Notre Dame to NCAA: Play Sports, Not Politics
Universities, not athletic conferences, should set policies on social and moral issues of the day, argues Holy Cross Father John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president.
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Are Religious-Freedom Advocates ‘Christian Supremacists’?
NEWS ANALYSIS: A new report from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and related comments by its chairman, have sown fears that people of faith are being smeared as bigots.
Russell Shaw: View From a Veteran US Church Watcher
Author explains the lessons learned from past Church leaders who struggled to establish a beachhead in an often hostile land, while critiquing the blind spots of the assimilationists that still haunt us today.
In Memoriam: Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016)
NEWS ANALYSIS: The longtime conservative Catholic activist, who is credited with organizing the grassroots campaign that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, died Sept. 5 at the age of 92.
Murder of Mississippi Nuns Stirs Questions, Revives Death-Penalty Debate
The families of Sisters Margaret Held and Paul Merrill have said they would ask local prosecutors not to seek the death penalty for confessed murderer Rodney Earl Sanders.
Not ‘Born That Way’: New Scientific Analysis Questions ‘LGBT’ Orthodoxies
A comprehensive new survey about sexuality and gender, undertaken by leading medical experts, concludes that key theories are unsupported by scientific evidence.
How to Combat the New Intolerance, ‘a Rival Faith, Rooted in the Sexual Revolution’
Author Mary Eberstadt talks about the enemies of religious freedom in her latest book: ‘No one’s religious freedom is safe when anti-Christian ideologues write the rules.’
Trump and Social Conservatives Form a Marriage of Necessity
NEWS ANALYSIS: GOP delegates gave Trump a standing ovation at the close of the 2016 convention in Cleveland, but Sen. Ted Cruz’s refusal to endorse his onetime rival hinted at problems ahead as the battle shifts to the general election
Bishop Robert Barron Brings Beauty of Catholicism to a World in Need
Bishop Barron reflects on his new ministry as a bishop in the Golden State, his friendship with the late Cardinal George of Chicago, new plans for his global apostolate and the timely subject of his latest book.
