Many American liberals regard Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, as a right-wing extremist. For some years he has used a pledge against…
Pope Francis seems already to have introduced a new term into Catholic discourse: self-referential Church. At least, if he did not originate it, he has certainly…
According to a report today at the Weekly Standard‘s blog, a lobbyist for the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates argued, in a hearing with Florida legislators, in…
Over at First Things I have an article in defense of priestly celibacy. Not surprisingly, many commentators on the left took the occasion of Benedict’s resignation…
Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on California’s Proposition 8, which amends the State Constitution to define marriage only as a union between a man…
Francis’s papacy is not even three days old and the American mainstream media has already begun a campaign to damage his reputation. In fact, the effort…
Almost everybody was surprised today by the selection of Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as pope. It was surprising in the sense that he was not prominent on…