When Pope Francis surprised the Catholic world on October 7, 2021, announcing that he was about to make Saint Irenaeus of Lyon a Doctor of the Church, the reasons he gave weren’t that surprising. After […]
In September 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107 into law, making California a sanctuary state offering shelter to transgender children and their parents who leave jurisdictions restricting access to gender-affirming care to minors. The state senate has now approved […]
“Dad, I’m sorry I haven’t been in better touch.” We were sitting on the porch late at night, two blocks from the beach, with the waves and sounds of the boardwalk within earshot. “I know […]
Rachel Levine, then a nominee for assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies before her confirmation hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2021. / Credit: Carolin… […]
American heroes come in all shapes and sizes: A President who disregards the advice of his attorney general to rescue captive military forces. A fourteen-year-old youth who forges his mother’s signature to join the military […]
According to a source well-positioned to know, one of the behind-the-scenes dramas of the present pontificate involved Pope Francis’s determination to amend the Catechism of the Catholic Church and declare capital punishment an intrinsically evil act: […]
Dignitas Infinita – “The large number of citations indicates the Vatican’s desire to buttress its teaching with insights from thinkers both within and without the Church.” Vatican II and Dignitas Infinita (First Things) The Conservative […]
Communist China wants you to believe it cares about the environment. Look at us, says Beijing: we make EVs and solar panels. We produce cuddly pandas. We’re going green! Try telling that to the people […]
“The ordinance of heaven is termed the natural law; the principle which directs us to conform our actions to the natural law is called the rule of moral conduct; or the right path; the organized […]
The Vatican communications chief, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, faces mounting criticism from voices across the spectrum of opinion in the Church after he defended—on Friday, at the premier Catholic media event of the year in the […]
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