In defense of homeschooling

NYC Mayor de Blasio: Protests essential, but not religion

By Catholic News Agency on Jun 04, 2020 10:38 pm
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 4, 2020 / 03:32 pm (CNA).- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that ongoing protests in the city merit exceptions to coronavirus regulations, while religious services do not. [...]
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In defense of homeschooling

By Russell Shaw on Jun 04, 2020 05:08 pm
Although a Harvard law school professor’s recent proposal that homeschooling children be banned provoked a predictable hornets’ nest of justifiably outraged responses, the article by Professor Elizabeth Bartholet nevertheless served two useful purposes that make [...]
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No shelter-in-place for the unborn

By Monica Seeley on Jun 04, 2020 01:03 pm
These past three months have often felt like wartime, complete with restrictions and rationing. And as often happens in wartime, a parallel struggle has played out under cover of the general chaos. Its battles have [...]
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‘We need to come back to Sunday Mass’

By Joseph M. Hanneman on Jun 03, 2020 08:16 pm
MADISON, Wisconsin — At a time when violence in the streets and a public health pandemic weigh heavily on people’s minds, Bishop Donald J. Hying said Wednesday that the answer is more access to Holy [...]
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Minds that Hate: A Meditation on Racially-Charged Rioting

By Joseph Pearce on Jun 03, 2020 06:22 pm
But if you want money for people with minds that hate All I can tell is brother you’ll have to wait. — John Lennon (From the lyrics of “Revolution” by the Beatles) The recent racially-charged [...]
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German bishop calls for Rome synod to discuss German synod

By Catholic News Agency on Jun 03, 2020 05:50 pm
CNA Staff, Jun 3, 2020 / 01:31 pm (CNA).- The president of the German bishops’ conference has called for a synod in Rome that would discuss resolutions of the German “synodal process” at the level [...]
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The Solution

By Dale Ahlquist on Jun 03, 2020 01:46 pm
Right now we need some good news. Fortunately we have it. But right now it seems that no one even wants to hear good news. It is a difficult time to think clearly. Passions are [...]
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The Vatican’s Choice: Jimmy Lai or Xi Jinping?

By George Weigel on Jun 03, 2020 03:16 am
In mid-May, Chinese leader Xi Jinping unveiled a plan to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and impose draconian new “national security” laws on the former British colony. Putatively intended to defend Hong Kong from “secessionists,” “terrorists,” [...]
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Body Language: A Review of Hope to Die

By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Jun 02, 2020 04:33 pm
Upon first receiving my review copy of this substantive little book (it is truly a work in the situation of multum in parvo), I assumed it would be classic Scott Hahn: robust Catholic teaching informed [...]
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“Tragedies that no ethics can prevent”

By CWR Staff on Jun 02, 2020 02:20 pm
Interview by Dominik Lusser for Zukunft CH, a non-profit foundation that promotes respect for human rights and the free, democratic legal order of Switzerland, and intends to convey perennial values and to strengthen the family [...]
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