“Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream”—John Lennon Perhaps it is one of those curious fearful symmetries that the words of John Lennon quoted above are found in the Beatles’ album titled ‘Revolver’…and that he was finally gunned down, shot multiple times in the back by a “fan”. I grew up reading Kerouac… Read More John Lennon and The Seductions of Beautiful Nothing
Heather Mac Donald – Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of When Race Trumps Merit – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss why Zohran Mamdani’s victory will fuel crime, poverty and anti-Semitism in New York City. Watch the Dialogue / Analysis: Heather MacDonald with Brendan O’Neill ~~~
Christ came not only to justify us by His grace but also to truly sanctify us by his grace. “Strive for peace with all men, and for holiness without which no one shall see the Lord.”— Hebrews 12:14 “What is Purgatory but a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who depart this life… Read More On Purgatory
In a time of deep confusions, as the Church appears to be receding from the market places and thought of the world, all the more the Cross emerges in our lives. Hard as it is, this cannot be bad news. There is joy, then, even here where we are. With Him The mystery.
“EVERY man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised… Read More Still so much to strive for. Thank God for This Day.
Hopes Trump Collects As Much as Possible. “The BBC acts on behalf of the state. What do you think the BBC World Service is? It’s MI6 with a microphone.” See the entire statement here The BBC claimed to be “impartial” in its coverage of Israel and Gaza, but many, including Mr. Galloway, believe the BBC… Read More Galloway: The BBC is “MI6 With a Microphone”.
“The entire world exists only in order to be televised,” Steven Shaviro writes in “Connected: what it means to live in the network society“. “Today, we are inclined to see nearly everything in terms of connections and networks. The network is the computer, we like to say. We think that intelligence is a distributed, networked… Read More Regulating the Connections Regulating Us
Tucker Carlson claims he was attacked by demons that left him with claw marks The Independent UK. Tucker Carlson makes an astonishing claim in a clip posted to the YouTube channel for Christianities?, an upcoming documentary. The former Fox News host says he was “physically mauled” by a demon [2 years] ago that left him bleeding and with still-visible scars on… Read More Was Tucker Carlson Losing It — or Finding it?
Yes, if we don’t allow it to eclipse our faith & devotions. “…Jesus seems to have directly avoided politics while highlighting that we should “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” All during Jesus’ ministry, the crowds (and even His own disciples) wanted Him to become a political leader and… Read More Is Political Involvement Worth It?
Updated / Apostasy is cruel. Not only does it walk “the broad way which leads to eternal destruction” (Matthew 7:13), but increasingly, in an age of bewilderment and despair, it leads straightway to temporal destruction as well, whether from AIDS, Fentanyl, euthanasia, or death by one’s own hand. Apostasy is cruel because, as St. Paul… Read More Of UFOs, Apostasy, and Death
From the very beginnings of the Church some Christians have been tempted by the esoteric errors of gnosticism. Just when you thought that the Apostasy could not get more bizarre: “Traditional Catholic” Apostasy and Esotericism —- with Tarot Cards. The Fall of Dr. Wolfgang Smith. — April 08, 2021, Radtrad Thomist, website Dr. Chojnowski (SSPX):… Read More Charles Coulombe and The Fall of Wolfgang Smith
Tax the corporations not farmers. A record number of 6,365 farms have closed in the UK over the past year (as of July 2025), largely due to changes in inheritance tax policies implemented by Chancellor Rachel Reeves. This represents the highest rate of closures since data collection began in 2017, with many farmers citing financial… Read More Record Number of UK Farms Shut in Wake of Inheritance Tax
“All times of upheaval begin as surprises and end as clichés. Such is the fate of the great tidal swells of history—especially in a shorthand culture where insatiable media grind the flux of the world into the day’s sound bites.” I listened to some terrible prognostications recently from men and women who made me think… Read More Send in the clowns…
….and Tucker Carlson’s Revisionist Friend. From the sources. At the center of the Nazi Experiment is the Jewish Question, undeniably. The Jewish Question amounts to asking “what should we do with the Jews?” in this case, in Europe. Across the entirety of his project, Adolf Hitler had a straightforward answer, though the specifics differed: get rid of them,… Read More James Lindsay on Hitler’s Final Solution
Originally published on August 8 Israel today is showing that an horrific war begun will be horrifically won or lost, as with most wars in history. The lesson? Don’t even think of starting such a war unless you are prepared to finish it. For Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart or anyone else to feign moral indignation only shows… Read More Hamas and Iran. Get Real.
How to pray in moral anguish. Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene shows the way, “O Truth, light of my soul, do not permit the darkness to frighten me. You have allowed me to walk in it, and now I am in obscurity. But even from the darkness, even from there, I have loved You.… Read More Do not permit the darkness to frighten me.
A SLIP OF THE TONGUE OR A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME? By Monica Migliorino Miller | New Oxford Review. November 2025. Monica Migliorino Miller, a Contributing Editor of the NOR, is Director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and author of Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars and, most recently, In the Beginning:… Read More A Critique of Leo XIV’s Comments on Changing Church Doctrine
Look at the smiles! So much to smile about! Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell are “charmed” by this Internationalist Communist and Muslim (Watch out England!) Practically all the Leftists love him! “A smile to die for!” He “campaigned in poetry!” The new Che! A dream come true for these two Internationalists who were chased out of… Read More The Rise of the (Wealthy) Proletariat
(Originally published in Journal of Anglican Studies, 2005, 3 (2), 181–96 originally titled Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” Forty Years On. N.T. Wright.) N.T. Wright. Honest to God, published in 1963, was one of the most public religious bestsellers of the twentieth century. Because it was written by an Anglican bishop it was especially controversial. Yet there are questions… Read More Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright.
NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK… By Pieter Vree | November 2025 | New Oxford Review | Subscribe: print and / or digital Pieter Vree is Editor of the NOR. “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.” ― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash… Read More Assassination Nation
Tech Moguls, Financial Elites and the Danger of Oligarchy. “What Marxism got right is this: Social classes exist; some of the time, they have some common interests that conflict with the interests of other classes; and class inequality can, if allowed to grow too extreme, become a major social problem. Conservatives once widely recognized at least the… Read More What Marxism Got Right
“The Patriarchs” of the ten tribes are men whose God-given task, even to risking death, is to protect family, especially women and daughters when in danger; because woman carries the very future in her womb. Hierarchy in Church and family has no retirement or expiration date. But even many so-called conservative (or ‘Trad’) couples are… Read More Abiding Patriarchy
November 11, 2025 By: Robert Morrison | RemnantNewspaper.com Columnist [Note: The term “ape church” refers to a concept introduced by Bishop Fulton Sheen, describing a potentially counterfeit church that mimics the true Church and is in danger of being devoid of its divine essence. This “ape church” is seen as a deceptive force that leads people… Read More Comparing the Marks of the Catholic Church and the Synodal Church
“All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God,” Christians and non-Christians alike. “If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”— 1 Jn.1:10 All we, like sheep, have gone astray,each of us has turned to our own way; — Isaiah 53:6 “For… Read More Truth and “Catholic Guilt”
by Timothy Snyder, Yale University. “In the history of the Holocaust, Auschwitz was a place where the third technique of mass killing was developed, third in chronological order and also third in significance. The most important technique, because it came first, because it killed the most Jews, and because it demonstrated that a final solution by mass killing was… Read More The Real “Holocaust Narrative”: Hitler’s World.
On March 21, 1960, at approximately 2 PM, Ricardo Klement got off the bus in the San Fernando section of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his hands was a bouquet of flowers. He was greeted at the door of 16 Garibaldi Street by his wife and children who appeared dressed for a special occasion. Little did… Read More Authority After Adolf Eichmann
No, Churchill Was Not the Villain. Andrew Roberts. The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on Tucker Carlson’s show that Winston Churchill “was the chief villain of World War II,” which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that… Read More “Staggering Ignorance” Regarding Churchill and Hitler
Killing pits (in German: Tötungsgrube) all over Eastern Europe and beyond . Speaker: Professor Timothy Snyder ( lecture access below). Recorded on 11 March 2014 in Old Theatre, Old Building. Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the Nazi plan for the systematic genocide of the Jewish population in Europe, resulting in the murder of approximately six million Jews from 1941… Read More The Origins of the Final Solution
Military historian Victor Hanson shows how alt-Right men like Tucker Carlson and women like Candace Owen have collapsed into the deranged, obsessive errors of persons like E. Michael Jones and even the Nazi ideologues themselves. History has been discarded by these in the interests of finding scapegoats to blame. Ideology is the essence of the… Read More Ideology, not ethnicity or race, is the essence of the historical horrors
James Lindsay: Communists have to get inside institutions to subvert and transform them. Getting into them requires tactics. The name for these tactics is entryism, or sometimes just entrism, and it describes how a hostile ideological force goes about getting inside an institution that wouldn’t normally accept it. It’s a key concept for stopping Woke… Read More The Long March Through the Institutions
Rod Dreher. “It’s possible to miss the onslaught of totalitarianism, precisely because we have a misunderstanding of how its power works. In 1951, poet and literary critic Czesław Miłosz, exiled to the West from his native Poland as an anti-communist dissident, wrote that Western people misunderstand the nature of communism because they think of it… Read More The “Gentleness” of “Soft” Totalitarianism
The Catholic Herald. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to revisit its 2015 ruling that legalised same-sex marriage across the country. The court turned away an appeal by Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples on religious grounds. The decision, made without comment… Read More US Supreme Court refuses to revisit same-sex marriage ruling
Has Oxford Awakened from its Wokeness? Not Yet. “Oxford University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. It was founded in the 11th century, and its history is closely linked to the history of Christianity in England. At the time of its founding, the university was primarily a religious institution, and… Read More God and Man at Oxford
By Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., Providence. . No matter who we are, or who we think we are, we will all fulfill God’s plan; and we walk freely in that direction every day. “Everything which comes to pass has been foreseen by God from all eternity, and has been willed or at least permitted by Him“. ”Many… Read More The Symphonic Universe: Darkness and Light, Justice and Mercy
The New Criterion October 2005 Rediscovering Matisse by Hilton Kramer On Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954, by Hilary Spurling. Even those of us who have loved Matisse’s work since we began to look at paintings as a serious interest could not have suspected what it had cost this great artist… Read More Rediscovering Matisse. Hilton Kramer.
And today. How Mamdani Won. Who he is and where is he going? See hére
Well, unless you’ve found a good and sound school (and they’re certainly out there), in your first theology courses you may not learn much about the biblical Jesus, but you’re almost guaranteed to come out knowing what these early 20th century theological neologism’s mean: formgeschicte, heilsgeschichte, eschatologiegeschichte, Menschheitsgeschichte, Gottesgeschichte, Heilsgeheimnis… I personally never found them edifying… Read More Going to Seminary?
James Bishop’s Encyclopedia of Religion, Society and Philosophy Dan Brown in his book The Da Vinci Code (2003) writes, “Nothing in Christianity is original.” In recent times a number of people are claiming that the historical Jesus is simply a rehash of older pagan secretive religions, and of the religions of dying and rising gods. This is a view… Read More Why we know Jesus is not a copy of pagan religions
by Dr. Tom Snyder, PhD. Joseph Campbell “didn’t have an ideology or a theology,” claims reporter Bill Moyers in his 1988 The Power of Myth television series, frequently broadcast on PBS stations across America. During the six hours of intense interviews with the late mythologist, however, Campbell proves Moyers wrong. The supposedly non-existent theology of Campbell permeates… Read More Myth Perceptions, Joseph Campbell’s Power of Deceit
Updated. What really happened on October 7?. SH Introductory Note: “… blindness in part has happened in Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in…as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.” The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent states: “This guilt [for the death of Christ]… Read More James Lindsay Goes to Israel
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