Matthew Schmitz

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  • May 13, 2026
    American Catholicism is in steep decline. In 2000, 2.6 million American children attended Catholic schools. In 2025, only 1.6 million did. In 2001, more than a quarter-million...
  • May 4, 2026
    Since Sept. 11, 2001, commentators on the American right have tended to cast Islam as a menace to Western liberties. But in the freewheeling world of antiestablishment podcasts,...
  • Apr 21, 2026
    Sometimes recalled as an attempt at heavy-handed theocracy, faith-based initiatives were in fact an attempt to make government more nimble, effective, and pluralistic. Since World...