Even with a clean sweep of the White House, including both Houses of Congress and a Supreme Court firmly committed to the rule of law, will a Trump victory make any real difference in the end if the Democrats refuse to go along with the results?
Surprisingly, the UN Human Rights Committee urged Belgium to make sure parents getting prenatal screening also receive information and counseling that does not promote stereotypes about persons with Down syndrome.
The contrived “shocker” ending of “Conclave” hearkens back to the legend of Pope Joan, which has always been a favorite of the disaffected and rabidly anti-Catholic Protestants.
We are not simply minds that happen to have bodies; we are integrated beings. Technologies like Neuralink, which aim to fuse the human brain with AI, could radically alter this conception of the human person.
I expect heresy and moral scandal to blight the Church from time to time. What distresses me more is the utter lack of seriousness, the lack of appreciation for the awesome responsibility which Church leaders bear.
The future of American Catholic schools lies in operating as independently of the state as possible while still remaining financially feasible. Is this possible?
Throughout the 2024 campaign, Kamala Harris made clear that nothing impassions her like abortion. Abortion, abortion, abortion.
Trump’s decision to retreat from advocacy of the pro-life cause and try to persuade those who remain reluctant to vote for him is defensible from a pro-life standpoint.
For Trump, the world isn’t a war of all against all where America competes thoughtlessly against adversaries over resources. His program is to create a unipolar, stable world stage where vulnerable people have reason to trust our leadership.
The wisdom and witness of Fr. Willie Doyle challenged me personally and both enriched and renewed my priesthood. Fr. Doyle has made me a better priest.
Why should one of the most famous people in history be featured as one of the unsung heroes of Christendom? Perhaps because most people do not perceive Shakespeare as a hero of Christendom.
It remains one of the enduring consolations of my life that, joined as I am to Christ’s Body, the Church, I may at any time interact with the dead, with those cherished and faithful souls who have gone home before me to God.
Big Food is joined at the hip with Big Pharma. They have set up a system where one makes us sick, and the other makes us medicated patients for life.
The so-called wars of religion were usually about conversion, not extermination. Conversion is certainly not a goal evident in the present Middle East conflict.
The Left will be utterly unhinged if Trump wins the election, which could lead to a decidedly unpeaceful transfer of power.
Catholic tradition has a solution to the anxiety we face in our stressful lives: the Holy Hour.
No Catholic is permitted to surrender the duty of his citizenship to a sullen despair, exaggerated analyses of decline, idiosyncratic critiques of democracy, or a cynical secession from his duties.
The world we live in, our experience of goodness and light and relative plenty, will likely be upended for a time. Pray that God makes champions of us.
In an effort to combat the lies of the Left, some conservatives are falling for alternative historical lies.
We’ll start with the blasphemy of the year. There’s nothing quite like relaxing at the opera with abundant female nudity, fresh blood, (real) skin piercings, and actual lesbian sex acts. This used to be called porn, and one did not go to the opera for it. Paul Hindemith’s half-hour one-act opera Sancta Susanna (1922), which … Read more