Professor Walter Williams recently observed that today’s academic climate might be described as a mixture of infantilism, kindergarten and totalitarianism. As a graduate of Notre Dame, I’m sorry to report that the infection has spread even to my alma mater. Vice President Mike Pence will speak at Notre Dame’s commencement this Sunday, May 21st, but […]

Today we bring you a presentation by PRI’s founder and president, Steven Mosher. In a recent address in Wisconsin, Mr. Mosher gave an eloquent and moving account of his conversion long ago, when he left behind a promising role as a secular social scientist at a prestigious American University to become a leader in the […]

PRI Review for April 10, 2017 Contempt For The Family Abounds On The Left; Father of Four Forcibly Sterilized in China; President Trump Stops All Funding To UNFPA The popular culture’s disdain for marriage often waxes ineloquently into outright contempt. Let’s face it. The Left can’t stand genuine marriage: taking after Karl Marx, they deny […]

The European Union strikes out at Third World Babies in doomed attempt for demographic survival; The Vatican Hosts The Enemy, starring Paul Ehrlich;; Can Rogue Federal Judiciary Be Controlled? Yes, but Congress has to assert its constititutional powers.

Catholic Bishops Write Secretary of State with unurual priorities; China in Uproar over IUD removal; Norway Funds International Abortions

From primary school through graduate school, government funding comes with a high price tag – control. When Horace Mann founded the public school movement in the 1850s, it was designed to combat the growth of Catholic schools that were independent and religious. Early government school pioneers like Mann and John Swett of California sought state control of children, and opposed the fundamental right of parents to guide their children's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual growth.

Catholic education flourished at all levels until the government started funding it. Before 1965, new schools and churches and colleges were appearig throughout the country. Since then, however, countless schools have been closing, and those that have survived have lost their uniquely Catholic character – even though the educational quality of their secular counterparts has collapsed.

PRI WEEKLY BRIEFING   Prospects for Life; Prospects for Federal Courts; Duterte Challenges Philippines Supreme Court.   February 1, 2017 Last week over half a million pro-lifers marched in Washington in loving memory of the 58 million children killed by abortion in America since the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. This time around, they […]

Trouble In China's Two-Child Policy - demographics is colliding with ideology; Government Funding Poses Problems for Catholic Education as hard-left attacks moral policies; Indian States Impose Limit On Families of Employees, forcing many to quit, others to consider aborting third child

Senate Judiciary Committee Refers Planned Parenthood to FBI for Criminal Investigation; With Financial and Cultueral Challenges, Are Families An Endangered Species? FDA Requires ESSURE Warning Labels on All Packages Due to Hundreds of Serious Complications

PRI President Steve Mosher Joins International Scholars in Defense of Humanae Vitae; Obama Administration Threatens Catholic Schools by perverse addition to Title IX; UN Negligence Caused Haiti’s Worst Cholera Epidemic Ever;  New Mexico High School Students Subjected to Trauma dissecting baby brains