Law

Senators Mazie Hirono and Kamala Harris recently pressured a federal judicial nominee, Brian Buescher, to distance himself…

Readers of First Things will already know of the recent senatorial attacks on judicial nominees for their…

I worked on a congressional campaign this year that happened to coincide with my rediscovery of Richard…

Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to consider an important Establishment Clause case from Maryland, The American…

In the aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, the New York Times published an…

I went to see Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer because I thought I ought…

Words may do literal violence after all. News that the Department of Health and Human Services may…

A Canadian commenting upon the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process seems like bad manners. Good neighbors are not…

God has given the United States over to divisive blindness and stupidity. Americans watched Dr. Christine Blasey…

What are we to make of the political knife-fight over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination? One thing to…

On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…

Initially, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh seemed to be a mere barometer, a neutral indicator of the…

When I was a new convert to Catholicism I used to visit an elderly priest for tea…

Many sense that the hierarchy’s rejection of capital punishment and their complacency about clergy sexual abuse are…

Jack Phillips barely had time to catch his breath. Less than a month after the Supreme Court…