Josh Hawley’s New Pro-Life Group Will Fight Radical Abortions Up to Birth Agenda
A Republican senator’s new pro-life initiative is generating blowback within President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a new report. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and his wife Erin, a constitutional attorney affiliated with Alliance…
Somali Flag Raised Over Vermont School District
Derek Brumby/iStock/Getty Images Plus A school district in Vermont faces backlash after raising a Somali flag on its property on December 5.“We are raising the Somali flag this week in honor of our Somali youth and families in Winooski…
Chile Elects Pro-Life President José Antonio Kast
José Antonio Kast, a conservative lawyer and practicing Catholic who supports “life from conception to natural death,” has been elected president of Chile. Kast defeated Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara in a decisive runoff vote. With…
Sometimes, Everyone Is A Victim and Everyone Is At Fault
Yesterday saw the politicization of what is the most tragic small story I have encountered in a long time. Families often carry a lot of tragedy, but rarely does that tragedy extend all the way to parricide. Parricide accounts for only about…
Fighting the Good Fight Is to Trust and Obey – Religion & Liberty Online
Few have described the modern opposition to Christian truth as compellingly as Paul Kingsnorth in Against the Machine. Kingsnorth describes modernity in a vision: I saw a great wave of symbolic meaning. I saw it all as a rolling statement by…
Nobel Laureate released from jail thanks God and the Vatican
Jonathan Luxmore, OSV News Tuesday, December 16, 2025 A Catholic 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner who was unexpectedly freed from jail in Belarus has paid tribute to supporters who helped secure his release, while warning that over a thousand…
Sanity being restored? Sharp decline in transgender identification
Ryan Burge, Graphs About Religion Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Has there been a noticeable decline in the share of 18–22-year-olds who identify as transgender over the last couple of years? The answer is unequivocal: yes. In 2020, 8.6 percent of…
Hanukkah Light in a Dark World
Mendel Horowitz, First Things Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Before the Hamas war against Israel, the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, and yesterday’s shooting attack in Australia, I associated Hanukkah with triumph rather than…
‘This must stop’: Sydney archbishop condemns hate after Aussie terror kills 16
AC Wimmer, Catholic News Agency Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Catholic leaders in Australia have issued strong condemnations of what they described as a “festering” atmosphere of antisemitism, following a terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration…