“Our foreign-born citizens must permit us to say that they have been imprudent and have committed some serious mistakes,” so writes an esteemed Catholic social philosopher about the immigration question. “It is wrong to claim as a natural right…
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about the state of Colorado excluding Catholic families and preschools from the state’s universal preschool program because of their biblical beliefs about sexuality and marriage. It seems that despite…
Last week, King Charles III of England declined to issue an Easter greeting to the people of the church he is supposed to lead, as Defensor fidei. He does, however, make sure to mark Islamic holidays, which has led some to speculate that he is…
“Christ did not waste time criticising the Roman Empire, but founded the Church” — T.S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock Popes from John XXIII to Leo XIV have, in different ways, separated the question of peace from the concrete reality of the…
The Trump administration has canceled an $11 million federal contract that helps shelter and care for migrant children who enter the United States without a parent or legal guardian — putting a decades-long program in South Florida at risk of…
The pope may be many things in many contexts, but he should avoid becoming a shill for the Democratic Party. This is how he came across when he delivered a political statement just after he had been visited by David Axelrod, Obama’s…
Like so many other Americans, I seriously underestimated Donald Trump’s political skill when he first burst into the presidential race of 2016. At first, I was fully convinced that he was a “straw”—a candidate lured into the field by another…
My question is not quite the provocation it will probably sound like to some readers. For one thing, even an answer in the affirmative does not necessarily mean that the former host of Celebrity Apprentice is actually the Beast From the Sea…
I’ve been in Lisbon and, the past few days, Rome presenting translations of my recent book The Martyrs of the New Millennium. It’s encouraging that Christians in Europe are starting to realize the virulence and extent of anti-Christian acts…
We have all heard that famous quote echoed by Mark Twain, the provenance of which is disputed: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.’ Perhaps this is a little too strong when assessing the truth behind the so-called…
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