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California Battle for Family Rights
Who should raise children: The State or Parents? The state of California has ordered teachers to lie to parents about their student's mental, emotional and identity health.Some brave California teachers have refused to lie to parents and are fighting for the rights of families. Paul Jonna and Elizabeth Mirabelli update
Meet the New Porn: Even Worse than the Old Porn
Pornography is a strange thing—it takes something good and natural (sex), exploits that appetite for the good, inverts it, turns it inward, monetizes it, and sets the table for a one-man digital gorge-fest. The flood of digital images in the pornographic realm over the past three decades has been exponential
The Ghost of Paul Weyrich in the Halls of Heritage
At least one of the reasons there has been a revolt at the Heritage Foundation has less to do with Tucker Carlson and more to do with a gentleman many young policy people will not have heard of, the great Paul Weyrich. What many have forgotten is that Paul Weyrich
A System Perfectly Designed to Produce a Priestly Crisis
The priesthood is in a state of crisis. That’s not a criticism of anyone. There are faithful people at every level (clergy and laity alike) laboring in the Church, showing up day after day and trying to get the job done. Praise God for that. But the priesthood is in
The Dangerous Paganism of “FAFO”
About a year ago, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as a mob boss next to a sign that said “FAFO.” Since then, he’s been working the acronym into his official media presence with gusto. The term was popular within the African American and military communities for years. The latter popularized
Pope Leo XIV—Eight Months On
Full in the panting heart of RomeBeneath the Apostle’s crowning dome.From Pilgrims’ lips that kiss the ground,Breathes in all tongues, one only sound.“God bless our Pope, the great, the good.”Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman On May 8, 2025, Leo XIV was elected pope at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. With the death