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Pope Leo Expected to Appoint Pro-Life Bishop Ron Hicks to Lead New York Archdiocese
Pope Leo XIV is expected to appoint pro-life Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, as the new archbishop of New York, replacing retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Cardinal Dolan has been an eloquent and outspoken defender of the pro-life…
U.K.’s “Swift Courts” to Replace Jury Trials
asbe/iStock/Getty Images Plus The U.K. Labour government under Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice David Lammy announced on December 2 that — in a shocking dismantling of centuries-old liberties — jury trials for…
China Will Lose 3.2 Million People Next Year as Population Crisis Continues
A recent article in Newsweek highlights the dramatic population decline facing China after decades of anti-family policies. According to U.N. projections, China’s population will shrink by 3.2 million people next year — more than the population…
Speaker Mike Johnson: Don’t Fund Abortions in Obamacare
House Speaker Mike Johnson declared Wednesday that Republicans will not allow U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund abortions through Obamacare The Speaker firmly opposed discharge petitions that lack longstanding protections against such funding.…
The Effect of Grade Inflation No One Talks About
Fox recently looked at the mounting evidence of grade inflation. Covid has accelerated it and “raised awareness” (can we officially call that turn of phrase a cliché yet?) about it, but the problem existed well before. The video piece in the…
Funeral Home Staffer Arrives at Planned Parenthood to Take Away Aborted Baby’s Body
Coalition Life, the nation’s largest pro-life professional sidewalk counseling organization, has released footage of a hearse pulling into the Fairview Heights, IL Planned Parenthood. The video contains footage of a Coalition Life sidewalk…
There Is No Freedom Without Religious Freedom – Religion & Liberty Online
Publishers often promote books as being “timely,” even when the book in question just seems like the latest on a picked-over topic. Eerdmans, the publisher of John D. Wilsey’s excellent Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer, uses the word…
The True Islam – The Catholic Thing
Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will judge men on the last day” (par 16). But when…
Hong Kong Catholic leader Jimmy Lai found guilty
Hong Kong’s drawn-out show trial of Jimmy Lai has now resulted in a guilty verdict. Lai was convicted of colluding with foreign powers under Hong Kong’s National Security Law, deliberately written to imperil any critic of Beijing’s repression in…
When the Vicar of Christ joins the media scrum
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register Wednesday, December 17, 2025 It has become a new papal convention. Every Tuesday evening, as Pope Leo XIV departs for the Vatican after his now-routine day of rest at Castel Gandolfo, he will stop to…