When A Bad Idea Proves It

The legalization of marijuana was/is (depending on your location) a bad idea.  Intoxication, in any form, is not a good idea – even if we tolerate it to some limited extent.  Given that we do try to limit and control intoxication, the last thing…

The Church and immigration sanity

Francis X. Maier, First Things Thursday, October 23, 2025 One can reasonably criticize the Trump administration’s current deportation efforts as too broad and too blunt. Along with arresting gang members, traffickers, murderers, and rapists,…

Leo XIV contra Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIV took his name to signal his closeness to Leo XIII, and yet in his recent Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi te, his statements sometimes seem at odds with his predecessor: on the root of social evils, the remediation of poverty, and…