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1 week ago | 
brownpelicanla.com | Casey Chalk
How much of the Passion did Our Lady witness, and how did she understand it?
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1 week ago | 
crisismagazine.com | Casey Chalk
How much of the Passion did Our Lady witness, and how did she understand it?
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1 week ago | 
theaquilareport.com | Casey Chalk
Secularism, far from transcending sectarianism and violence, is responsible for some of the most heinous, murderous regimes this planet has ever witnessed. Indeed, though many of its adherents argue that secularism is objective and indifferent, it “carries normative assumptions and frames of reference” that evince its own peculiar paradigm.
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3 weeks ago | 
conservativereview.com | Casey Chalk
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3 weeks ago | 
thefederalist.com | Casey Chalk
The White House on March 27 issued an executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which prohibits public expenditure on any Smithsonian Institution exhibits or programs that attack core American values or “divide Americans based on race.” The interior secretary will also investigate whether any public monuments, memorials, or properties have been removed or altered to advance racialist ideology.
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4 weeks ago | 
rlo.acton.org | Casey Chalk
More than a decade ago, I had the privilege of visiting Tuol Sleng, a museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, that displays in horrific detail the murderous brutality committed by the totalitarian Khmer Rouge, which governed the country from 1975 to 1979. Originally a school, Tuol Sleng was turned into a prison housing more than 18,000 “enemies of the state,” almost all of whom were murdered.
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1 month ago | 
catholic.com | Casey Chalk
Imagine you are a judge on a high court, hearing a case debating the meaning of a law. One plaintiff presents his case, citing the language of that law, as well as the language of various other laws. He reads the laws reverently, periodically inflecting his voice to emphasize certain passages, or pausing to note that the passage clearly proves that he is right. Then he sits down. The other plaintiff rises and proceeds also to cite the law.
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1 month ago | 
thecatholicthing.org | Casey Chalk
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church,” famously opined Venerable Servant of God Fulton Sheen, “but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” I’d go a step further: if there’s one thing that people, regardless of their religious affiliation, feel competent and confident to speak on, it seems to be the Catholic Church. Everybody seems to know what it teaches and why, and, by extension, why it’s dead wrong.
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1 month ago | 
conservativereview.com | Casey Chalk
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1 month ago | 
thefederalist.com | Casey Chalk
During Lent, Christians around the world make all kinds of sacrifices big and small to separate themselves from the things of the world and get closer to God, often following the format of alms, prayer, and fasting as found in Jesus’ exhortations during the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6).
