The Typical Catholic Vote—and the Supreme Court
With the election of a new president less than a year away, at least one thing about the outcome seems reasonably clear: whoever the winner turns out to be, a majority of the voters identifying […]
politics
Modern Politics and the Death of Moral Consensus
The inability of parties to America’s culture war to communicate meaningfully with one another on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, and assisted suicide is a disturbing fact of national life today. One observer remarks that […]
Essay
Why is Amnesty International Defending the Executioners?
With the recent legalization of “same-sex marriage” in Ireland earlier this year, the sexual revolutionaries feel they have the momentum to decriminalize abortion on the Emerald Isle. Abortion is prohibited under the Constitution’s eighth amendment, which […]
Paul Ryan: Faithful Catholic or Ayn Rand disciple?
A reader left this comment yesterday in response to George Weigel’s piece about Speakers of the House and Paul Ryan: Impossible to understand how anyone can conclude Ryan is a faithful Catholic when he is […]
Law and Lawfulness, Obedience and Justice
When a moral norm that had been honored in Christendom for two millennia came tumbling down, to my knowledge only one person in any official position, a county court clerk in Ashland, Kentucky, protested its […]
Immigration or Invasion?
Europe’s embrace of mass immigration can be explained in part by guilt from the Nazi era. It’s no coincidence that Germany, which has the most guilt to deal with, has pledged to take in the […]
Archbishop Chaput Reflects on Roots, Nature, Future of Religious Freedom
Philadelphia, Pa., Mar 18, 2015 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia warned Tuesday that the United States will face increasing pressure to abandon its traditionally broad protections for religious liberty, though […]
The Catholic Con Regroups
Promising yet again to “move beyond partisan and ideological divisions,” the George Soros-supported Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) has refined its successful strategies of the past in its attempts to convince Catholic […]
Boy Scouts, “Bigotry” and the Catholic Culture Wars
The decision by the Boy Scouts to include self-identified gay scout members has opened a new front in the Catholic culture wars as progressive Catholic organizations are denouncing the decision by a Bremerton, Washington, Catholic […]
The Puzzle of Religious Liberty
A Most Puzzling Puzzler I invite the reader to think through an interesting and very serious conundrum. Many of us are rightly alarmed at ever-bolder attempts by our increasingly secular state to violate the religious […]