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Gym teacher Tanner Cross testifies before the school board in Loudoun County, Va., May 25, 2021. (WSLS10/via YouTube) Earlier this month, I covered a recent decision by the school board in Loudoun County, Va., which enacted a permissive gender-identity policy. The new rules permit students to use restrooms and locker rooms, as well as compete in sports, on the basis of the gender with which they identify rather than their biological sex. Advertisement Advertisement In the debate leading up to the policy’s enactment, a Loudoun County physical-education teacher, Tanner Cross, was suspended from his job at Leesburg Elementary School after publicly disagreeing with aspects of the policy. The new rules require teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns rather than the pronoun reflecting ...

A Christian College Isn’t Batting An Eye In Its Showdown With The Federal Government Summary: A Biden administrative directive is forcing colleges and universities to open dorms, bathrooms, and showers to members of the opposite sex. But College of the Ozarks President Jerry Davis refuses to let that happen at his Christian institution. by Chris Potts <!–• 17 min read–> “So many kinds of green,” a student comments, looking out the window of the van carrying her across her college campus. She has lived on these thousand acres for more than two years, but still delights in the same pastoral scenes that bring the tour buses up from nearby Branson several times a week. Soft, low hills rolling on and on into the Missouri distance. Tall trees, alive with bird choirs, and c...

Pope Francis offered rare comments on the Vatican’s dealings with China, defending the Church’s controversial diplomatic efforts with the Communist regime while acknowledging that the process has yielded “questionable” results.  The pope was unusually candid for a Vatican official about the challenge of engagement with China, while doubling down on commitment to the diplomatic process. But the pope’s remarks raise the prospect that the Church is now committed to “dialogue” for its own sake, and has given up any expectation of real progress. Pope Francis. Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk Share “You can be deceived in dialogue, you can make mistakes, all that… but it is the way. Closed-mindedness is never the way,” Francis said in a Wednesday interview with Radio COPE.  “Chi...

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Sister Mary Lucy was a Poor Clare nun who suffered greatly. She lost her eyesight and had a degenerative bone disease which caused her spine to crumble. The doctors could do very little to help her. I used to visit her regularly, but never once heard her complain. Instead she had a huge radiant smile. I asked her, “Sister, do you ever feel angry at the Lord because you have lost your sight?” “Oh no!” she’d exclaim, “I’ve seen such wonderful things that I would never have been able to see if I had my sight!” She was a mystic. Another time I asked her if she was in pain because of her crumbling spine. She said, “Constantly!” Doesn’t that make you unhappy? “No! It makes me happy because it brings me so close to Jesus!” I look around me at so many people who are so unhappy over tiny trifles an...

What of those times when you are in need of an answer but time doesn’t permit for prayers in petition for a day or more? Mother Teresa of Calcutta knew what to do. She turned to our Mother, and prayed her “Flying Novena.” Msgr. Leo Maasburg, her friend and spiritual advisor, explained in his book Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Personal Portrait that it was “Mother Teresa’s spiritual rapid-fire weapon. It consisted of ten Memorares — not nine, as you might expect from the word novena. Novenas lasting nine days were quite common among the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity. But given the host of problems that were brought to Mother Teresa’s attention, not to mention the pace at which she traveled, it was often just not possible to allow nine days for an answer from Celestial Managemen...