We heard eleven pipers piping, the eleven faithful apostles. We saw the difficult question of loyalty that apostleship raises. How difficult is made clear when Peter, in fear of the repression coming down on the small band after the arrest…
April 15, 2021 Anywhere, USA — President Harris will speak at the dedication of Joseph R. Biden Catholic High School on May 1, according to a statement by the Catholic Archdiocese of Anywhere and the high school’s board of trustees. “We…
Mirabile dictu! It is rare for free-market advocates to find themselves in agreement with Pope Francis. He is, more often than not, against those very things that make free markets possible: private property, competition, and capital accumulation. Instead, the pope…
Since his elevation to the papacy in 2013 Pope Francis has continued the Church’s staunch defense of religious freedom and human rights for all, a key theme of every pope since Dignitatis Humanae. As such, even as the Church’s moral…
Notoriously, Baptists supported Hitler at the August 1934 Berlin meeting of the Baptist World Alliance and many maintained a positive assessment of der Führer in succeeding years. The gist of one type of Baptist Hitlerism ran something like, “Well he…
A spanking new organization has formed among Southern Baptists to resist the incursion of critical race theory into the largest Protestant denomination in North America. Founders Ministries, an older organization, and an array of other evangelical watchdog websites, vlogs, and…
“For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect — which I don’t expect them to be for quite a number of years!” – Thomas More, Utopia To what shall I liken reading one of Pope Francis’s encyclicals?…
Balabish, 1915. Thomas Whittemore and fellow members of the Egypt Exploration Society have spent the winter conducting excavations at this lonely site, a barren desert promontory on the eastern bank of the Nile, not too far from Abu Tisht in…
On Friday, President Trump declared church services as essential services. This was met by outrage from both secularists, as George Neumayr described in his Sunday column, and the NeverOpeners, who seem content to have the country at a standstill indefinitely….
