Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review Online, writes a weekly column of conservative political and social commentary for Newspaper Enterprise Association. An award-winning journalist and editor who has been praised for "editorial daring," Lopez has covered issues as diverse as the left-wing takeover of the Girl Scouts to the war on terror. She writes frequently on bioethics, religion, feminism, education, and congressional politics, among other topics.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is editor-at-large of the widely read and cited daily webzine, National Review Online.
And award-winning opinion journalist who has been praised for her “editorial daring,” Lopez is also a nationally syndicated columnist with Universal UClick.
Besides commissioning, editing, and writing pieces as editor and now editor-at-large of NRO for more than a decade, her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Human Life Review, First Things, and Stars and Stripes, and on the websites of the New York Times and CNN among other publications, internationally.
She writes frequently for a variety of Catholic publications including Our Sunday Visitor, and is a columnist for The National Catholic Register and the Knights of Columbus’s Headline Bistro.
Among many varied places, her work has been cited in Playboy (they were not fans).
Lopez is a frequent guest on radio and television programs internationally, from PBS and CNN to EWTN and Vatican Radio. She has been a guest host on William J. Bennett’s nationally syndicated morning show.
In 2002, Lopez and National Review Online were awarded the Center for Military Readiness Spotlight Award for national-defense coverage. She has been recognized by Feminists for Life, the Bioethics Defense Fund, and Manhattan’s Midtown Pregnancy Support Center for her culture-of-life commentary and reporting.
Commonly known as “K-Lo” online, on talk radio, and around Washington, Lopez speaks frequently on faith and public life, the dignity of human life, and feminism, among other topics. She has addressed events sponsored by Legatus, the Knights of Columbus, the American Political Science Association, the Heritage Foundation, the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the Milken Institute, and on the campuses of Harvard, Yale, the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Ave Maria University, and at Lincoln Center and the National Press Club.
She is a graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she studied philosophy and politics. She has been a fellow at the Claremont Institute and serves on the Archdiocese of New York’s Pro-Life Commission.
She can be found (for better or for worse) on Twitter, Facebook, and e-mail.
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A TRUE HERO IN WAR ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
They call it a war -- mainly, to dismiss it. As in: There go the Democrats again, fanning the flames of the culture wars, dividing Americans to win an election. But it's actually something very different that's going on.
Under the guise of tolerance and magnanimity, President Obama has been embracing a certain kind of radicalism that undermines the very institutions we've come to rely upon.
But where there are wars, there are prophets. There are brave ones who see threats on the horizon, lay groundwork, who make it possible for others to fight, who act as models by standing up for their beliefs in practical yet heartfelt ways. When it comes to the battle for religious liberty, Kevin Hasson is a true leader of men. Seamus, as almost everyone knows him, left a lucrative legal job to found the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in 1994.
Anyone who has been going to Becket's annual dinner knows something has dramatically changed. Every year, attendees hear about kids like Zachary Hood, who was a first-grader in a Medford, N.J., public school who wanted to read a story about Jacob and Esau from "The Beginner's Bible." God never came up in the book, but the school's administration determined it was verboten in the classroom because it "might influence others students" and was "the equivalent of praying."
Hasson's proudest moment might be Becket's representation of a Lutheran church school in a recent case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Hosanna-Tabor simply wanted the right to hire and fire its own ministers without government intervention. The court decided unanimously in the school's favor, winning the votes of justices appointed by a president who seems bent at chipping away the remnants of religious freedom.
Having stepped down as president of Becket on account of Parkinson's just prior to the landmark case, Hasson reflects: "I'm proud to say that happened without me. It's a lot like watching my kids play soccer."
When it's not about us -- when it's about a greater good and the highest of callings, we can truly make an impact, and build a legacy of selfless leadership that inspires something similar in others.
Giving thanks for Seamus, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York called religious liberty "our first and most precious freedom," noting, "without it, all others are in jeopardy." Hasson has made an investment in it with his life, reminding us that there are causes worthy of such devoted sacrifice.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, a past Becket honoree, recently told me: "Life is short. We'll be forgotten by everyone but God. Our home is heaven, and the politics of this world won't matter there. Charity, justice, courage, mercy -- these are the virtues, or their absence, that will shape our eternity. These are the things that really matter."
That may explain why Seamus and his wife, Mary, always look so happy -- and still manage to take the time to offer that wee bit of wisdom that can change a life now and again.
As Seamus put it: "I've had the great privilege of investing my life in religious freedom." For "if anyone in America doesn't have religious liberty, no one in America has religious liberty." You don't have to be a believer to believe that. When our first freedom is gone, atheists have as much to worry about as the evangelical.
Seamus' is a legacy to emulate -- it reminds us that there are men and women alive today who those who would curtail religious freedoms are not going to sideline -- in or out of court.
(Kathryn Lopez is the editor-at-large of National Review Online www.nationalreview.com. She can be contacted at klopez@nationalreview.com.)
COPYRIGHT 2012 United Feature Syndicatepublished Friday, May 11, 2012
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