by William Kilpatrick | Mar 18, 2019
In defense of Ilhan Omar, Representative Jan Schakowsky said, “she comes from a different culture.” But that’s precisely the point, isn’t it? The unanswered question about the controversy over Representative Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic statements is why anyone was...
by William Kilpatrick | Mar 11, 2019
Watching Bernie Sanders’s speech announcing his candidacy for president, it struck me that—except for the part about a woman’s right to choose—Pope Francis would have found himself in agreement with just about every item on the aging socialist warrior’s agenda. This...
by William Kilpatrick | Mar 3, 2019
Although the largely liberal media is no more a friend of the Catholic Church than it was in 2002, it sees Francis as a fellow liberal who will champion the “right” causes. When the first sex-abuse scandal broke in 2002, the secular media carried a lot of...
by William Kilpatrick | Feb 24, 2019
It’s often been said of Pope Francis’s bridge-building initiatives with Islam that the traffic over the bridge goes only in one direction—away from Rome and toward Mecca. This also seems to be the case with the pope’s “historic” trip to the United Arab Emirates last...
by William Kilpatrick | Feb 18, 2019
After providing evidence for the existence of widespread corruption in the hierarchy – corruption that, he claims, Pope Francis knew about and enabled – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò called on Pope Francis to resign: “He must acknowledge his mistake and. . .must...
