A new Pew Research Center survey, "Changing World: Global Views on Diversity, Gender Equality, Family Life and the Importance of Religion," offers many fascinating insights on these subjects. What it has to say about religion, in particular, has grave political implications. Almost 6 in 10 Americans (58%) believe that religion plays a less important role today [...]
Pete Buttigieg, unlike most of his Democratic competitors, is not shy when talking about religion. His problem is that no one knows who his audience is. When it comes to matters of sexuality and the family, Buttigieg can't persuade traditional Catholics, evangelical Protestants, orthodox Jews, and most Mormons and Muslims, that he is right. His rejection [...]
On May 17, the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act; every Democrat voted for it. It is the most comprehensive assault on religious liberty, the right to life, and privacy rights ever packaged into one bill in the history of the United States. This act is based on the idea that sexually challenged men and [...]
Infanticide is the deliberate killing of infants, either by active or passive measures. In Nazi Germany, they preferred the former; in this country, we prefer the latter. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it is okay to allow a baby born alive as a result of a botched abortion to die unattended by hospital staff. Virginia [...]
Recently Trevor Noah joked about the tragedy in France. On second thought, it is not clear whether he thinks the Notre Dame fire was a tragedy at all. "Why doesn't France ask for the Catholic Church to pay for the repairs? A billion dollars is nothing to them. It's like three child abuse settlements." In this [...]
"SNL" went on a tear against homosexual priests recently. Michael Che Campbell (his father named him after Che Guevara, the Cuban terrorist) made a quip about Pope Francis' warning against the negative aspects of gossip. Campbell asked, "Did you hear what happened to those altar boys?" It is true that heterosexual priests rarely act inappropriately with [...]
In his NBC-TV show recently, Seth Meyers told viewers that "Pope Francis has announced new rules designed to change how the Catholic Church deals with abuse accusations, and not 2,000 years too soon." This guy lives in a bubble. There is no town or city in America that houses more sexual predators per square inch than [...]
After much delay, the Vatican has finally set forth reforms to combat clergy sexual abuse. Fortunately, they are comprehensive and meaningful. Due to widely different cultural practices, reforms are not easy to craft for global institutions. Those who wrote these strictures did a commendable job. The reforms target a wide range of persons victimized by sexual [...]
Rapper Joyner Lucas is not exactly a household name, but he should be. Not for his singing, but for his thuggery. Lucas deceitfully secured access to a Catholic church, never telling the pastor that he was going to cut a vicious video, "The Devil's Work." The opening scene shows Lucas drinking a bottle of whiskey in [...]
Muslim fanatics, so-called Islamists, are the most violent enemy of Christians in the world. While it is considered controversial to even mention this today, even less reported is the non-violent counterpart to these barbarians: militant secularists. The latter are growing in influence by leaps and bounds, even to the point of accommodating the Islamists. According to [...]
