When the current session of the British Parliament ends this spring, the nation will abruptly bring to a close a 700-year institution. On March 10, the House of Commons voted to abolish the hereditary lords in the House of Lords. The effort ends a process started in 1999 by then-Prime Minister Tony … Read more
It took over seven years, but he finally got the press conference he always craved. Back in 2019 (!), we reported how Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha was among several AGs across the country seeking to replicate the public relations triumph that Pennsylvania’s AG Josh Shapiro garnered in 2018 with his blockbuster “grand jury report” … Read more
Visitors to El Paso, Texas’s Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on March 1, 2026, must have been startled when thumbing through the parish bulletin. On page six, they found there a reprint of a poster promoting the “March and Vigil for Human Life and an End to Mass Deportations.” An Outrageous Image The poster … Read more
A new film describes the treatment of Catholic priests caught in the crossfire of the four-year-long war between Russia and Ukraine. No Priests Left is a story of deportation and torture. “Priests and pastors were arrested. They were interrogated. They were beaten. They were held in … torture chambers,” Father Oleksandr Bohomaz … Read more
In modern American politics, unfortunately, some candidates for office seem to believe that they can gain election by calling upon those who cause disorder. A recent example was a proposal by Rogelio Martinez, one of five candidates running for mayor of Long Beach, California. In a recent video, Mr. Martinez asked local … Read more
Two sets of Catholic parents, in league with a pair of public school teachers, are turning back the transgender movement’s timetable. Six Concerned Americans Challenge the State of California These six committed individuals brought their case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Their argument was elegant in its simplicity—parents play the most important … Read more
Over the last decade, Canada has become ever more like a dystopian Marxist state and less like a free Western country. Its leaders seem to be faithfully following a maxim of Joseph Stalin, “Ideas are more powerful than guns.” Indeed, ideas are powerful, and Canadian officials are taking care that contrary ideas … Read more
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges—the case that forced all states to acknowledge, facilitate and conduct homosexual “marriages.” To its supporters, and many of its opponents, the Supreme Court’s decision appeared final. The Rubicon had been crossed. The Court had … Read more
The debate over the hiring of Prof. Susan Ostermann as director of Notre Dame’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies is over. It triggered a massive uproar that surprised many by its intensity. In the end, the appointment was a carefully managed and measured defeat for the school’s administration, which was … Read more
“In the end, Marx’s tragic vision is one where the descent is final—an abyss where revolution consumes its own, and redemption is neither sought nor granted. It is a world abandoned to its illusions, where humans, having cast off the divine, are left to wander in the wreckage of their own making.” … Read more