BreakPoint Daily Commentary Archives

During the third-century Plague of Cyprian, Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, wrote that the Romans “pushed the sufferers away and fled from their...

In such a world, without ultimate standards of right and wrong, what makes a so-called “brotherhood of man” or a “life in peace” any better than...

By some estimates, Google handles about seven billion searches per day. To put that in perspective, there are about seven billion people on the...

With all the news about the coronavirus, it’s essential to talk together with kids about what it means to have faith and to deal with fears, and to...

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden unveiled his campaign commitments to the LGBTQ community last week noting that he would roll back...

If you find yourself in a conversation about this, needing to explain the problem with the “abortion is healthcare” euphemism, our latest “What...

St. Patrick had been raised in a Christian home, but he didn’t really believe in God. But now—hungry, lonely, frightened, and bitterly cold—Patrick...

In a recent interview with the BBC, Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian who spent eight years waiting for execution on a trumped-up charge of...

The loneliness epidemic has had its effect on many different groups of people, but perhaps more prominently, it has plagued the elderly community....

Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most important abortion case since Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt.

Despite an unfortunately common mis-reputation, both within the Church and without, Christianity doesn’t teach that human bodies are evils to be...

An Idaho contractor recently asked the Supreme Court to hear his case and to overturn a decision written by the late Justice Antonin Scalia...

Rhetoric about climate change is particularly damaging to younger Americans who have “fragile psyches.” I’m not using that description in any...

Prayer is, for many today, politically unacceptable, seen as an affront to science, an obstacle to governance, and worst of all, a shameful...

According to the best numbers so far, the lethality of COVID-19 is about two percent. If that rate holds, the coronavirus would be about ten times...