The Catholic Church should be doing what Charlie Kirk did

Anthony Esolen, National Catholic Register

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Prof. Esolen recalls a speaking engagement he had at Yale with Christian students that was interrupted by “protesting” homosexuals. And that memory occasions thoughts about Charlie Kirk, a young man – somehow overlooked by schools and colleges despite his sharp and energetic mind, or maybe not despite but because of it – did not shout at people, did not try to muffle or humiliate his interlocutors, and did not allow the crowds of his admirers to do so either. Various Catholics online, who seem to detest the very idea that he was moving closer to Catholicism. Why should it sadden them to think so?