Looks like the presidential candidates all discovered “God talk.” This includes Bernie Sanders, a devout secularist. He eschews religious ties, though even he says, “I think everyone believes in God in their own way.” Hillary Clinton, who has never been known for her strong religious convictions, told a tiny group of Iowans that religion “is very important to me.” She did not elaborate.

Donald Trump recently told a Liberty University audience that “Christianity [is] under siege.” Yet he still refuses to address an anti-Catholic tweet made by his chief spokesperson, Katrina Pierson. Soon after this occurred, Trump was introduced to a crowd by Rev. Robert Jeffress, another Protestant who has made anti-Catholic remarks. In 2010, he accused the Catholic Church of doing the work of Satan. Trump now needs to address Jeffress as well.

Jeb Bush sounded very much like Trump last year when he told a Liberty University audience that Christianity is under attack as “something static, narrow and outdated.” Just recently, he questioned Trump’s veracity. When asked if he thought Trump was a Christian, he said, “No, I don’t know what he is.” Is Bush now calling Trump a liar? He provided no evidence to back up his comment.

Marco Rubio has played musical chairs with religion: He has been a Catholic, a Mormon, and an evangelical Protestant; now he says he is a Catholic again. However, he doesn’t drop the word “Catholicism” when talking to his followers; he prefers to speak about Christianity. Ted Cruz speaks “God talk” better than others, and notes that his father, Rafael, is a pastor. Catholics take note: Rev. Cruz has accused the Catholic Church of “crossing their hands and doing nothing” about the Holocaust. In fact, no institution did more to undermine Hitler than the Catholic Church. Mr. Cruz should address his father’s ignorant smear.

“God talk” doesn’t cut it. Sincerity does.

During a recent episode of the HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher quoted Marco Rubio as saying, “We are clearly called by the Bible to adhere to our civil authorities, but that conflicts with our requirements to adhere to God’s rules. So when those two come into conflict, God’s rules always win.” To which Maher said, “No! That’s what ISIS believes.”

Rubio should have said when our adherence to our civil authorities conflict, God’s rules always win. No matter, his larger point is accurate. Indeed, it is so accurate that Maher is in a bind for ridiculing him. At Nuremberg, Nazis leaders pleaded innocent, citing their allegiance to the civil authorities. They were convicted nonetheless. But on what basis?

The positive law, that which the government posits, is the civil law. It was to the positive law that Nazis appealed—they were just following orders. The natural law, which is central to Catholic teachings, maintains that clear notions of right and wrong are inscribed in our hearts. It is this principle that the civil authorities invoked to convict the Nazis. Lucky for mankind that they did. Maher understands none of this.

If there is any religious book that ISIS follows, it is not the Bible—it is the Koran. Moreover, if everyone followed the heart of the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments, we would not have ISIS-driven terrorism. Because Rubio is Catholic, he could also appeal to the Two Great Commandments, as stated by Jesus.

• “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength.”
• “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

It is impossible to follow the Two Great Commandments and justify anything that ISIS has done. If Maher doesn’t get this, he is hopeless.

When serial anti-Catholic bigots Bill Maher and Seth MacFarlane get together, it is a sure fire recipe for new lows in tastelessness. And that’s what we got on HBO a couple of weeks ago, as MacFarlane appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

“…you’re so lucky that you do cartoons,” Maher told the creator of Fox’s “Family Guy,” “because the things you get away with in cartoons—I’m so jealous of …”

The example he chose, predictably, was the repugnant Dec. 7, 2014 episode of “Family Guy.” Titled, “The 2000-Year-Old-Virgin,” it defiled Jesus. “I saw your show, it was a repeat, I know,” Maher recounted. “Jesus was f**king Peter’s wife, but it was a scam. He was f**king a lot of people’s wives—and this was your Christmas show.” Maher, MacFarlane and the “Real Time” audience then shared a good laugh.

MacFarlane has offended Catholics numerous times before, from repeatedly mocking the Eucharist, to slandering gay priests, to promoting dishonest myths about the Inquisition. And Maher’s constant anti-Catholic rantings would of course fill pages—as they do in our annual reports. Yet HBO and its parent company, Time Warner, continue to proudly feature his show, making them fully culpable in his bigotry and that of his guests.

The passion to kill kids in the womb is so strong among some feminists that they will stop at nothing to advance the cause of abortion. Take the website Feministing.com. It is staffed by young gals whose idea of being a contemporary woman is to be pansexual, and whose ideology is marked by a wicked hatred of Catholicism.

Exhibit A was recently featured on its homepage: a vile portrayal of Our Blessed Mother, courtesy of a 19 year-old Argentinean woman. It depicted the Virgin Mary, arms stretched in front of her, holding “a naked woman bleeding between her legs.” The inscription in Spanish, which appeared below, read, “Legal[ize] abortion so we don’t die.” They liked it so much they branded it their “Image of the Day.”

Predictably, these gals hate the pope. When Pope Francis opened the door of forgiveness to women who have had an abortion, he was sincerely embraced by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. But to the sex crazies at Feministing, he was demeaning: they declared that abortion is not a “shameful sin”; rather, it is an expression of “social justice.” In other words, each unborn child whose life is snuffed out is a victory for justice. Orwell is validated once again.

We have noted for a long time that most of the sex crazies—the activists, actors, artists, educators, writers, and the like—are imbued with a pathological hatred of the good. This explains their maniacal hatred of Catholicism and their need to defile the Virgin Mary.

It is only fitting that the offices of Feministing are located at the Center for Sex & Culture on Mission Street in San Francisco.

No need to worry about pregnant women transmitting the Zika virus to their children—just kill the kids. That’s the way the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Husseinsees it. Correction: Zeid is the “High” Commissioner.

Zeid wants restrictive abortion laws repealed. More than that, he is fuming over the notion that women are in charge of their bodies. They are not. Moreover, he smirks at the advice that women should delay getting pregnant. According to the High Commissioner such advice “ignores the reality that many women and girls simply cannot exercise control over whether or when or under what circumstances they become pregnant, especially in an environment where sexual violence is so common.”

Here’s some advice for Zeid. Number one, girls should not be getting pregnant, and it is his job to say so. Second, women are not the powerless wimps that he says they are: they can, in almost all circumstances, control when to have sex and with whom. Third, he needs to man-up and name those Latin American nations (those were the ones he was addressing) where rape is commonplace. Fourth, killing innocent persons is never a morally acceptable remedy for any disease. Fifth, he ought to be policing the U.N. instead of lecturing us about the wonders of abortion: just recently, the U.N. released a report on the out-of-control conditions in the Central African Republic where its own employees are raping women! So much for the U.N. championing the rights of women.

The furor unleashed by Hollywood against Christians, especially Catholics, has never been greater. This is due to many reasons, one of which is the large number of homosexual writers who work there—this is no secret—many of whom bear an animus against Christianity.

The latest evidence came a couple of weeks ago on the new NBC sitcom, “Superstore.” It featured a moronic exchange on how to make a gay wedding display even more gay. The discussion quickly evolved into a diatribe against Christianity, concluding that Jesus “would have been pro-gay marriage,” and indeed “would have been pro-gay adoption.” The characters even speculated, “For all we know, Jesus himself was gay.”

Doing a Bing search for “Hollywood gay writers” turns up plenty of stories—one of them lists roughly 900 past and former LGBT Hollywood writers. Here’s a shocker: a similar search for “Hollywood Catholic writers” turns up empty. So much for diversity.

Few Catholics care whether Hollywood writers are disproportionately gay, but they do care about having their religion demeaned and trashed. That this goes on night after night—often accompanying gay-themed commentary—offers indisputable proof how utterly hypocritical the high priests of tolerance really are.