Katherine Infantine

“My youngest son and I just finished a road trip,” says Peter J. Leithart in today’s column . ”I think it was somewhere between Wisconsin and Minnesota that it began to dawn on me that . . . in, with, and under the teeming diversity, we are one country.” Social . . . . Continue Reading »

The Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal “does not solve the problem of mass illegal immigration, but instead extends the problem,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column . The Gang of Eight bill would create  a laboring class—some tied to particular jobs—that . . . . Continue Reading »

“After twenty-five years Richard Land has retired as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,” says Mark D. Tooley in today’s column . In his good-bye to the Southern Baptist Convention in Houston on June 11, Land declared: . . . . Continue Reading »

“In February, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edith Jones gave a controversial speech defending and endorsing the American system of capital punishment,” says Stephanos Bibas in today’s column . She was accused of “compromising her judicial impartiality”  The . . . . Continue Reading »

Priests’ councils “treat parishes as square holes into which pastors are fitted like interchangeable pegs,” says George Weigel in today’s column . There are “good parishes” and “tough parishes”; good parishes are given out as rewards; tough parishes are . . . . Continue Reading »

Ellery Schempp, at 16 years of age in 1956, stayed in his seat while the rest of his high school class stood to recite the Lord’s prayer; he flipped through the Koran while his homeroom teacher recited ten verses from the Bible. What began as a quite protest in his Philadelphia high school . . . . Continue Reading »

“Father’s Day is to neckties what St. Patrick’s Day is to beer,” says R. R. Reno in today’s column . The commercialization almost certainly distorts our proper impulse to honor our mothers and fathers, but in the main it’s a good thing. Those tee-totaling matronly . . . . Continue Reading »

“Will Davis Campbell, who died earlier this month at age 88,” says Timothy George in today’s column , “was one of the last surviving icons of the civil rights movement.” Wherever violence erupted or trouble threatened—at lunch counters, boycotts, voting lines, in . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro-lifers pray for a reversal of Roe v. Wade , but Wesley Smith in today’s column asks, “what if the overturn comes  from the other direction ?” Roe  and its progeny cases, such as  Planned Parenthood v. Casey , left room for pro-life advocates to deploy subversive . . . . Continue Reading »

  “Think Being a Teen Parent Won’t Cost You?” beg the NYC subways ads . When the puffy-eyed girl says, “Honestly Mom . . . chances are he won’t stay with you. What happens to me?” most New Yorkers will not take it as a plea for abstinence. We hear from the . . . . Continue Reading »