MARGARET BOYLAN CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST As the elections are rapidly approaching, we Catholics are faced with a big crisis: choosing between two very unsatisfactory candidates. Honestly, we have no one to blame but ourselves in this situation. We, as Catholics, did…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST If I can leave you with one thought, it’s that our political life is failing because our communities and homes are failing. America’s bedrock principle, “one nation under God,” isn’t being treated as such. A Romanian…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST Should your faith be an influence on your voting? I’m confused and concerned that we’re even asking this question. Catholicism should, maturely considered, influence every aspect of one’s personal life. The way we eat, the way…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST One day, a presidential candidate will arise who will make the nation great again. One who promises that a political revolution is coming. A presidential candidate, maybe, who says she will be the champion for everyday…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST Modern conservatism is outraged over the SCOTUS decision to legalize same-sex marriage. But as several of the speakers at the recent World Congress of Families in Salt Lake City pointed out, if the U.S. wants to…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST Now for something completely different. The state of our world can easily make us despair. News outlets are covered in stories about various evils – from war, to hunger, to idiotic decisions made by political leaders…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST During the most recent GOP debate, Donald Trump told the moderator that if he doesn’t win the GOP nomination, he would not be supporting the GOP nominee, making himself one of the only candidates refusing to…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST There’s an old saying that goes: “The man who pays the piper calls the tune.” It’s no secret that money can sway decisions and policy according to who holds the purse strings and why. Now, as…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST Diana Rehm, NPR host, recently assisted her husband, who suffered greatly from Parkinson’s disease, in dying by cooperating with his decision to starve himself. After his death, Rehm said, “I feel the way that John had…
KATE CLARE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST Thanks to the Franciscan chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, the presidential State of the Union address was live streamed into the Gentile Gallery for all interested students. Unfortunately, for every convicting point President Obama made,…
