Since 1950 I have worked with my many sisters from around the world as one of the Missionaries of Charity. Our congregation now has over four hundred foundations in more that one hundred countries, including the United States of America. We have almost five thousand sisters. We care for those who are often treated as [...]

I have a policy that I follow religiously. I do not under any circumstances put photographs of my child on the internet. (I make exceptions only where the photos are password protected and even then I don’t leave them on the internet forever.) To some, this may seem extreme. This morning, however, we have this [...]

The California Supreme Court declared yesterday that homosexuals have a constitutional right to marry. What they really did was declare democracy unconstitutional. In fashioning a new right out of whole cloth, the California Supreme Court banned democracy and ignored the majority of California voters, who have voted that marriage should be reserved for one man [...]

I recently finished reading My Grandfather’s Son by Justice Clarence Thomas. Far from being solely preoccupied with the tawdry Anita Hill fiasco, Justice Thomas tells us what it what it was like to grow up, fatherless and in poverty, in the segregated South, of his education, his and legal career and public service, as well [...]