Steven W. Mosher

I have long wondered exactly what the novel concept of “synodality” and the new “synodal” way would mean in practice.  Now with the documents issued in “Phase III” of the “Synod on Synodality” we can begin to see some troubling signs.  The John Paul II

Nearly a decade ago, at his Mar-a-Lago home, newly elected Donald Trump met with China’s leader Xi Jinping for the first time. Trump was not naïve about China—he had written about China’s cheating on trade, currency manipulation, and technology theft in his 2011 book, Time

In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center put a bullseye on our backs. We at the Population Research Institute were smeared as “radical right extremists” who, for opposing population control and gender ideology and defending the natural family and unborn life, were accused of promoting

I don’t know Elsa Johnson, the Stanford student who recently testified before Congress that she is being targeted by Chinese intelligence agents because her research and writing was critical of Beijing. But it turns out that we have a lot in common. I, too, have been

In 1968 a young Stanford University biologist by the name of Paul Ehrlich, published his very first book. He called it The Population Bomb. And, according to him, this “bomb” in the form of too many babies had already gone off. There was nothing that

For Chinese Catholics, communist rule has often run red with the blood of martyrs. Now, in sentencing Hong Kong businessman and Catholic convert Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison on fabricated crimes, the communists have created another one. Make no mistake: sentencing a 78-year-old

Pope Leo XIV’s Catholic perspective on international relations, communicated via the Holy Father’s January 9 “State of the World” address to foreign ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, has been taken to be an implicit criticism of the “Donroe Doctrine.” In pursuit of hemispheric dominance,

As Xi Jinping purges one general after another, seeking to further consolidate his power, the population at large remains quiescent. Even as his digital dictatorship tightens controls and the economy slows down, there are no mass demonstrations rocking the streets of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou

For the second time since World War II the geopolitical tectonic plates of the world are shifting decisively in favor of the U.S. The first shift began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and ended with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union

Christmas is widely celebrated by China’s estimated 100 million Christians. In years past, neighborhoods have put up Christmas trees and other signs of the season. Shopping centers have put up Christmas decorations. And the internet was full of Christmas greetings. On the day itself, public