John Thomas Scopes was your quintessential math and science teacher of the 1920s. He had round glasses and a serious demeanor and wore a skimmer hat, sometimes perched rakishly on one side of his head. He wasn’t necessarily an amazing…
The Basilica of Our Lady of Consolation is the tallest building in Carey, Ohio, a sleepy town halfway between Toledo and Columbus. It’s a beautiful place — an oasis hidden in the Midwest — but when I agreed to walk…
On Friday, the Supreme Court ended the week by releasing its 6–3 ruling on 303 Creative v. Elenis, which overturns a Colorado law that would “compel an individual to create speech she does not believe.” “Taken seriously, that principle would…
The yearslong probe into Hunter Biden’s criminal activities may end with a whimper. On June 20, the president’s son agreed to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor charges. He will cooperate with prosecutors in order to dismiss a firearm charge,…
“Hopefully I don’t get fired for this,” a South Carolina teacher allegedly told her students as she prepared to show them two short videos on critical race theory (CRT) this spring. Mary Wood has not been fired, but the Lexington-Richland…
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was known for insisting on wearing her traditional habit — even when most of the Oblate Sisters of Providence had adopted more modern garb. “I am Sister WIL-HEL-MINA,” she would say. “I’ve a HELL of a WILL,…
Advocacy groups are threatening litigation after an Oklahoma school board approved the initial application for the nation’s first public religious charter school. On Monday, the Oklahoma Virtual Charter School Board announced that it approved St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual…
This morning, a Wisconsin school board policy committee voted to move forward on a policy that would ban all political signs from schools in the district — including Pride and Black Lives Matter flags. The ban, which would apply to…
Two hundred thousand Irish cows could be slaughtered, according to a report from the Irish Department of Agriculture. The report, obtained last week by the Irish Independent, suggests that Ireland should reduce dairy herds by culling 10 percent of cows…