Articles by Ed Condon
Commentary: What will be gained from a deal with Beijing?
Mar 28, 2018 / 23:00 pmEver since President Nixon famously “opened” China to the West, the country’s rise as an economic and political superpower has been a thorny nettle to grasp. The conventional wisdom has been that, while there are grave and pervasive issues in China relating to political freedom and human rights, these will be gradually eroded by a developing economy and growing middle class - a process best hastened by open trade and engagement with Western nations.
Commentary: The Vatican gap between theory and practice
Feb 16, 2018 / 16:00 pmYesterday Pope Francis issued a new letter motu proprio entitled Imparare a congedarsi, or “Learning to take your leave.”
Analysis: The ambassador’s visit to Rome’s American seminary
Jan 10, 2018 / 16:00 pmOn Jan. 10, Callista Gingrich, the United States Ambassador to the Holy See, was a guest at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. She visited the college to receive a blessing as she embarks upon her work as ambassador, according to sources at the North American College.
Commentary: Tolerance, wedding cakes, and a free society
Dec 7, 2017 / 11:11 amThis week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The result of the case, which is expected to be delivered this summer, is likely to have considerable impact on the future of free speech, religious liberty, and free enterprise in the United States.
Commentary: Don’t buy fake agendas; defend the pope!
Nov 17, 2017 / 15:00 pmFor years now, I have been bemoaning the growing number of so-called progressive Catholic figures, in academia, the media and the outer curial orbit, who fancy themselves to be the Pope’s ideological vanguard, amidst what they have taken to calling their “intra-ecclesial battle.”