Month: August 2024

Lenin everlasting. On the totalitarian’s continued relevance.

The New Criterion.June 2024. Later in this issue, Gary Saul Morson writes about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago. Much of that book is devoted to the details of the dehumanizing brutality of the Stalinist regime: its terrifying sadism and staggering assault on basic human dignity. The Stalinist horror show, in which terror was perfected in… Read More Lenin everlasting. On the totalitarian’s continued relevance.

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David Starkey on Keir Starmer & Schellenberger on “Tyranny”

Supremacy and Rule of Lawyers… “What does Keir Starmer actually want? The UK’s new Labour prime minister is usually described as moderate, pragmatic and non-ideological. Here, historian and broadcaster David Starkey argues that this is an illusion. Starmer, Starkey explains, is a fierce anti-democrat. He wants to transfer power from the UK’s elected parliament to… Read More David Starkey on Keir Starmer & Schellenberger on “Tyranny”

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Nagasaki Was A Strike Against Japan And The Catholic Church

Victor Gaetan is senior international correspondent for the National Catholic Register 8/21. The closer we look at decisions to deploy a second atomic weapon against Japan on August 9, [1945…] the more morally audacious the tactic appears. Step outside the American explanatory cloud—we bombed military installations to force unconditional imperial surrender—defining public understanding to see:… Read More Nagasaki Was A Strike Against Japan And The Catholic Church

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Opinion. Rory Sewart & Alastair John Campbell on Riots in the UK and American Politics

Updated re Alastair Campbell and Douglas Murray. 8/13/24.  Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, writer and former diplomat and politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. Stewart served in the UK Government as Minister of State for Environment (2015-16), International Development (2015-16), Africa (2016-18) and Prisons (2018-19) and then as Secretary of State for International Development (2019). In 2019, Stewart stood for Leader of… Read More Opinion. Rory Sewart & Alastair John Campbell on Riots in the UK and American Politics

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Archbishop Sheen’s Warning of a Crisis in Christendom. 1974.

National Catholic Register. With a saintly long-ranging spiritual vision, Ven. Fulton J. Sheen saw the roots of today’s crisis firmly planted and growing in 1974, but he gave us an antidote. Joseph Pronechen July 29, 2018 “First of all, we are at the end of Christendom,” Archbishop Fulton Sheen solemnly said during a television show in… Read More Archbishop Sheen’s Warning of a Crisis in Christendom. 1974.

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Red Diaper Baby?

It is alleged. Democrats are stuck with Kamala Harris as their nominee against Donald Trump and are working hard to whitewash her record. Google Search Engine put on notice. Kamala Harris has *extensive* communist ties. Author and Filmmaker Trevor Loudon writes,  “I have conducted painstaking research into Kamala Harris, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee. My… Read More Red Diaper Baby?

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Trent Horn on the Emptiness of Political Christianity

Trent takes on the empty absurdities on the other end of the ideological spectrum in so-called “political Christianity.” One good example of “junk” liberal Christianity can be found in a 2019 New York Times interview with Serene Jones, a Protestant minister and president of Union Theological Seminary. Here are a few of her “deepities”: “[The] empty tomb… Read More Trent Horn on the Emptiness of Political Christianity

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Cardinal Gerhard Mueller on  Misunderstandings of Liturgical Substance and Unity

In this interesting interview, despite the heading given by Maike Hickson, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller says he believes Pope Benedict XVI understood liturgical development in the context of sacred Tradition correctly, without prejudice to previous expressions of the same sacred Sacrifice. Diversity of rites have always existed side by side in the Church. Müller accepts diversity… Read More Cardinal Gerhard Mueller on  Misunderstandings of Liturgical Substance and Unity

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Harmony and Differences on Predestination in Catholic Theology

Reginald Garrigou Lagrange and St. Alphonsus Ligouri. The New Oxford Review has been interested in this important subject recently and so I thought the following might assist those likewise interested and / or baffled by it all. See also other essays by following links regarding predestination, grace, free will, etc at this website. 1. Catholic… Read More Harmony and Differences on Predestination in Catholic Theology

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