In Praise of the Supremes
COMMENTARY: The Supreme Court is the only one of the three branches of US government that is functioning properly.
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The SSPX Leadership Against Scripture and Tradition
COMMENTARY: Even if the Society of St. Pius X hits the brakes at the last moment and doesn’t commit formally schismatic acts, the grave problem posed by the SSPX will continue.
The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi
COMMENTARY: What can Catholics do for Jimmy Lai at the moment?
John Paul II and America
COMMENTARY: Spurred by his groundbreaking visit in 1979, the most influential Catholic in the 20th century had high hopes for the U.S.
![In his [2002] World Day of Peace message, John Paul II taught a truth many Catholics have seemingly forgotten: that ‘peace,’ in the classic Catholic sense of the term, is a matter of order, the order that is built through law and politics.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/2023041608044_75d11fdb96e18653aedf08d75a42f89e5c2313225a417aec6f1f8d73eb8c525f.jpg "In his [2002] World Day of Peace message, John Paul II taught a truth many Catholics have seemingly forgotten: that ‘peace,’ in the classic Catholic sense of the term, is a matter of order, the order that is built through law and politics.")
The Peace We Can Make
COMMENTARY: The pursuit of peace in the Middle East reminded me of words I wrote 24 years ago.
The Culture of Death Loses One — for the Moment
COMMENTARY: Chesterton observed, after the defeat of…the 1913 Mental Deficiency Bill to sterilise those classified as ‘feeble-minded’ or ‘moral defectives’ that ‘the dazed dupes will be back again.’
Centesimus Annus at 35
COMMENTARY: Thirty-five years later, Centesimus Annus still offers a powerful warning about freedom detached from virtue and moral culture.
In Thanksgiving for the Gift of Baptism
COMMENTARY: In baptism, we are joined to a ‘great cloud of witnesses’ spanning time and eternity.
‘Ecclesiacide,’ Then and Now
COMMENTARY: What Stalin began in Lviv in 1946 — an attempt to liquidate a Church — persists today in Putin’s war on Ukraine.
