There is a chronic shortage of active duty Catholic chaplains. While roughly 25% of the military is Catholic, Catholic priests make up only about 8% of the chaplain corps. That means approximately 275,000 men and women in uniform, and their families, are served by only 234 active-duty priests.  The temporary solution to this shortage is... Continue Reading

To put flesh and blood on those statistics, all one has to do is look around. In Baghdad, Islamic militants stormed the Syriac Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation on 31 October 2010, killing the two priests celebrating Mass and leaving a total of 58 people dead. Though shocking, the assault was far from... Continue Reading

“We didn’t pick the fight,” Green explained. “We never imagined we’d sue our own government. We love our country. But the mandate requires us to become abortion providers, which goes against our conscience.” Green said his firm would “not provide abortive drugs for free and won’t prevent employees from accessing those drugs.”   Hobby Lobby... Continue Reading

Can we develop a definition of economic freedom that can be measured? Fraser’s motto is, “if it matters, measure it.” Obviously, the effort fit well with its mission.  The early meetings attracted Milton Friedman and other talented economists.  These high-level discussions led to gradual progress and the development of a workable framework which is still... Continue Reading

“We are not safe in Pakistan. This was the first time we suffered, but it was huge,” he said from his son’s bedside. “I just can’t explain how I feel. We have lost many friends, I’ve lost cousins, uncles, aunties. We’re confused and we just don’t know what to do.”   It was at 11.44am... Continue Reading

Many Christians think they cannot believe in the full authority and inspiration of the Bible and at the same time support same-sex relationships, says Matthew Vines, though he hopes to convince them that isn’t the case. Vines says he’s received several hundred emails over the course of the last year-and-a-half from conservative-minded Christians who have... Continue Reading

Lela Gilbert is the author of Saturday People, Sunday People, which details the expulsion of 850,000 Jews who fled or were forced to leave Muslim countries in the mid-20th century. The title of her book comes from an Islamist slogan, “First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People,” which means “first we kill the Jews,... Continue Reading

They worry that people who act on their traditional, religious convictions about marriage are paying a price in the media and in state courts.   Conservatives are rallying around a House bill designed to protect religious people who advocate for traditional marriage — a belief, they say, that is held in increasing contempt. But supporters... Continue Reading

Scientists use “theory” both for what’s proven and what’s not, and Wade stipulates “that evolution has certainly occurred and no fact is better attested.” Excuse me? I’ve read numerous eyewitness accounts of Civil War battles: Those are well-attested. I’ve been in the DuPont labs where scientists developed nylon and other products: That history is well-attested.... Continue Reading

When we arrived in the city centre we were greeted with a barrage of noise. At one end of the street was a busker playing loud South American music through an amplifier, and then in the middle of the street was an opera singer who was singing at the top her lungs with amplification. All... Continue Reading