In 1960, then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy set a standard for Catholic politicians seeking federal office in a nation still viscerally anti-Catholic. In a speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts […]
I have heard them before, many times before. They were once true. But when I heard these three old assumptions spoken recently by Catholic dads and a priest, they rang hollow. They are just not […]
Let’s begin with the obvious. No social conservative could possibly justify voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. They are pro-abortion extremists, as Ryan Anderson shows in an article on Harris at First Things and Dan McLaughlin shows in […]
Being a feminist, I don’t like watching women boxing at the Olympics. (I’ll explain this more in a moment. However, I followed with interest the debate over the Italian boxer Angela Carini pulling out after […]
I remember when senior officials from the then-newly created Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See—later restyled the “Dicastery” for Communication—came to do a meet-and-greet at The Thing That Used To Be Vatican Radio. It […]
A centerpiece of the much-derided opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics has rippled the pond of an all-too-common Catholic complacence. Catholics are sadly used to being led like lambs to the slaughter on the altar […]
This is “NFP Week” (July 21st-27th), which means there will inevitably be a lot of online discourse and discussion about Natural Family Planning (NFP), contraception, and how humans, in a limited capacity, interact with the […]
George Weigel’s recent essay titled “Why Just War Theory Always Matters” underscores the abiding importance of that principle. Just War Theory (JWT) is essential to Catholic (and other) public officials seeking to operate in an […]
It is impossible not to admire the resilience and fighting spirit with which Donald Trump responded—literally within moments—to the failed attempt to take his life. And that he is among the luckiest of politicians is […]
It turns out that “shitposting” is a technical term. There’s a great literature, approaching a whole subfield of academic communications studies, treating the practice of tossing cheap and easy provocations into digital space in order […]
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