Ecclesia et Civitas
Is America a revolutionary ideological state?
We find ourselves in an increasingly ideological society whose ideology is ever more anti-human, anti-Catholic, and compulsory. […]
Supreme Court
Features
Archbishop Naumann: “If the Church is silent on the destruction of life, we’re being negligent”
The recently elected USCCB’s head of the Committee of Pro-Life Activities discusses his many years of service in the pro-life cause, preaching about abortion, pro-abortion Catholic […]
Analysis
Who are the friends of religious liberty?
A breakdown of who is siding with who in the “cake case,” Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, scheduled for oral arguments in the Supreme […]
The Dispatch
SCOTUS and the “Reproductive FACT Act”
The Supreme Court will soon be hearing arguments in a case about whether or not the State of California can force pregnancy counseling centers to post […]
The Dispatch
Fencing with bigots
…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once imagined itself […]
The Dispatch
From a Lutheran playground to a path through anti-Catholic bigotry
Will a preschool kids’ playground turn out to be the path that leads to ending a historic form of discrimination against church-sponsored schools in America? For the moment, the best answer to that question is: […]
The Dispatch
The new conservative legal mainstream—and why the Left is worried
Senators Chuck Schumer and Patrick Leahy claimed that newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was not in the “legal mainstream.” They were referring to the “living Constitution” approach to constitutional interpretation. That interpretative approach, […]
The Dispatch
Après Gorsuch le deluge
Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater? Are you tired of the members of the “world’s greatest deliberative body” playing “Gotcha!” games that would embarrass […]