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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

The Papist, of course, is free to dismiss journalistic standards of finding out what really happened. So, too, is he free to make sweeping claims that distort rather than reveal the truth.

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 ...

“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 ...

Scots take New Year’s very, very seriously. Thanks, in part, to a particularly scourging brand of Protestantism that, starting in the 17 th century, rejected Yuletide celebrations as Papist ...

This article examines the circumstances surrounding the condemnation and burning for heresy of the Observant Franciscan John Forest in 1538. Forest's principal `heresy' was his adherence to the papacy ...

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 ...