First Things RSS Feed - James Hitchcock https://www.firstthings.com/author/james-hitchcock en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:57:11 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/james-hitchcock 60 The Enemies of Religious Liberty https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/02/the-enemies-of-religious-liberty https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/02/the-enemies-of-religious-liberty Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0500 It is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court’s barely concealed hostility to the free exercise of religion, at least since the middle decades of the twentieth century. But in the long term, even more damage is likely to be done by the influence of ideas advocated by a cluster of political and legal theorists in the academy. For these writers, religious liberty itself is a pernicious idea.

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]]> A Tale of Two Bishops https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/06/a-tale-of-two-bishops https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/06/a-tale-of-two-bishops Mon, 01 Jun 1992 00:00:00 -0400 In the years 1975-76, Catholics attending Mass anywhere in the state of Montana would have heard the priest pray for “Paul, our Pope, and Eldon, our Bishop.” Apart from the fact that outside of Montana there has never been a Catholic bishop in the United States named Eldon, there was nothing surprising about this.

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