Casey Chalk
I have a friend, a husband and father of three, a Catholic who lives in
Karachi, Pakistan. Since 2005, he has been harrassed, threatened, and
physically assaulted by Muslim extremists. While I was working on my
graduate degree in teaching in 2007, they demanded entry to his home, in
which they brandished a gun and […]
Kevin L. Cope
A little more often than now and then, some ruse, hoax, or stratagem
upends academe. Recently, a small pod of researchers scandalized
“cultural studies” by publishing, in prestigious journals, a plethora of
counterfeit studies: make-believe research addressing preposterous
issues such as the relation between the intimate anatomy of pets and the
gender identities of their […]
Elise Ehrhard
Months ago, I somehow got in an online argument defending the sacrifices
Roman Catholic priests make for their parishioners. At one point, I
mentioned the amount of time devoted to hearing confessions. At this
point, a woman on the thread practically laughed at me through the
computer. She insisted that Roman Catholic priests no longer […]
Bob Sullivan
On October 5, 2018, the government admitted they were wrong to persecute
the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). The admission came in a
settlement in EWTN’s long-drawn-out lawsuit regarding the Contraception
Mandate attached to Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). As a
result of the settlement, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated
(withdrew) its […]
Justin Bradford Smith
After Windsor or Obergefell, I cannot remember which, it occurred to me
that our best strategy, if only it would not cause scandal or offend
truth, might be to extend the reasoning of those decisions and advocate
for the most outrageous rights to show the absurdities to which the
logic, or illogic, of those decisions […]
K. V. Turley
Fr. George Rutler needs little by way of introduction to Crisis readers.
He has been gracing its pages, first in print and then online, for just
shy of four decades. Recently, Crisis caught up with Fr. Rutler for an
interview on his life as a priest-writer to mark the publication of his
latest collection of writings. […]
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