Now that he’s back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump is shaming his predecessor — the self-proclaimed “Catholic” Joe Biden — and once again helming one of the most pro-Catholic presidential administrations in history. To honor the Catholic liturgical…
On Feb. 20, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), moderator Mercedes Schlapp, during her 30-minute conversation with Vice President JD Vance, asked him: “Your faith — why is it so important to you?” To his credit, Vance gave a…
The editor-in-chief of Vox, Swati Sharma, recently unleashed a scathing critique of Vice President JD Vance, dismissing his “godawful reading of Christianity.” In her piece, Sharma mocked Vance for invoking the ancient concept of ordo amoris to argue that love…
Cynthia Erivo, prominently known for her role as Elphaba in Wicked, was cast to play Jesus Christ in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl in August. Erivo identifies herself as a queer individual,…
Claremont Institute Prof. Glenn Ellmers began a talk during a Hillsdale College conference on “Christianity in America” by citing the famous letter President George Washington wrote to the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island. (Ellmers’ talk was adapted and published…
It may not be a surprise to hear a Catholic convert who was tutored by Dominicans quoting St. Thomas Aquinas. But certainly nobody had the Vice President of the United States publicly citing the Dominican saint and referring to his…
If we wanted, we could talk about the news today; as always there is plenty of it. It turns out that a GOP congresswoman from Texas who hasn’t shown up to work since July is actually in an assisted living…
America’s Catholic bishops don’t usually enjoy being political commentators. It’s not in their job description. When they do choose to comment on some policy, some less-than-religious political analyst at the New York Times usually writes an op-ed fretting about the…
Something beautiful happened last week. The bells of Notre Dame rang for the first time since a terrible fire consumed the magnificent cathedral, originally completed in 1260 for the glory of God, five years ago. To a poetic mind, the…
