Matthew Schmitz

What’s going on with the Catholic left? Michael Sean Winters drew wide notice for his break with the Obama administration over its contraceptive and abortifacient mandate last week, and many eyebrows were raised when the fiercely liberal Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles began denouncing the . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Kazin and Russell Arben Fox  have critiqued Newt Gingrich’s claim that “The centerpiece of this campaign . . . is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky. ” Like them, I find many contemporary denunciations of Saul Alinsky to be unhinged. . . . . Continue Reading »

Is Europe More Pro-Life Than America? Austin Ruse, Catholic Thing Anti-Muslim Law Wielded Against Jews Elli Fischer, Jewish Ideas Daily HHS Mandate and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Ed Whelan, Bench Memos Social Justice Starts with Communities Adam J. MacLeod,  Public Discourse Vatican . . . . Continue Reading »

Bishops Betrayed David Gibson, Religion News Service An Interview with Mustafa Akyol Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches Winning Hispanic Evangelicals Gabriel Salguero, Washington Post The Cornerstone of Religious Freedom Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Wall Street Journal I’m with the Amish on This . . . . Continue Reading »

The Art of the Non-Apology Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune The First Sexual Revolution Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Guardian Social Conservatism for Millenial Voters Deirdre Cooper, Public Discourse The Caging of America Adam Gopnik, New Yorker Could Pro-Lifers Retake the Democratic Party? Mark Stricherz, . . . . Continue Reading »

De Botton’s Anesthetic Atheism Ned Resnikoff Romney’s Tithing Mark Hosenball and David Henry,  Reuters Disability and Joy Charles J. Chaput, Public Discourse Liberal Jurists on  Roe v. Wade Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner Bureaucracy’s Creep Against Life Michael . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert P. George puts the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate in perspective: Interestingly, Obama and his people have been willing to break the hearts of those on the left when it comes Guantanamo, rendition, basic procedural rights of detainees and those accused . . . . Continue Reading »

WaPo’s Lazy Critique of the March for Life Mark Judge, Real Clear Religion The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe Michael Stokes Paulsen, Public Discourse Don’t Tell A Muslim to Give up Sharia Harris Zafar, Washington Post The Next Dr. Kevorkian Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post Push for . . . . Continue Reading »

Richard Doerflinger, the USCCB’s great legislative ace, offers a sobering addendum in the  comments  to Matt Franck’s post: One small cavil: The contraceptive mandate policy will not be deferred a year. It will apply this year, as originally planned, to the vast majority of . . . . Continue Reading »

Polish Pop Star Gets Bible Fine Scott Maniquet,  National Post Religion Is Divisive and Conservative—-and A Very Good Thing Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, Huffington Post Europeans Opt for De-baptism Elizabeth Bryan, Religion News Service Why Tibetan Monks are Setting Themselves on Fire Lois . . . . Continue Reading »