The Narthex
Three American Catholics
JFK's 1960s solution to U.S. Church-state relations was deeply flawed and destructive
By John M. Grondelski | May 21st 2025 1:30 PMSocial media carried a photo of Pope Leo XIV in the papal office with Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Do we realize how revolutionary that picture is? It’s not just that the Pope is American. It’s that the Vice President is a Catholic, as is…
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One has to ask: What really is their “pre-eminent issue”?
By John M. Grondelski | January 27th 2025 3:02 PMEven the most cursory social media survey in the past 24 hours suggests Vice President J.D. Vance’s comment about the money that flows through the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for “immigrant” services touched a nerve among the bishops, who managed to react in the middle of a…
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Ideologues who ignore the nation's real interests mostly protect each other
By John M. Grondelski | August 20th 2024 1:54 PMMinouche Shafik has quit as President of Columbia. After some posturing before a House committee on how Columbia “protects” its Jewish students from the pro-Hamas mob -- which, like a virus, occasionally manifests a more virulent outbreak -- Shafik showed herself incapable of handling vandals who interfered with student access…
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