Ever since President Trump announced on May 1, 2025 that he wanted a Religious Liberty Commission to make recommendations on how to protect our most important freedom, critics have tried to discredit it. The same is true of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias; it was created on February 6, 2025, under the aegis of [...]
Three of the most anti-Catholic legal organizations in the nation are the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. All three have sued the City of Quincy, Massachusetts and its mayor, Thomas Koch, over the proposed placement of statues of Saint Florian and Michael the [...]
We have previously noted that Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha has decided to conduct an investigation only of sexual misconduct by priests, allowing the clergy of every other religion a pass. Worse, he is giving a free pass to the public schools, where the problem—unlike that in the Catholic Church—is ongoing. Neronha is conducting a [...]
No institution today has a better record handling the sexual abuse of minors than the Catholic Church. Its record from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s was bad, but given the reforms initiated in 2002, it has all but eradicated this offense. The same is not true of other institutions, and none has made less progress than [...]
United States of America Religious Liberty 1776: Religious freedom in America was relatively strong during the time of its founding. While the American approach was already moving toward greater openness and diversity, several colonies still maintained official tax-supported churches. The Declaration of Independence reinforced the idea that rights come from a Creator. America was progressing toward [...]
Jennifer Roback Morse and D. Paul Sullins This is a slightly abbreviated version of what we posted online. The full report, "Refuting the Top 5 Gay Myths," is available online at the Ruth Institute. If you thought that persons who are sexually attracted to the same sex must be gay or lesbian and can only enjoy [...]
Ted Turner, founder of CNN, died May 6 at 87. He had been suffering from dementia for several years. Turner and Bill Donohue clashed a few times. But after they did, he acted responsibly. In 1999, he said that everyone should promise to have no more than two children. He failed to mention that he had [...]
If ever there were a decided secular bias that is evident in our culture, it's the way elites continue to address mental health and wellbeing. They just don't get it. Read the personal advice column in a newspaper or magazine, and you will quickly learn how to guard against loneliness and depression, and how to ensure [...]
Racism is a curse, and it is therefore understandable that news stories about the corrupt Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are focused on its funding of the Ku Klux Klan. What is frequently overlooked is its record of targeting Christians, especially Catholics. Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, nailed it when he said SPLC was guilty [...]
