Politics

October 12, 2020

COVID-19 Panic More Dangerous Than the Disease, Say Catholic Philosopher, Doctor, by Dorothy Cummings McLean

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - In their three-part paper, Dr. Casanova and Dr. Zabiega examine the coronavirus crisis as a medical phenomenon, a political disaster, and a grave danger for the future of humanity... A Catholic philosopher and a Catholic neurologist have written an essay laying out the medical and the political effects of the coronavirus. Their conclusion is that the manipulation of public panic is, in all but a few cases, more dangerous than the disease... Casanova and Zabiega stress that the lockdown is politically, not medically, motivated.

October 12, 2020

Is the Supreme Court Too Catholic? by Matthew J. Franck

By Matthew J. Franck, Wall Street Journal - From Antonin Scalia to Amy Coney Barrett, opposition to Catholic nominees has been mainly about the politics of abortion, not their religious faith... If the Catholicism of a nominee is considered a plus by Republicans hoping for the demise of Roe, it is understandable that it should send shudders of apprehension through the ranks of Democrats, for whom abortion rights are now a nonnegotiable plank of their party’s platform.

October 12, 2020

‘Extremely Important’ Holocaust Education is Still Missing, by Bob Kellogg

By Bob Kellogg, OneNewsNow - There's more evidence that the country's public education system is failing to teach students about key events in world history, including the murder of six million Jews... A U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey found that adults under 40 do not know much about the Holocaust. According to The Hill, public education is to blame.

October 12, 2020

Goodbye, Columbus, by Brad Miner

By Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing - This is not about Christopher Columbus – at least not directly so. All I ever needed to know about the “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” I’ve learned from Robert Royal’s Columbus and the Crisis of the West... I’ll begin at the beginning: October 12, 1955. That was when Edoardo Alfieri’s statue of the world’s greatest sailor was unveiled in Columbus, a gift from the people of Genoa, Columbus, Ohio’s first “sister city.”