Month: October 2025

Prominent English Scholar Says His Country’s Decline Began With the Reformation

Edward Pentin | National Catholic Register | February 26, 2025 | John Rist says the secularization and moral fragmentation in England stems from the cataclysmic 16th-century event and the ensuing rise of nontheistic rights theories. … He also discusses how the collapse of traditional Christianity, especially Catholicism, has left a void, leading to a de… Read More Prominent English Scholar Says His Country’s Decline Began With the Reformation

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Ross Douthat Interview with SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is playing the long game. In this week’s “Interesting Times,” She walks us through the current court’s most controversial rulings, why she believes that her originalist interpretations are resistant to ideological pressures and why she’s not comfortable thinking of herself as a cultural icon. 02:04​ – Balancing the personal… Read More Ross Douthat Interview with SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett

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Henry Havelock Ellis’ Vision for Carrying on the Human Race

Is masturbation and homosexuality the main answer to the “problem” of human procreation? Eugenicist Henry Havelock Ellis thought and taught so. Ellis was ahead of his time. Is his vision of fitness and population already underway? Is it moral? The Church answers no. But science (a philosophically loaded term if ever there was one) answers… Read More Henry Havelock Ellis’ Vision for Carrying on the Human Race

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“One of the greatest feats of his presidency”.

“Donald Trump has pulled off one of the greatest feats of his presidency by securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas—just nine months into his return to the presidency. From Iran and Israel to Ethiopia and Egypt, Kosovo and Serbia, and Pakistan and India, Trump approaches foreign policy through direct negotiation, economic leverage, and personal… Read More “One of the greatest feats of his presidency”.

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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich On the Infiltrations of a Dark Theology…

… and a present or future faithful and deeply spiritual Pope. Acts ch. 2: “‘In the latter time, God says,    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.Your sons and daughters will prophesy,    your young men will see visions,    your old men will dream dreams.18 Even on my servants, both men and women,    I will pour out my Spirit… Read More Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich On the Infiltrations of a Dark Theology…

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Reflections on Writing and Scholarship by an Autodidact, Joseph Pearce

By Joseph Pearce | February 13th, An interview by The Imaginative Conservative Joseph Pearce recently answered questions from students at Benedictine College about his career as a writer and scholar. Firstly, how do you go about choosing a subject for your non-fiction writings? In almost all cases, I was motivated to write on a particular subject… Read More Reflections on Writing and Scholarship by an Autodidact, Joseph Pearce

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By hunger alone

We shouldn’t target Jews for their alleged sins, as some do; or any peoples. We’ve got our own sins to occupy us. But let’s put down our nets, without anger and hatred and see who is attracted to the boat, driven by hunger alone. Meanwhile we pray for peace.

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Dr. Ralph Martin on Bishop Barron and the fraught legacy of Francis

… and the Challenges for Leo. “In his May 12 article in First Things — “Francis is Full” — Bishop Robert Barron eloquently wrote of the late Pontiff’s many positive accomplishments as well as some very serious problems like a legacy of disunity. Bishop Barron’s evaluation of Pope Francis’ ministry provides a lens through which… Read More Dr. Ralph Martin on Bishop Barron and the fraught legacy of Francis

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Seeing All Things in One

“The man to whom all things are one, who bringeth all things to one, who seeth all things in one, he is able to remain steadfast of spirit, and at rest in God” — Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Ch. 3. 15th century + Laity, Obedience and the Pope

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The Danger of Equating the Church with the Mass

By Victor Bruno | New Oxford Review, October 2025 Victor Bruno is an author whose writing has been featured in VoegelinView, The Political Science Reviewer, In Medias Res, Sacred Web, The Fortnightly Review, and elsewhere. He has two books published in Portuguese, the latest being René Guénon Revelado (2023). He also writes the newsletter Cartas da… Read More The Danger of Equating the Church with the Mass

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Pope Leo said to step up criticism of Israel’s campaign in Gaza…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The Vatican’s top diplomat sharply criticised Israel’s “ongoing massacre” in Gaza in comments published on Monday – one of the Catholic Church’s strongest condemnations of Israel’s war against the militant group Hamas. In an interview tied to the second anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, Cardinal Pietro… Read More Pope Leo said to step up criticism of Israel’s campaign in Gaza…

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Michael Davies on the Indefectibility of the Mass of Paul VI.

by Michael Davies.From Catholic, October 1996. The Catholic Church was founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son made Man. He has promised His Church that She will continue to exist exactly as He constituted her until He comes again in glory to judge the living and the dead. The Catholic Church is the Church that is indefectible. The… Read More Michael Davies on the Indefectibility of the Mass of Paul VI.

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Insularity

Insularity: speaks only to insiders or fans, alienating broader audiences. For example, a critic might say: “The film collapses under its own self-referential weight, obsessed with referencing itself rather than telling a compelling story.” God forbid that we Christians devolve into this kind of self-referential vanity. For all his problems, Pope Francis was correct in… Read More Insularity

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Edith Stein’s Cross

By Robert Coles |The New Oxford Review.September 1983. Note: Edith Stein was martyred in 1942 (aged 50) at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gau Upper Silesia, German-occupied Poland. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Cologne on May 1, 1987. Among the 20th-century conversions to Ro­man Catholicism, that of Edith Stein is surely one of the most edifying and memorable.… Read More Edith Stein’s Cross

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Emerging Unripe in a Godless Universe

Consider Materialism. Whatever his origin, if man is presently and constantly “evolving” in a godless universe, then it follows that his thinking, and especially his philosophical views, cannot be worth much ultimately; his thoughts would be inherently unstable, unguided, random, merely emerging fragments in process, or mutation, on route to nowhere. / sh

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Theology is a Progressive Device? 😟

& Sarah’s feminism. Yes Minister is a British political satire sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. Comprising three seven-episode series, it was first transmitted on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. A sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran for 16 episodes from 1986 to 1988. All but one of the episodes lasted half an hour, and almost all ended with a variation of the… Read More Theology is a Progressive Device? 😟

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Donald Trump Reportedly Shares Intelligence For Long-Range Strikes on Russia

‘Today, as Donald Trump reportedly provides Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes against Russia, we assess just how serious the economic situation is becoming amid reports of gas shortages. Then, as European leaders join President Zelensky in Copenhagen, we hear about the new ‘drone wall’ and how Moscow has upgraded its missiles to better… Read More Donald Trump Reportedly Shares Intelligence For Long-Range Strikes on Russia

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