President John F. Kennedy in the Workers Paradise where all were “equal,” June 26, 1963. Today JFK would likely not be welcome in the new Democratic Party.
10 Most Amazing Berlin Wall Escapes
“The Berlin wall was constructed in the early 1960s to divide the city. West-Berlin was capitalist and free, but the East was under Soviet control. The Soviets built the wall to prevent East-Berliners from escaping west. But 5 thousand did escape. Here are some of their stories.
In Cuba too affordable housing is always available. Freedom, not so much.
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Secular Revolution & Religious Revival: A History Lesson
By Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative
History is full of surprises. One such surprise is the manner in which the secularist cataclysm of the French Revolution prompted a religious revival across the Channel in England. It was indeed ironic that the new spirit of absolute religious intolerance in France following that country’s Revolution of 1789 prompted a new spirit of relative toleration of Catholicism in England. “When I went to France,” wrote the historian and political commentator William Cobbett, who visited the country in 1792, “I was full of all the prejudices that Englishmen suck in with their mother’s milk against the French and against their religion: a few weeks convinced me that I had been deceived in respect to both.”
The English people in general and the aristocracy in particular were shocked by the barbarism of the French Revolution and the infamous Reign of Terror that followed in its wake. As stories of aristocrats, priests and nuns being guillotined came to the attention of the people of England, there was a spontaneous outpouring of sympathy for the Revolution’s victims. England opened its doors to Catholic refugees from France, leading to an influx of new Catholics, adding to the waves of Irish immigrants who had begun arriving in England’s cities during the previous decades. Among the refugees were some eight thousand emigré priests, admitted by the government and permitted to not only practice their faith but to minister to English Catholics.
Catholic Critique 