Thom Nickels

What is the pope really saying about Jesus Christ? Click here to sign up .] Old Papal Sourpuss – aka Pope Francis – strikes again.

What is a UFO? In the New York Times bestseller, UFOs by Leslie Kean, many government officials and pilots go on the record with reports of sightings, but say that the sightings are not necessarily alien spaceships.

Is it a cult or an exercise class? By Thom Nickels

Catholic identity on the woke chopping block.

On Election Day 2020, I entered my local polling place in Philadelphia expecting to cast my vote for President when I was informed that because I had received a mail-in ballot I could not vote at the facility but would have to fill out a form known as a provisional […]

In the heart of Center City Philadelphia there is a small graveyard alongside the church of Saint John the Evangelist. A careful reading of the headstones there will reveal the tomb of the Repplier family. How many Repplier family members are buried in this vault is a mystery because on the stone there are no inscribed names. Even peering through the graveyard's wrought iron fence for a closer look will not reveal the name, Agnes Repplier. In many ways, this graveyard's “invisibility” symbolizes what the famous writer's life was like when she was known as “the quiet lady writer who lives west of the Schuylkill.” While people the world over may have loved her books, the appreciation she received for her work, at least in Philadelphia, was at best lukewarm.

To defund or not to defund. Click here to sign up .] The great years of public broadcasting were the 1970s when Masterpiece Theater

I’d been working the polls as a Republican committee person in my Old Richmond neighborhood for about four hours when a neighbor, a woman, walked up to me after she voted, looked me up and down — especially at my red Trump hat — and said without blinking, “Do you […]

Who's to blame? In that famous childhood classic fairytale, dim-witted Chicken Little is convinced the sky is falling and creates mass hysteria in the farmyard.

While traveling with fellow journalists several years ago in the Middle East, one thing became apparent to me: most of the writers on the trip had food issues.