Austin Ruse

Some years ago I published a piece at Catholic Thing about the conversion of Robert Bork to the Catholic Church. I recall on that day, which I was honored to attend, Father C. J. McCloskey said Bork had run almost the entire gamut of sacraments; baptism, first confession, first communion, . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a remarkable story about a mother who struggles with her mentally ill teenager. She cannot find medical help for him. Her story resonates in these post-Newtown days. I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am . . . . Continue Reading »

Ashley McGuire has an interesting piece up at the Public Discourse about how conservatives let progressives frame the social issues during the last campaign, which was absolutely true. It is clear now that Mitt Romney took Mitch Daniels disastrous advice and called a truce on social issues. McGuire . . . . Continue Reading »

Social conservative darling and faithful Catholic Bobby Jindal has a piece in the Wall Street Journal (behind a pay-wall) this morning agreeing with the recent pronouncement of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that birth control pills should be available without a . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) hosted a tightly orchestrated Global Youth Forum in the run up to the twentieth anniversary of the Cairo Conference on Population and Development. UNFPA anticipated nine hundred youth participants, including a contingent from the Girl Scouts and Girl . . . . Continue Reading »

Rod Dreher thinks the fight to stop same-sex marriage is lost. I think he is wrong about that but Rod is annoyed that Glenn Beck—-who has thrown in the towel on marriage, maybe he never had the towel in the first place—-gets things so wrong about marriage and the law and the . . . . Continue Reading »

At Mirror of Justice, Professor Rick Garnett of Notre Dame Law gives an update on Father Robert Araujo, S.J., and the cancer he has battled for many years. Longtime MOJ-contributor, thoughtful scholar, wonderful priest, and good friend Fr. Robert Araujo, S.J., has given me permission to ask all . . . . Continue Reading »

LGBT advocates like to compare themselves to African Americans in what they claim is discrimination practiced against them. We know that African Americans were systematically left out of much of American life. Many were locked into crushing poverty that could be tied directly to their inability to . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the great pro-life victories internationally over the past twenty years has been the defeat of the attempt to make abortion a universally recognized right through U.N. documents. Abortion is not mentioned in a single hard-law treaty and therefore has not risen to the legal level of a “human right.” … Continue Reading »

UPI reports that the government of Rajasthan, which is the largest geographical state in India, is running a very aggressive sterilization campaign to try and lower the highest fertility rate in India of 3.3 children per woman. Rajasthan has a highly specific and therefore rather creepy goal of . . . . Continue Reading »