The Narthex
Wiping Away Baptism?
The Church is not just another organization with claims to be adjudicated by an EU court
By John M. Grondelski | October 6th 2026 11:28 AMThe highest court of the European Union is currently considering a Belgian case where the petitioner is asking the EU to order a Catholic diocese to expunge his record of baptism from the baptismal books under the Union’s “right of erasure” rules. In the name of continent-wide harmonized data protection…
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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…
READ FULL BLOG POSTDo You Have a Right to Pray for Another?
Some imagine they have a right to demand others not pray for them
By John M. Grondelski | December 23rd 2024 12:51 PM“The Ethicist” is one of my favorite New York Times columns because it is insight into the “mind” of the woke. It is also the product of an “ethics” that is essentially relativistic at heart, save for occasional feints towards “consent” and “tolerance” (whatever that means). I know that, in…
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