Today is the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket on December 29, 1170. Thomas Becket was a statesman, a scholar, a chancellor, a priest, an archbishop, and a lion of religious liberty. Before the Magna Carta was drafted, before the right to free exercise of religion was enshrined as America’s first…
The high sounding word “tolerance” has become a ruse for coercion of liberal agendas. The “wall of separation,” so often distorted from Thomas Jefferson’s intent to point out the need to prevent government from meddling in religion, is crumbling. Despite pediatricians identifying youth transgenderism as “child…
Father Jerzy Popieluszko died for human rights and religious freedom in Poland on October 9, 1984. He did not need to do it. There was a path to freedom in the United States offered to him, but he chose death rather than be silenced by a government that hated the truth. Fr. Jerzy is a…