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“Do not repay anyone evil for evil”
Yesterday, in reviewing the obvious nature of electoral shenanigan’s in Los Angeles, I warned that we must resist the temptation to be like them. My argument, made in less eloquent terms than the Apostle Paul did in the passage quoted in…
A Church for the Ages – Religion & Liberty Online
On the 29th of July 1909, as darkness fell over the Turó del Carmel hillside, Antoni Gaudí climbed onto the roof of his Parc Güell home. He was 57 years old. Across the city, columns of smoke rose from firelit streets. Barcelona’s churches and…
Catholic Relief Services gets $240 million in U.S. humanitarian aid
The State Department named Catholic Relief Services as the first in a round of global aid awards a year after the Trump administration closed the United States Agency for International Development. The post Catholic Relief Services…
Cost of abuse scandal in US soars 82 percent in single year to $483.5M
The costs of the clerical abuse scandal in the United States soared 82 percent in the July 2024—June 2025 reporting year, to $483,534,316, according to the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection. The post Cost of…
The forgotten foundations of Constitutional law
Long before the separation of powers and judicial review were given written form, Greek philosophy, Roman law, Christian theology, and the medieval doctrine of paired jurisdictions laid the deeper architecture of constitutional government.…
Beware the Benedict bot – The Catholic Thing
The words of a dead man / Are modified in the guts of the living.” Neither W. H. Auden, who wrote these lines in 1939, nor W. B. Yeats, whom they concern, knew that their words would one day end up in the matrices and vector fields that…
‘Madame Bovary’ and Us – The Catholic Thing
When the classic French novel Madame Bovary first appeared in 1856, public prosecutors tarred the serial novel as obscene – outrage aux bonnes mœurs et à la religion (“an outrage to public morality and religion”) – given author Gustave…
Are Ultrasounds of Unborn Babies Making People More Pro-Life?
How much does an ultrasound impact a woman’s decision whether to abort? How much does it affect the societal attitude toward the destruction of unborn children? If you are a member of the Abortion Industrial Complex, you’ll announce proudly…
America is Becoming More Pro-Life, Fewer People Say Abortion is Okay
Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll, which it has conducted since 2001, is always fascinating but this year’s results of 1,001 adults are especially encouraging. “Moral Acceptability Falls for Several Behaviors” reads the headline to Megan …
House Passes $70 Billion Trump Immigration Enforcement Bill Over Unified Democrat Opposition
House Republicans on Tuesday muscled through a sweeping $70 billion immigration enforcement package, delivering a major legislative victory to President Donald Trump and cementing GOP plans for an aggressive long-term border crackdown. The…