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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 Brew: Half a Million Criminals Among Illegals Trump Has Deported
The announcement came Monday during a press conference in Sarasota, Florida, where Noem outlined the department’s ongoing enforcement actions under President Donald Trump’s direction. “Since January, the Department of Homeland Security has…
Aren’t Nobel Winners Supposed to Be Living? – Religion & Liberty Online
We live in an amazing time. As David Kotter recently noted in The Washington Times, we have flipped “extreme global poverty” in just the past 250 years: When the USA was founded, roughly 90% of earth’s population lived in—by today’s…
Vatican grants two-year extension for Latin Mass in Cleveland
The Diocese of Cleveland has confirmed that the Vatican has granted permission for the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass at two diocesan churches for a further two years. The extension applies to St Mary’s Church on South Main Street in…
Robbery at the Louvre in Paris: France robbed of Empress Eugénie’s devout Catholic legacy
Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register Thursday, October 23, 2025 The Louvre Museum in Paris became the scene of a meticulously planned daylight heist this past Sunday morning. Four helmeted men broke into the Galerie d’Apollon – home to…
As we grow out of intellectual adolescence, religion’s popularity soars
Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens recorded a two-hour conversation in 2007 deriding religion that got millions of YouTube views and was said to have sparked an atheist revolution. No longer. In the fall of…
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…
Another Suspected Drug Boat Destroyed; GOP Senator Rand Paul Objects Again
AP ImagesRand Paul War Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the destruction of yet another of what the Trump administration calls “drug boats,” this one in the eastern Pacific Ocean.The strike is the third in the last week. U.S. forces…
Australian Territory Boots Pretend Women From Women’s Prisons
HUNG CHIN LIU/iStock/Getty Images Plus Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) has barred “transgender” inmates from being housed in prisons for the opposite sex, citing concerns for the safety of female prisoners.On October 13, NT Chief…