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Bishops’ outcries and silences; Don’t expand entitlements - eliminate them
Gov. Shapiro and the Dems’ midterm strategy; Fr. Mankowski and the SJs; The Inklings, the Crusades, and more!
The roots of conservatism; the magnanimity of Dolly Parton; and more!
Save our institutions and our freedom from Woke; the laity vs. the bishops; a book about Lyme disease and biological warfare
Gov. Healey vs. the Church: excommunication or...? Principles and prudence in politics and saying what you mean.
Peaceful assembly underlies all other 1A rights; Florida bishops rightly rebuked on vaccine mandates
The Fauci Diary hearings
Modesty and complementarity; Euthanasia and organ harvesting
The bishops' academic scandal; ACB, leftist violence, and the ordinary person
St. John Henry Newman on the Ordo Amoris; are bishops starting to crack on the TLM? and more!
Freedom of religion? A statue and the border wall
Bring back taboos; Corporate "Pride" displays are compelled speech
One-step Vatican reform; the non-SSPX crisis
Spanish Bishops challenge Amoris Laetitia; will Pope Tawadros move the Catholic Church away from gay blessings? And wokeness comes for classic mystery novels!
Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's document on AI
SCOTUS and the abortion pill; Pope Leo and AI
The SSPX and "the State of Necessity"; Daycare's deceptions; a 250th book for all
How to think about the origins of the cosmos
Phil on the US-UK-Vatican "Special Relationship"; Leila: surrogacy is evil and already illegal; bees & books!
Are we still on Flight 93; Measles; Democrats, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and you
President Trump v. Pope Leo; Dumbarton Oaks and Beverley Nichols
How Boston's forced desegregation busing led to nationwide judicial tyranny today; Easter conversion trends analyzed; and more!
Supreme Court free speech cases you haven't heard of; the death of infamous abortionist, Kermit Gosnell; playing bridge with our grandchildren
Interview: Katy Faust on why the "Same Sex Marriage" Obergefell ruling must -- and can -- be overturned
Vatican mistrial analysis; the wrongest man in history; Carrie Gress' Something Wicked review
La Trappe monastery and the Economy of Salvation; Christian Deaths in Lebanon
Just War in Iran? SCOTUS hands down landmark decision for parental rights; and more!
The challenge of the SSPX; The Cristeros and Just War
Notre Dame University offense (not football!); Marco Rubio's speech; and more!
How to repeal Obergefell; Synodality fatigue; Our favorite history books, military and otherwise!
China has a demographics problem; AI will teach your children trash; books and more!
Alex Pretti, Minneapolis, and confusion about civil unrest, excessive force, gun rights, and First Amendment freedoms
Thoughts on a few prelates and their pronouncements -- and discreditable ties; Greenland, NATO, and Trump; and more!
Minneapolis once more on the fault line
Cardinals' consistory; Diocesan conflict; Venezuela: Just War? Monroe Doctrine?
Daycare fraud: bad, but also inevitable; what to know when someone on the right gains "strange new respect"; and more!
Demographics, Wokeness: Baby Boomers; and the Lost Generation of straight white men
MA priest desecrates Nativity display; Vatican issues monogamy document; China's underground Church ignored
Pope Leo's trip to Turkey; 10 children confirmed dead from the mRNA shot, breaking open the narrative; and more!
Our exasperating bishops; Why we don't recommend giving to the Campaign for Human Development; and more!
Honoring -- or just humoring -- veterans; Scotus won't hear Kim Davis case in Obergefell and that's okay; and more!
Fear of having babies at 40; Vatican oddly weighs in on Mary's titles; and more!
Catholics are suffering in Nigeria and China; bottle-feeding as a cultural norm led to disaster; and more!
Helen Andrews' The Great Feminization - and how we stand to lose the rule of law and everything else
Priest survey results; Traditional Latin Mass-goers left out in the cold; and more!
Jay Jones: violence was how leftism was going to end; Just War and Cardinal Parolin; and more!
Cardinal Cupich hides behind the seamless garment; healthcare isn't what Democrats want us to think it is; Joseph Lawler on American house ownership; and more!
The Creed and Charlie Kirk; Cardinal Cupich's divisiveness; and more!
Charlie Kirk, 1st Amendment rights, violence, and "hate speech"; A Dickensian trout; the Lawlers go to dinner and a lecture!
The natural law principle behind rejecting vaccine mandates; what fresh hell is "circulatory death"; the Lawlers go to the Sterling Fair
Phil: Pope Leo's meeting with Fr. James Martin SJ; Leila: CDC firings, Minnesota shooting; and some chitchat about Animal Farm, a tradwife article we didn't appear in, and more!
Prohibition, the society-changing event you don't much think about; Why are Republicans so stupid; and more!
Phil predicts the outcome of the Ukraine/Russia peace process; Leila predicts Dent & Scratch Baby Market; St. Black Elk? and more!
A challenge to the Supreme Court's Same Sex Marriage Ruling? Our civilization’s death wish; and more!
Climate change realism; taxpayers not burdened with IVF support after all; a bad bill in California; and more!
"Massacre" in Detroit; Pharma funds assault on parental rights; and more!
Israeli forces strike Catholic parish in Gaza; HHS seeks transparency in organ harvesting, cites "sanctity of life"
News roundup: NATO; a new test for King Solomon; demographic winter; Department of Education: bye-bye!; and more!
Papal directive on the Traditional Latin Mass seems to have been based on a fraud; Medical groups sue RFK Jr. and HHS; books, and more!
Phil: Can bombing Iran satisfy just-war criteria? Leila: Democratic Socialism is not an expression of Catholic Social Teaching
The importance of the 3% resistance; conscience; the bishops on immigration; and more!
The LA riots; the FACE Repeal and Protect Children’s Innocence Acts; Planet Narnia
What Pride Month vs. the Sacred Heart really means; signs of hope in the Church' and more!
Harvard vs. America; Bishop Martin's plan to shut down the faithful's voices; and more!
Interview with Robert Royal on his new book, "Martyrs of the New Millennium"; Mother on life support to save her baby; Joe Biden's cancer; and more!
Pope Leo; the academic origin of crazy ideas; and more!
"Mental Load" and that old feminist trope; Washington State law aims at Catholics; the abortion pill again; Vatican finances; and much more!
Phil and Leila delve into details of the conclave and the Cardinals; a new study on the abortion pill's dangers
The death of the pope: What to expect this week; the Eye of Sauron turns on homeschooling; and more!
The propaganda of eugenics; the Eucharist as a historical event; books we're reading, and more!
The two swords of a peaceful and just society; Reps. Petterson and Luna embarrass women everywhere; Andrew Jackson, and more!
Entertainment pushes destructive ideology; Catholic Charities vs. Wisconsin; The best way to handle a Black Mass according to experts (us); and more!
The Supreme Court needs to settle the judicial activism crisis; We were duped by "quality time"; Delightful: Prayers from the Ark & The Creature's’ Choir
Is measles panic using the same playbook as the coronavirus? How much synodality can we take? And various doings at our house
Just War Theory; NIH Nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya promises a huge pro-life win; A book from our shelves: The Core Curriculum
Euthanasia and IVF share death-dealing control issues; why embryo "adoption" is not a good idea; the shocking truth about bishops, money, and Church demographics -- and more!
Who is running Catholic dioceses? What the IVF Executive Order on IVF actually says; What we're reading!
Mail-order abortion under pressure from RFK Jr.; J. D. Vance in Europe; Trump's IVF betrayal
Pope Francis's letter to the US bishops; What's the thinking behind Leila's School for Housewives; Laura Ingalls Wilder, blogger
A round-up of current events: Gaza, USAID, Tariffs, RFK Jr.; Feminism's awful roots; Ordo Amoris
If the US bishops fight Trump on immigration, they’re bound to lose for this one important reason, and... A reader asks, what was going on before Vatican II?
What Should the National Prayer Service Be Like? (Hint: it should involve prayer); Biden, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Phyllis Schlafly, American Hero; and more!
The mysteries of Epiphany-tide; Mark Zuckerberg, an enemy of the common good; The sweetness of All Creatures Great and Small
January 6th, lots of things to note; Cardinal McElroy; Mark Zuckerberg, and more!
Keeping Christmas until Candlemas and more Q & A's
Your Questions! Our Answers! And the New York Times cites debunked "expert" on Virgin Birth, Merry Christmas
Syria, Regime Change, and Christians in Trouble; the real lesson of Daniel Penny, and so much more!
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris: The objectivity of the beautiful and the ugly; and suppression of the feminine by "synodal" ecclesiology
Phil: What Catholics can do for the American Republic; Leila: Three Leftist mistakes to avoid in daily life
This pivotal election: immigration, gender ideology, and the freedom to get back to ordinary life; Becket
No grandchildren, says the New York Times? Phil and I wonder why; the election aftermath; the literacy project (books from our shelves); the Red Sox!
The Election and Peanut the Squirrel's Real Importance
Marriage makes a difference to the kind of polity we have; Synodality; Books!
Phil on Blessed Karl; Leila on what they don't want you to know about the abortion pill; and more!
Bill Clinton "campaigns" for Kamala; the Constitution; books!
Want to know why the Left lies about Amber Thurman?
Public works vs. private charity; the cynicism and societal destruction of legalizing marijuana "for private use"; and more!
The VP Debate, a lens on current events and issues: Helene, Israel, health care, abortion; the Orthodox leaders' statement on marriage; and more!
No, your moderate amount of evil is not okay
San Diego Cardinal McElroy, against Church Teaching, Harshly Repudiates Catholic Homeschooling Families; Amber Thurman Dies of Legal Abortion, Media and Kamala Harris Lie; Bees; Tomatoes!