Matthew Schmitz

Romney got in a couple of good lines about the President’s fraught relationship with the Catholic Church at last night’s Al Smith Dinner: The President has put his own stamp on relations with the Church. There have been some awkward moments. Like when the President pulled Pope Benedict . . . . Continue Reading »

The Daily Beast reports: After a marathon meeting to decide his fate, the board of trustees of The King’s College, a small evangelical college based in Manhattan, announced Thursday that conservative author Dinesh D’Souza had resigned as the school’s president. Former president and . . . . Continue Reading »

French counter-enlightenment thinker Louis de Bonald’s uniquely strong proposal for discouraging divorce, as summarized by Mark Henrie: If divorce is allowed at all, therefore, parents should be treated as deceased and the children raised as wards of the state. This follows because “a . . . . Continue Reading »

The National Catholic Register has a piece discussing the frustration of many at the treatment (or lack of treatment, rather) of the issue of religious freedom in the debates, citing Anna Williams’ disappointment at Tuesday’s spectacle: On the  First Things  website, Anna . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama hit Romney hard on the issue of contraception in Tuesday’s debate, and we saw Romney do what he’s done in every political environment: docilely accept the terms offered by his opponent (whether that’s Massachusetts liberalism or talk-radio conservatism). . . . . Continue Reading »

I made many of my close friends—-and learned a good deal to boot—-at the first Love and Fidelity Network conferences, and so I’m happy to commend this year’s upcoming conference taking place on the Princeton University campus on November 2nd and 3rd. The conference begins . . . . Continue Reading »

Rapper 50 Cent recently took to Twitter to outline a four-step plan for sexual purity. We hear enough, mostly true, about the crassness of today’s pop-music that it’s worth highlighting when one of its stars speaks out for virtue (whatever else he has said against it elsewhere): [ <a . . . . Continue Reading »

The great evangelist—-who became famous for stadium-filling crusades and became a close friend and adviser to multiple presidents—-issued the following statement: “It was an honor to meet and host Governor Romney in my home today, especially since I knew his late father former . . . . Continue Reading »

Lou Markos of Houston Baptist University is going through the works of C.S. Lewis using a nice A-Z conceit. Check it out on his website . . . . . Continue Reading »

From the  Columbus Dispatch : For all 18 years of her life, Megan Ryan has given to others. Last night, her peers at Bishop Hartley High School returned some of the love. Ryan, who has Down syndrome, was crowned the 2012 homecoming queen during a ceremony at the Roman Catholic school on the . . . . Continue Reading »