By EPPC / EPPC News / Posted on September 23, 2018

The board of the Ethics and Public Policy Center convened a special telephonic meeting on Friday, September 21, 2018. After the meeting, Edward Whelan, who has led EPPC with integrity and excellence for many years, offered his resignation in light of what he described as an “appalling and inexcusable” error in posting online a series […]

By George Weigel / National Review Online / Posted on September 20, 2018

It is beyond ironic, and it borders on the scandalous, that the lesson of the Reichskonkordat debacle — paper promises mean nothing to totalitarians — has not been learned in the Vatican, which now appears to be on the verge of repeating its mistake by completing a deal with the government of the People’s Republic of China, on the 85th anniversary of the Vatican’s deal with Nazi Germany.

By Roger Scruton / Spectator (UK) / Posted on September 20, 2018

From no angle does the ostentatious Pompidou Centre fit in with its surroundings, nor did it occur to its architects that it should.

By Henry Olsen / American Greatness / Posted on September 20, 2018

Despite a roaring economy, Americans remain wary of the president and are as yet unwilling to join forces with his base. Bringing that union to fruition is the key political task President Trump faces in the next year and a half.

By George Weigel / George Weigel's weekly column The Catholic Difference / Posted on September 19, 2018

Bishops who imagined their role primarily as one of keep-the-lid-on institutional maintenance—whether in relation to their clergy, to their brother-bishops, or to both—are among the primary causes of the McCarrick and Pennsylvania scandals.

By Stephen P. White / Washington Examiner / Posted on September 19, 2018

The Polish situation is more complicated than easy analogies to Trumpism would suggest. Poland is striving, in a stumbling and halting way, to maintain its identity, an identity that is both European and inextricably Catholic.

By Mona Charen / National Review Online / Posted on September 17, 2018

In the wake of the revelation of Christine Blasey Ford’s identity, some have suggested that her allegation against Brett Kavanaugh will be handled more sensitively than such accusations once were thanks to the #MeToo movement. That may turn out to be true, but only if at least one other woman comes forward with similar charges.