The first post-Dobbs academic year is arriving and abortion advocates and even some universities have assured students that they will support abortion access in every creative way possible. 

“Nationalism” and “national” are words embraced by some on the American Right recently. But what do they mean and are they compatible with Christianity? 

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the abortion debate back to the states, pro-abortion zealots have been in total free fall. One desperate attempt to undermine the court’s Dobbs decision is to weaponize religious freedom in the service of the cult of abortion.

Charles De Koninck is known for participating in an acrimonious debate about the character of the common good and Catholic personalism in the mid-1940s. This is unfortunate because that debate clarified little, and it distracted attention from De Koninck’s important perspective on modernity. We need De Koninck’s philosophy of nature because it can aid us […]

The Economist recently ran a lead article arguing that if the Catholics “want to reduce the scourge of sexual abuse by priests, they should demand an end to the rule requiring priestly celibacy.” I found myself checking the year of publication. Surely this must have been an article from 20 years ago. But no: In the same […]

“Is the Catholic Church under attack?” reads the headline of a recent article by Slate’s Molly Olmstead.  Why does she have to ask? Churches are being vandalized all over the country. There have even been attempts to burn them down. Yet Olmstead blames the “Catholic right” for its “premature or recklessly dramatic” concerns – though she concedes that “to be fair, […]

The Dobbs decision has provided yet another opportunity for commentators deeply unfamiliar with Catholic theology to distort the church’s teaching on abortion. The church, we are told at CNN, the New Yorker, and widely read outlets, only recently condemned abortion. It’s crucial to set the record straight.