The five conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were in such a rush to see Domineque Ray executed that they ignored the First Amendment. This is because the condemned prisoner was a Muslim, ...

While much of the religious liberty oxygen has been absorbed by Jeff Sessions’ announcement of a Religious Liberty Task Force at the Dept. of Justice, the State Department celebrated the launch of its ...

As growing numbers of career politicians and conservative pundits scramble to distance themselves from the ever-imploding presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, the foul-mouthed businessman still ...

Late last month, two global authorities signaled their positions on gender, sex, and the rights of transgender individuals. One of those authorities was the World Health Organization. The other was ...

In recent weeks, as the reality of Donald Trump’s nomination has continued to settle, op-eds have begun to circulate on social media claiming to make a “moral” case for his candidacy. These are ...

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When I decided to attend Wheaton College two years ago, I was expecting a haven of like-minded young Christian scholars. But it turns out—while Wheaton is a special and loved place—it still has a lot ...

In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers simple advice: go through all of your possessions, one by one, and ask yourself, “Does this bring me joy?” ...

Despite media reports to the contrary, it doesn’t appear that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is backing down from his attempt to dictate the private morality of teachers in San ...

A consensus is building at an astounding rate that long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) such as the IUD and hormonal implants may be something of a magic bullet in the fight against unplanned ...

Fox News’s The Five features five right-wing political commentators sitting in a circle and discussing the news of the day. It’s sort of like every other show on Fox, except there are five people in ...

The U.S. Catholic Bishops launch their second annual “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign this week with a Friday night mass celebrated by Archbishop William Lori, who chairs the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee ...