Cuomo, through his murderous support for abortion legislation, coupled with his consistent invocation of his own Catholic identity, has crossed over from private failing to public witness against the faith. Continue Reading »
Condemnations of Bishop George Bell served the purpose of a Church trying hard to look decisive and stern about priestly abuse—a problem it has in fact handled very badly. Continue Reading »
Bishop Foys and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz lived out our elite’s moral ideal by condemning their own children in the interest of self-realization and social order. Continue Reading »
Catholic ecclesiastics and Catholic intellectuals don’t seem to understand that the secular liberal world, rather than willing to make a place for them if they go along with secular liberal pieties, is in a war against them. Continue Reading »
The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church, but the subject once engaged some of Catholicism’s finest minds. Continue Reading »
The March for Life has become more a celebration of pro-life energies than a commemoration of abortion victims. Continue Reading »
At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »
We rarely endorse everything we read. Sometimes we read works with which we strenuously disagree. Continue Reading »
Though the Sisters' legal struggles seemed to have ended in 2016 and 2017, they are now enduring death by a thousand legal cuts at the state level, enabled by the federal courts and their Obama-appointed judges. Continue Reading »
G. E. Moore helped dig the chasm that gapes, for good and ill, between the Victorians and us.
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