Some people find God after falling off a horse, but most Christians approach faith on a day-to-day basis through a cocktail made up of God’s grace, prayer, the cultivation of virtues and sacraments, and also, to some extent, human affections….
I read that the New York Post has internationalized the controversy over the “gay Christ” poster (so named by the media) that announces this year’s Holy Week in Seville. The poster truly is as awful as the excessive controversy that…
The surveys about mainline Protestantism just keep coming and coming. And — this might not be news to you — the results of those surveys keep getting worse and worse. Ryan Burge, religious pollster extraordinaire, chimed in with one last…
“Flagging the Troublemakers,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator, Jan. 24, 2023.
Last week, teaching, for Thales College, one of the sequences of classes in Western Civilization, I and four students, by chance all of them young men, discussed Machiavelli’s The Prince. It is utterly refreshing when you know, from the start,…
Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen was twice acquitted of hate speech charges for expressing a biblical view of marriage. She will now be dragged back to court after state prosecutors appealed the decision, according to a statement Friday from…
Nicaragua’s anti-Catholic regime rounded out 2023 with nearly 20 Catholic clerics imprisoned, earning sharp criticism, especially from the U.S. On New Year’s Eve, Fr. Gustavo Sandino Ochoa became the 15th priest abducted by President Daniel Ortega’s paramilitary police in December….
Mississippi’s Michael Cassidy stands charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for “vandalizing” the Satanic Temple’s display in the Iowa capitol. Well, there’s been a bunch of vandalizing going on, including that directed at a 25-foot-tall statue of a mounted Confederate general,…
The window that opened in 2019 to allow United Methodist churches to depart their embattled denomination closes in a week or so, at the end of the year, and at this late hour, approximately one-fourth of the member churches that…
