The recent attack on Israel by Hamas has led many prominent voices in government and media to call for a substantial response, including an escalation of the conflict to include America and Iran. How should Catholics judge this conflict and America’s role in it?
Is the Church enabling criminality and facilitating the oppression of the immigrants we are hoping to help?
We must temper our passions, which are naturally aroused by the horrifying butchery perpetrated by Hamas and its allies. We must pursue clarity amid calamity, especially since the crisis is not at our doorstep.Â
The same pitfalls of well-meaning Americans going on the internet and crying for the United States to involve itself in ethnic conflicts applies just as well in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as in the case of Ukraine.
Many Catholic commentators urge governments to economically incentivize childbearing. However, the early returns on such incentives disappoint.
Dress that doesn’t care, dress that reveals, dress that disconnects us from the noble are all signs of dysphoria and displacement.
In recent years, the secular Left has been working feverishly to turn Christians into violent monsters. We are told that the number one threat of terrorism in America is from the Right.
For the first time ever pro-lifers were accused of employing prayers and hymns as weapons against women seeking abortions. Apparently one need not shoot an abortionist or torch a clinic to be justly accused of violence.
Not only do nations have the right to enact laws that limit immigration but also nations have as their principal obligation to first assure the common welfare of its own citizens.
While president, Donald Trump achieved many pro-life goals. But now he hides in ambiguity, trying to sound ethical while opening a loophole for abortion that should outrage many of his supporters.
A number of long-term trends, including the collapse of mainline Protestantism, has led to the death of religious liberty, killed by the very groups who long defended it.
Russia could no more accept NATO in Ukraine than France could have accepted neutrality in 1914. Both states were reacting to conditions created by an opponent, both saw themselves in jeopardy, and both had in front of them a no-war option leading to a peaceful exit.
The “realism” school of foreign policy—formerly called “realpolitik”—is contrary to the traditional understanding of just wars.
The crisis of legitimacy we are currently experiencing is but a symptom of the slow death of Western civilization.Â
Russians consider a loss in Ukraine as tantamount to Russia’s losing its historical identity—not merely as a country but as a civilization, a society distinct from the West.
A recent attack in Fargo, North Dakota at first seemed to be another senseless act of violence. But evidence is emerging that it might have been a jihad attack.
David Brooks never bothers to consider who makes the country mean. Rather, he continues to flatter himself and his audience, cynically affirming a toxic outlook that divides and demoralizes a majority of the population.
As liberal lawmakers destroyed the state of New York, Catholic Church leaders stood by and assisted in its demise.
Conservatives have lost cultural battle after cultural battle over the decades, and now many of them want to conserve those losses.
The popular reaction to the Trump mug shot reveals that many conservatives realize it’s not morning in America anymore.