Tony Francois is a Senior Attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, where he specializes in constitutional and environmental law. He and his family reside in Sacramento, California. The views expressed are solely his own.

Well Done, Servant of God

Sunday, October 13, 2024


The Trinity the Synod Needs

Saturday, October 12, 2024


Archbishop Cordileone slams California mandate for abortion signage at pregnancy centers

John Lavenburg, Catholic Herald/Crux

Friday, October 11, 2024


Is the Vatican at war with itself?

The Pillar

Friday, October 11, 2024


Splendor Paternae Gloriae

St. Ambrose of Milan

Friday, October 11, 2024


U.N. official: no “transgender women” should compete in women’s sports

Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency

Friday, October 11, 2024


Synod Diary:

Larry Chapp, Gaudiun et Spes 22

Friday, October 11, 2024


Is Parenthood a “Job?”

Friday, October 11, 2024


Why did Pope Francis snub Ukraine’s Major Archbishop?

J.D. Flynn, The Pillar

Thursday, October 10, 2024


Verbum supernum prodiens (The Word Descending from Above)

St. Thomas Aquinas

Thursday, October 10, 2024


Does Pope Francis want Catholicism to be more like Eastern Orthodoxy?

Charles Collins, Crux

Thursday, October 10, 2024


Argentine priest expelled for child sex abuse reinstated by Vatican

Julieta Villar, Catholic News Agency

Thursday, October 10, 2024


Pope tells Jesuits: “The Church is woman,” and roles are changing

Salvatore Cernuzio, Vatican News

Thursday, October 10, 2024


Reading Has Made Many Saints

Thursday, October 10, 2024


Georgia Supreme Court reinstates 6-week abortion ban

Kate Scanlon, OSV NEWS

Wednesday, October 9, 2024


Canada’s anti-religious conflagration claims historic Quebec church

Catholic Herald

Wednesday, October 9, 2024


The Mother of God

William Butler Yeats

Wednesday, October 9, 2024


The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances

Larry Chapp, Catholic World Report

Wednesday, October 9, 2024


Abp. Charles Chaput: A Prophet for Our Time

Bishop James Conley, What We Need Now

Wednesday, October 9, 2024


The Cost of Forgetting

Wednesday, October 9, 2024


PODCAST: Early Stirrings at the Synod in Rome, with Fr. Gerald Murray

Tuesday, October 8, 2024


The Primrose of the Rock

William Wordsworth

Tuesday, October 8, 2024


Cardinal Fernández on women deacons: time is not ripe

Cindy Wooden, USCCB/Catholic News Agency

Tuesday, October 8, 2024


Pro-LGBT Dominican among cardinal-designates

Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart

Tuesday, October 8, 2024


The telling outcome of the latest round of red-hat roulette

Catholic Herald

Tuesday, October 8, 2024


Israel is building a new Middle East and countering the Iranian threat

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, National Post

Tuesday, October 8, 2024


Treasure in Heaven

Tuesday, October 8, 2024


Belgium summons papal nuncio to complain of Pope’s ‘unacceptable’ remarks about abortion

Catholic Herald

Monday, October 7, 2024


How Oprah and vacuous celebrity endorsements may embolden Catholics

Thomas Edwards, Catholic Herald

Monday, October 7, 2024


Pope Francis, Hezbollah, Argentina, and the proportional response to acts of war

Fr. Raymond J.de Souza

Monday, October 7, 2024


Pope names 21 new cardinals, including archbishops of Tehran and Toronto

Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency

Monday, October 7, 2024


The Rosary Poem

Joyce Kilmer

Monday, October 7, 2024


Perspectives, Paradigms, and Catholicity

Monday, October 7, 2024


On Keeping Up Appearances

Sunday, October 6, 2024


Some Talking – and Listening – Points

Saturday, October 5, 2024


Fighting God’s battles

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Friday, October 4, 2024


Transhumanist reproduction is already here

Jennifer Bilek, Jennifer’s Newsletter

Friday, October 4, 2024


Catholics at odds with Church on birth control, women & married priests, and sexuality

Jonathan Evans and Kelsey Jo Starr, Pew Research

Friday, October 4, 2024


Can Trump be trusted on abortion?

Carmel Richardson, First Things

Friday, October 4, 2024


NY’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan sues insurance giant Chubb for failing to pay abuse claims

John Lavenburg, Crux

Friday, October 4, 2024


Badass Christianity

Friday, October 4, 2024


At liberal Notre Dame: Trump-Harris polling “razor-thin”

Catalina Scheider Galiñanes, National Catholic Register

Thursday, October 3, 2024


Canticle of the Creatures

St. Francis of Assisi

Thursday, October 3, 2024


Moloch’s web of lies

Jonathan Van Maren, European Conservative

Thursday, October 3, 2024


Pope opening Synod: Be humble, open-minded

Elise Ann Allen, Crux

Thursday, October 3, 2024


The sacramental nature of authority and the limits of synodality

Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., Catholic World Report

Thursday, October 3, 2024


How to Be a Missionary Church

Thursday, October 3, 2024


Should we name our guardian angels?

Msgr. Charles Pope

Wednesday, October 2, 2024


Vatican announces apostolic visit to Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

Walter Sánchez Silva, EWTN Vatican

Wednesday, October 2, 2024


Episcopal Conferences

Pope St. John Paul II

Wednesday, October 2, 2024