What’s the good of having a Catholic president if all he does is persecute Catholics? In recent months, the government has come under fire for assorted incursions against President Joe Biden’s fellow congregants. In February, a leaked document revealed that…
Pope Francis has returned from touring Hungary, a bastion of European conservatism, where his mixed messaging is seemingly at odds with national sentiment. At a Mass celebrated Sunday in Budapest, His Holiness called on the Hungarian government — led by…
Do religious groups on public campuses have the right to choose leaders who adhere to their beliefs and behavioral tenets? Should religious campus groups at public institutions enjoy the same rights and accommodations that benefit their secular counterparts? Common sense…
The mystery of the missing Bibles from the Arizona House of Representatives members’ lounge has been solved. And it didn’t take a Hercule Poirot or a Columbo to solve it. No, a simple motion-activated camera, surreptitiously placed in the room,…
Spring is filled with myriad holy days for the Catholic Church. St. Patrick’s and St. Joseph’s feast days are widely celebrated, and the Solemnity of the Annunciation on March 25 gives another cause for celebration during the somber season of…
Media sources report that the Vatican is accusing the Chinese government of unilaterally appointing a new bishop to Shanghai in violation of a “secret pact” that Pope Francis and Chinese officials renewed last October. Shanghai is the largest Roman Catholic…
Back in 2017, when Amy Coney Barrett was undergoing confirmation hearings for her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein expressed concern about Judge Barrett’s devotion to her Catholic faith. “The dogma lives loudly within…
I spent Christmas traveling to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Africa’s Ivory Coast. A few months ago, looking around for a new project, I developed a book proposal examining the condition of Christianity on the continent of Africa and what…
Americans are increasingly coming to the conclusion that Democrats irreversibly damaged the nation through their pandemic restrictions. Nowhere is this more true than in the decline of American churches, which were gutted by onerous rules and outright bans that stretched…
