism. That the Church mistreated the Italian astronomer—or at […]

General

Catholic History: The “High Drama” of the Faith

April 21, 2015 Kevin Schmiesing 0

In the 1980s, Richard John Neuhaus famously criticized the “naked public square”: the notion that public life—politics, business, education—should be devoid of religious content. Advocates of the naked public square see religion as inherently divisive. […]

Essay

The Rise and Fall of Catholic Communities

April 7, 2015 Kevin Schmiesing 0

“Grief, remorse, and a deep sense of crisis.” That’s how the archbishop of Nagasaki, Japan recently described the reaction of Japanese Catholics to a grim archdiocesan synod report. The Catholic population of the region has […]

Books

Accommodation and Americanism, Yesterday and Today

April 12, 2013 Kevin Schmiesing 0

As a trained historian, I am normally very suspicious of the mixture of history and contemporary affairs. The potential to distort history in order to promote a contemporary agenda is simply too great. Make arguments […]

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