When people get educated, get a job, get married, and then have babies, and in that order, their lives go dramatically better. George Will wrote yesterday about the “Success Sequence.” Look at what happens when young people follow this route:…

Jorge Bergoglio is the first Jesuit to become pope and may end up the last Jesuit to be pope, in light of the havoc that he is wreaking upon the Church. But who knows? After all, he is stacking the…

That hang-over from the mid-1960s, the theology of bad taste, has opened shop in Detroit. It began with a letter from Archbishop Allen Henry Vigeron to the people of the Detroit Archdiocese entitled “Unleash the Gospel.” Wasn’t there anyone in…

I am a Jew. All of my ancestors have been Jews since Judaism was founded almost 6,000 years ago on the belief of a monotheistic God. I pray in Hebrew every morning and every night. And I am deeply, cruelly,…

By now you may have come across the controversy spun up over the weekend when Rep. Clay Higgins, the new congressman from Louisiana’s 3rd District, sent an outraged reaction to the London Bridge jihadist attacks over Facebook. The bulk of…

So: more police on the streets; better intelligence; better security arrangements; less nonsense when it comes to toleration of the outrageous. The British are doing what they must and can to ward off future terrorist-related catastrophes. It may help. It…

Sunday June 4 is opening day of the East Lansing, Michigan, farmers market. But if you’re in the neighborhood you won’t be able to buy fresh produce from farmers Steve and Bridget Tennes. Although the Tennes family has been a…

George Neumayr’s vitally important new book, The Political Pope: How Pope Francis Is Delighting the Liberal Left and Abandoning Conservatives, is a wake-up call for anyone who may have been following the Vatican on mainstream media but hasn’t had time…

One of Pope Francis’s close friends, Argentine Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, can always be counted on to blurt out what is whispered within the halls of the Vatican. He didn’t disappoint yesterday, allowing himself a series of demagogic remarks at Trump’s…

Tolerant, kind, generous, forbearing — none of this you’d call our everyday Islamic mass murderer. One thing you may justly call him: discerning. He knows the stakes in the war on terror. He knows the degree to which the Christian,…