Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed a law on Friday that requires women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound performed on their unborn child. The law went into effect on Monday. The law also requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of an abortion clinic. According to [...]
I set out this morning to identify my top 10 favorite quotes from Pope Francis’s new encylical, Lumen Fidei (“Light of Faith”) but it proved impossible to limit myself only to 10. So here are my top 15 favorite quotes! I hope reading this encourages you to read the entire encyclical, either online or as [...]
To Our Spiritual Fathers, Please forgive the public nature of this letter. In a sense, it goes against my personal rule of not criticizing priests or bishops in print. But only in a sense. You see, this letter isn’t meant as criticism, although I know some will take it that way. It’s more a cry [...]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops just released a statement in response to the Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8: Today is a tragic day for marriage and our nation. The Supreme Court has dealt a profound injustice to the American people by striking down in part [...]
CHICAGO — Brian Burch, President of CatholicVote.org, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court decisions on marriage: “The People of California and democracy itself suffered two losses this morning, yet defenders of marriage should not be discouraged. While the Court rejected the right of the people to defend a law passed by [...]
For all the pomp and protests, the Supreme Court’s decisions today in Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor have not changed anything. The supreme majesty of the Universe and the orbits of the celestial spheres are unmoved from their appointed courses. The sun and the moon still shine. The grass is green and [...]
NOTE: The views expressed herein do not represent the official position of CatholicVote.org. We present this commentary to help you form your own opinion. News just broke that the Supreme Court has struck down the federal definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. This is an extremely disappointing development, [...]
I’ve already written that nothing Nancy Pelosi can say about abortion will shock me anymore. Turns out I was wrong. Yes, her latest Pelosi Abortion Outrage™, prompted by the entirely appropriate question posed to her by John McCormack of the Weekly Standard, still came as no particular surprise to me: Asked what the moral difference is [...]
Those who want to eliminate the institution of marriage (their words, not mine) have their sights set on the heartland of America. After successfully redefining marriage in New England, progressives are taking their fight to the Midwest. Realizing that they have a pretty low batting average when it comes to redefining marriage at the ballot [...]
A person’s a person, no matter how small, even if he or she has anencephaly and will only live for a few hours after birth. It’s a guiding principle: from the moment of conception the new human person has the right to live, and no one else’s rights can trump that right. This fairly simple [...]
