by William Kilpatrick | May 25, 2021
In view of the current strife between Israel and Hamas, we’re re-posting this piece from four years ago to provide some perspective. Catholics who don’t pay attention may think that Jewish-Catholic relations are in good shape. After all, Church documents such as...
by William Kilpatrick | May 19, 2021
An NBC news station recently did a report on Cultures in Context. When the reporter first contacted me, he indicated that the segment would discuss the Southern Poverty Law Center’s claim that my nonprofit organization is a hate group. The report turned out to be more...
by William Kilpatrick | May 4, 2021
“Pope appoints head of Amalgamated Coal Mines to lead Vatican Commission on Climate Change.” It’s a headline you’re unlikely to ever see. The climate may change, but Pope Francis’s opposition to fossil fuel is set in, well, anthracite. But suppose for a moment...
by William Kilpatrick | Apr 26, 2021
I see that Ousseynou Sy’s sentence for attempted murder has just been reduced to 19 years on appeal. Ousseynou Sy? Perhaps the name doesn’t ring a bell. He’s the bus driver who set his bus full of children on fire two years ago. It happened on a highway near Milan,...
by William Kilpatrick | Apr 22, 2021
It’s time for Catholics to move beyond the level of “If you close the door on immigrants, you’re closing the door on Jesus,” and think more rigorously about the subject. In a recent CWR essay on the massacre of 10 people in Boulder, Colorado by a Muslim, I made the...
