Law
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Bringing Sex Back
Words may do literal violence after all. News that the Department of Health and Human Services may…
The Kavanaugh Embarrassment
A Canadian commenting upon the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process seems like bad manners. Good neighbors are not…
When Justice Fails
God has given the United States over to divisive blindness and stupidity. Americans watched Dr. Christine Blasey…
Rage Politics on the Left
What are we to make of the political knife-fight over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination? One thing to…
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…
The Kavanaugh Conundrum
Initially, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh seemed to be a mere barometer, a neutral indicator of the…
Lessons From England
When I was a new convert to Catholicism I used to visit an elderly priest for tea…
Capital Punishment and the Sex Abuse Crisis
Many sense that the hierarchy’s rejection of capital punishment and their complacency about clergy sexual abuse are…
Compelling Tolerance
Jack Phillips barely had time to catch his breath. Less than a month after the Supreme Court…
An Appeal to the Cardinals of the Catholic Church
Pope Francis has revised the Catechism of the Catholic Church to read, “the death penalty is inadmissible…
Boris and the Burqa
Boris Johnson, the wily faux-buffoon of British politics, has done it again, causing the twittering classes to…
Cardinal Dulles’s Dubia
Let us allow another cardinal to be, in effect, the author of several dubia. Writing in First…
Pope Francis and Capital Punishment
In a move that should surprise no one, Pope Francis has once again appeared to contradict two…
Re-Evangelizing Law
In the decades since 1973, abortion law has morphed into a First Amendment issue. Decisive arguments turn…
A Personal Case for Justice Amy Coney Barrett
It has become something of a ritual among legal junkies and Supreme Court watchers: After nine months…
