House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent run-in with San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is only the latest in a long line of clashes she has had with U.S. bishops. Her record of openly rejecting key moral teachings of the Catholic Church is extensive, calling into question her repeated assertions that she is a "devout Catholic." Here is [...]
The clash between gay rights and the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of religion has been occurring at record speed over the past decade. The latest iteration involves a Colorado-based web designer, Lorie Smith, who has launched a preemptive strike against the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA): it would require her to promote [...]
For the first time in American history, we have a president who is championing the cause of child abuse. On June 15, the White House released a statement saying President Biden is issuing an executive order seeking to ban "conversion therapy," the practice that allows someone who has "transitioned" to the opposite sex to reverse the [...]
The recent spate of Catholic churches that have been vandalized, as well as the bombing of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers (many of which are run by Catholics), are not a coincidence. Nor is the attempted murder of Brett Kavanaugh, the Catholic Supreme Court Justice. They reflect a deep-seated animus against the right of orthodox Catholics to [...]
In May, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul directed the Division of Criminal Justice Services to coordinate $10 million in funding for "safety and security capital grants for abortion providers and reproductive health centers to further secure their facilities and ensure the safety of patients and staff." No abortion clinics have been firebombed in New York State [...]
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are both self-described "devout Catholics." Given the rash of attacks on Catholics and Catholic Churches, it would be reasonable to expect that they would condemn these acts of anti-Catholicism. Yet neither has said a word. It is not as though they are indifferent to bigotry—they are quick to [...]
A memo issued in May by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on abortion protesters warned that in the wake of the leak of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, abortion rights extremists "on both sides" merit scrutiny. Bill Donohue responded by saying, "There is no evidence upon which this unwarranted accusation can be [...]
Fr. Virgil Blum, who founded the Catholic League in 1973, must be looking down from heaven with a smile: the paramount issue for him was school choice. On June 21, that movement took a big step forward. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that it is unconstitutional for Maine to provide public funds for private schools [...]
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to affirm the religious rights of a football coach who prayed after the game on the field. This was an important victory for religious liberty, as well as for freedom of speech. For seven years, Bremerton High School football coach Joe Kennedy prayed after a game on the 50-yard line. No [...]
In 1973, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion in its Roe v. Wade decision, Catholics were nearly alone in their opposition to it. There were some elements in the Lutheran Church, and in the Orthodox Jewish community, who opposed it, but most Protestants and Jews supported the ruling. As a major religious group, Catholics were the [...]
