Matthew Schmitz

Welcome to the museum—now who wants a drink? Continue Reading »

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is in the midst of a bare-knuckle battle over whether Catholic schools can require Catholic teachers to be . . . well . . . Catholic. Recently, anonymous parties hired Sam Singer—a high-billing Better-Call-Saul-style PR man renowned for . . . . Continue Reading »

In an interview with Panorama magazine, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the two men whose business partnership—and one-time romantic partnership—lies behind one of the world's great fashion powerhouses, have declared that “The only family is the traditional one.”“The family . . . . Continue Reading »

Jean Danielou died in disgrace. In 1974, at age sixty-nine, the noted advisor to the Second Vatican Council who had been made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI was found dead in the home of a Parisian prostitute. France’s Catholic bishops, trying to calm rumors, published a letter in Le Monde saying that . . . . Continue Reading »

Manjot Singh, Sofia Moreno Haq, Fabienne Roth, and Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed are the four UCLA students who believed that being Jewish rendered their fellow student Rachel Beyda incapable of serving on the judicial board of the university's student council. At a February meeting, they asked questions . . . . Continue Reading »

I follow both David Gibson, a reporter for Religion News Service, and Mollie Hemingway, a writer for the Federalist, on Twitter. Like many of those who do, I have noticed a pattern in which Hemingway sends out a tweet that is not addressed to Gibson to which he nonetheless replies—not to . . . . Continue Reading »

The “Director of Civil and Human Rights” for the United Methodist Church, Bill Mefford, posted a picture to Twitter yesterday mocking the pro-life marchers. Mefford, who works for the church’s lobby arm, the General Board of Church and Society, ridiculed the marchers by posting a picture of . . . . Continue Reading »

Responsibility—in speech as in love. Continue Reading »

My favorite songs that weren’t released in 2014, but that I first heard—or got into—this year. Continue Reading »

Should we stress or suppress what makes us distinctive? Continue Reading »