Social Justice

Boy Scout With Down Syndrome and Autism Stripped of His Badges

By  Micaiah Bilger,  Mar 21, 2018 A Utah family is advocating for their son with Down syndrome after a decision by the Boy Scouts to reject the teen’s merit badges. The Autism Site reports Logan Blythe, 15, of Utah, has Down syndrome and autism; and his local scout troop made... read more

Why The Pro-Life Movement Will Live Long and Prosper

by Mary Eberstadt, First Things January 23, 2018 We’re asked today to reflect on the future of the pro-life movement in an increasingly secular age. A few years ago, I wrote a book called How the West Really Lost God, about the phenomenon called “secularization” and the various... read more

Climate-Change Policies Can Be Punishing for the Poor

America should learn from Europe’s failure to protect the needy while reducing carbon emissions. By Bjorn Lomborg, January 5, 2018 Freezing temperatures in the U.S. Northeast have pushed up heating costs, creating serious stress for many Americans. Although the rich world’s energy poor... read more

Top Papal Adviser & Critic of Wealthy Embroiled in Allegations of Financial Misconduct

By Steve Skojec, December 21, 2017 A top papal adviser known for his tirades against capitalism and the wealthy is under investigation by the Vatican after reports that he has been receiving over $40,000 US per month from the Catholic University of Tegucigalpa and had allegedly invested amounts... read more

Draining the CCHD swamp

By Phil Lawler | Nov 27, 2017 Every year, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Catholics around the US are asked to contribute to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). The annual collection prompts an annual controversy, in which critics of the CCHD point to the grants that the... read more

Will U.S. Catholic Bishops Choose Life?

By John Zmirak, Published on November 12, 2017 We don’t look to The Wall Street Journal for its religion reporting. But a recent piece stands out. It shows American Catholicism at a crossroads. It’s rare that a single decision decides the future of a church in a nation. But we face such a... read more

Pope Francis vs. His Predecessors

BY GEORGE NEUMAYR, OCTOBER 13, 2017 It is his view of the death penalty, not theirs, that departs from Catholic teaching. For decades, liberal Catholics have relativized Catholic dogma and dogmatized relativism. Pope Francis is the champion of this movement. One moment, he is pushing... read more

With No Recourse Against Ecclesial Injustice, Professor Seifert Turns to Legal Proceedings

By Maike Hickson, September 23, 2017 The recent dismissal of Professor Josef Seifert – the prominent Catholic philosopher who has been punished by his ordinary, Archbishop Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández of Granada, Spain, for publishing polite questions with regard to Amoris Laetitia... read more

Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine

The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood and articulated. By James Kalb, Ecclesia et Civitas, September 6, 2017 The usual view among Catholics is that public... read more

Saving Magisterial Truth

BY CHRISTOPHER MANION, July 15, 2017 Since the election of Donald Trump, officials at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have commended the president’s actions on six specific issues: religious liberty, the HHS mandate, UN abortion funding, Planned Parenthood funding, the Mexico... read more

Top Papal Adviser Insults the Four Dubia Cardinals

By Maike Hickson, April 20, 2017 Several Catholic outlets around the world – including Infovaticana and Chiesa e postconsilio – have reported that Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, coordinator of the pope’s “council of nine“, has made some condescending and disrespectful remarks... read more