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Gays online were hootin’ and hollerin’ last week when Anita Bryant died. They danced on her grave, as they are wont to do. You may not remember Anita Bryant. At a tender age, she won Arthur Godfrey’s Amateur Hour talent contest, a huge deal at the time. She went on to win Miss Oklahoma in…
It generally isn’t charitable to say unkind things about people at their death. For me, that rule was especially challenging with the death of President Jimmy Carter a few weeks back. As a presidential historian who does much punditry, I dreaded Carter’s death because I knew I couldn’t avoid stating the obvious, namely, that he…
Wesley Smith is a pro-life bioethicist with the Discovery Institute who frequently writes in conservative publications like National Review. A recent essay was titled: “Assisted-Suicide Death Ceremonies Becoming Normalized.” People should not be surprised. In Canada, where getting a doctor to kill you (they call it “Medical Assistance in Dying,” MAID) has been legal since…
On December 28, 2024, Fr. Tom Pringle observed on 𝕏, “I’ve been at my parish for about 3 years. What I’ve seen in that time is a resurgence in Catholics going to confession.” I am the pastor of a parish with about 900 families, and I echo what Fr. Pringle said. This past Advent, I…
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on January 15, 1775, Giovanni Battista Sammartini passed away in Milan due to pneumonia. He was a musician to whom “a place of honor in the history of music is reserved not for his qualities as an opera composer or sacred music composer, but for having first sketched the…
By this point, most people have heard of the term “nones,” which refers to religiously unaffiliated individuals who claim to be agnostic, atheist, or “nothing in particular.” Have you ever considered that religious disaffiliation might be the very first step a person might take on the path to getting trapped in occult practices? A 2023…
The term “openness” is one of those flexible notions which, like those of “public order,” “good faith,” or “proportionality,” evade the exercise of definition. We know the important function of “standards” in legal technique. Legislators and judges deliberately use these words taken from ordinary language, the meaning of which varies according to the context and…
Above: Pope John Paul II during a general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in 1980. (CNS photo/Catholic Press Photo) Author’s note: the following article is based on a real epistolary exchange. Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, I am aware of traditionalist objections to the apparent disturbance of the order and hierarchy of the goods…
A pollster once made the statement that he had found in his work that voters were “very stupid.” A colleague tried to defuse the remark by saying the issue was that people answered opinion poll questions, “in the context of their ignorance.” The phrase came to mind when I learned that President Carter had requested…
Last week on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Mel Gibson defended the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, bringing the Shroud into the public eye once again. He’s not the only one defending Christ’s burial cloth. Dr. John Campbell, a prominent YouTube commentator on medical topics—especially on malpractice inherent in the Covid vaccination regime—recently changed course to…
