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3 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Kimberly Alters |Charles Russo |Dan Gentile |Timothy Karoff
San Francisco is a jungle for its human residents, too, with new sights and sounds lurking behind every tree and along every promenade. To keep track of the city’s thicket of activity, we started Fogcutter, SFGATE’s weekly roundup of events, ephemera and entertainment. Every week, our reporters crawl the city’s sidewalks, studios and shopping centers and write about what they see.
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |Carl Olson
(Image: Sebastian Pichler/unsplash.com)The Justices simply announced that “[t]he judgment [of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma] is affirmed by an equally divided Court.”The outcome involving St. Isidore is something of a surprise because, during oral arguments on April 30th, it appeared that a narrow Supreme Court majority would decide in favor of allowing the school to operate.
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1 month ago | 
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff |Kendra Smith |Silas Valentino |Charles Russo
My friends and I checked in last Saturday and were provided with a wooden bucket with fresh water and the classic shallow spoon for pouring it on the hot stones. Inside the new, barrel-style sauna, the temperature was a sizzling 190 degrees. A clever hourglass timer on the wall kept us from overstaying. The short walk to the bay was chilling, in the best way possible. By the third round, we could make it almost 10 minutes inside, and our dips were energizing rather than shocking.
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1 month ago | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | Amy Welborn |Larry Chapp |Charles Russo |Conor Dugan
My unplanned week in Rome for a papal election By Amy Welborn on May 08, 2025 07:32 pmA week ago today, I wasn’t even thinking about going to Rome. Yes, Pope Francis had died, and yes, a conclave was coming.
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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |Carl Olson
(Image: Wesley Tingey / Unsplash.com)On February 18, 2025, in Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, the First Circuit undermined parental God-given rights to direct the upbringing of their children. The court instead upheld the authority of educators in Massachusetts, who, acting pursuant to an unwritten protocol of their school committee (as boards are called there), withheld information from parents that their sixth-grade daughter wanted to be identified by a male name and pronouns at school.
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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |Carl Olson
The front façade of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC.(Image: Ian Hutchinson/Unsplash.com)On March 11, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Chiles v. Salazar this fall, The case challenges a Colorado law infringing on the free speech rights of a licensed Christian counselor who provided “conversion therapy” for minors confused about their gender identities. Given Chiles’ potential impact on free speech and, ultimately, on religious freedom, this column reviews its history.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |Carl Olson
Officials in MA ban t-shirt stating “There Are only Two Genders”At its heart, L.M. v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts evidences a clash of values, or as alluded to in Tinker, rights and whose will prevail.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | Matthew Becklo |Charles Russo |Sean Fitzpatrick |George Weigel
The zero-sum crisis and the paradoxical solution By Matthew Becklo on Mar 13, 2025 02:58 pmTwo recent editorials in The New York Times—one by Damien Cave and one by Amanda Taub—argue that “zero-sum game” thinking is on the rise in American geopolitics. In a zero-sum game, like tic-tac-toe or chess, one person’s gain is Read in browser » Vatican could be close to decision in Rupnik case, report says By Catholic News Agency on Mar 13, 2025 10:50 amFather Marko Rupnik.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
newsone.com | Charles Russo |Suzanne Eckes |Bilal Morris
CLOSE Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton and Suzanne Eckes, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe school choice movement received a major boost on Jan. 29, 2025, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order supporting families who want to use public money to send their children to private schools. The far-reaching order aims to redirect federal funds to voucher-type programs.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |George Weigel
California discriminates against beleaguered Christian bakerThe owner of a small bakery in Bakersfield is fighting a suit from the state’s Civil Rights Department while also dealing with threats, harassment, and physical violence. Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, CA, was established in 2013.
