But before pro-choice forces sniff out a papist plot, they should reflect on a couple of facts. First, the late Justice William Brennan, a strong supporter of legal abortion, was a Catholic.

Few masterpieces contain as many chestnuts as Hamlet. Take this one: "The play's the thing/ Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." With these words, Prince Hamlet welcomes a theatrical ...

Ride a cock-horse¹ to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady upon a white horse;Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,She shall have music wherever she goes. For centuries the town of Banbury in ...

The American Papist begins his Lenten reflec tion with these words: "Lent is a time for self-reflection and amendment of one’s ways. It’s a time to ask ourselves, "What more can I do?

The New Anti-Catholicism The Last Acceptable Prejudice by Philip Jenkins Oxford University Press, 272pp., $27 THE CENTRAL CLAIM of Philip Jenkins's newest book, "The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last ...

I like Gonzaga University, especially now that its basketball team has stopped being everyone's Cute Little Underdog every March. (Go VCU!) The campus in Spokane is lovely, and Ja ...

“There is an organization seeking to control the United States today that is more subversive to our basic American democratic way of life than all the Communist hordes … It is the hierarchy of ...

And recently the American Papist Blog (simply known as “AmP” to its devoted fans) teamed up with another Catholic-new-media favorite of mine: CatholicVote.org.

The American Papist is in a tizzy because New York's new governor, Andrew Cuomo, received communion at Mass on Sunday. Actually, what has the Papist in a tizzy is the fact that Cuomo was not ...

Papist Coffee has seen rapid growth: Only last year, Franco was doing everything himself, from roasting and grinding to printing his own labels, designing, packing and shipping.

English newspapers keep establishments in many countries for the manufacture of lies; but they send the most unscrupulous of their operatives in this branch of newspaper enterprise to the capital ...