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2 weeks ago | 
thefederalist.com | Casey Chalk
Fifty years ago today, the last American servicemen and diplomats evacuated South Vietnam as North Vietnamese military units closed in on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City. Operation Frequent Wind, as it was called, airlifted more than 7,000 people out of Saigon between April 29 and 30, 1975.
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2 weeks ago | 
catholic.com | Casey Chalk
But what if the essential problem with Protestantism, rather, has to do with a failure to maintain the proper balance between heaven and earth? Scholar Matthew Becklo in his new book The Way of Heaven and Earth: From Either/Or to the Catholic Both/And makes precisely this argument.
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1 month 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 month 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 month 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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1 month ago | 
conservativereview.com | Casey Chalk
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1 month 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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1 month 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.
