Dobbs is a decisive turning point on the road to securing an equal right to life for every human being, in the womb and out of it. It is the end of the beginning of the greatest civil rights struggle of our time. Continue Reading »
By overruling Roe, the Court has done the country a great service. We are relieved of the scandal—moral, legal, and political—that was the Roe/Casey order, under which our most fundamental law was interpreted as endorsing a right to kill the unborn. Continue Reading »
There can be no lasting concordat, no real peace treaty, between a genuinely holy people and Church on the one hand, and a world of material excess, destructive sexuality, exploitation of the poor, and industrial-scale homicide of unborn children on the other. Continue Reading »
Gun rights advocates and abortion rights advocates should both mourn the loss of life engendered by their absolutist approaches to their political causes. Continue Reading »
The progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new epoch in human history. Amid explosive growth during the industrial revolution, he thought we were on the cusp of material abundance. Marx argued that if we rejected the . . . . Continue Reading »
News that the Supreme Court may overturn one of the worst legal decisions in our nation’s history is welcome, but it cannot heal the harm already done by abortion culture. Continue Reading »
The speaker of the house now faces perhaps the most important choice of her career: party platform or life and fundamental human dignity. Continue Reading »
A law forcing Jews to attend Mass or Protestants to keep kosher would be imposing religion on others. Pro-life laws do no such thing. Continue Reading »
What the Church needs more than anything else is holiness. The renewal of the Church is not finally an issue of structures. It’s an issue of faith. Continue Reading »
Distorting the things of God for political purposes is yet another tactic in the creation of an alternative reality, as both Patriarch Kirill and an Episcopal priest have demonstrated. Continue Reading »