Robert P. George

First Things friend Francis Beckwith of Baylor University recently reprimanded a Facebook friend for sending him a secretly made video of a Mormon temple service. Professor Beckwith rightly described this violation of trust and act of disrespect for others as shameful. People of different faiths . . . . Continue Reading »

Some Catholics are disturbed that Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, will be delivering a benediction at a convention at which speaker after speaker will vehemently condemn belief in the right to life of the child in the womb and belief in marriage as the conjugal union of husband . . . . Continue Reading »

A public notary in Brazil has registered a three-person partnership as a legally recognized civil union . Brazilians are waiting to see how other public officials treat the notary’s action. The notary, Claudia do Nascimento Domingues, who serves the city of Tupa, “said the . . . . Continue Reading »

Do Rawlsian principles of “political liberalism” demand the legal recognition of same-sex romantic partnerhips as marriages? I suspect that many of Rawls’s conservative critics, as well as his liberal supporters, would suppose that the answer must be yes. (For the conservative . . . . Continue Reading »

Nathan Harden’s new book ” Sex and God at Yale ” will be of interest to anyone who is concerned about the moral state of campus culture at colleges and universities in the US.  Here’s my dust jacket endorsement: The ideology of sexual liberation that is the lasting . . . . Continue Reading »

It looks like the Democratic Party’s leadership has decided to make the Party’s fierce commitment to protecting abortion against meaningful legal restrictions of any kind and extending its availability a, if not  the , central theme of its national convention . I’ll . . . . Continue Reading »

The entire Catholic community—-in Germany and throughout the world—- must stand with Rabbi Goldberg and speak out against his prosecution for performing circumcisions of male infants in compliance with their parents’ wishes and Jewish law.  The threats to religious liberties . . . . Continue Reading »

It is only with reluctance that I even comment on this stomach-turning video. But it seems to me that it must not be passed over in silence or ignored by Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the United States. It is important for us not to avert our gaze from the fact that the vile and, it . . . . Continue Reading »

Some conservatives, I’m one, recognize that there are people on the right whose conduct and rhetoric contribute to the poisoning of our political discourse, but believe that people on the left are much worse.  Some liberals acknowledge that there are people on the left who . . . . Continue Reading »

Katrina Lantos Swett and I have published an op-ed piece in the  Moscow Times  on issues of religious freedom in Russia. Katrina is President of the Lantos Foundation (named for her late father, Congressman Tom Lantos) and chairs the U.S. Commission on International Religious . . . . Continue Reading »