Updated. Brussels (Reuters) – A top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from countries such as Russia and China. “If we can make sure that all crucial services and goods can… Read More NATO tells business leaders to prepare for ‘wartime scenario’
Did “Hamas actually want Israel to invade Gaza? Is there a danger that this tragic situation will strengthen the hand of the ultra-nationalist Israeli right? How should the international community respond to the war between Israel and Hamas?Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart last year were joined by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari to address all… Read More Can Israel Ever Live Peacefully With Gazans Again?
Dawn McCarty writes regarding our broken immigration system, “The immigration laws on the books are designed to fail. That is their purpose. Making it virtually impossible for most workers to be admitted legally, in the face of both a tremendous need for their labor in this country and the difficulty or impossibility of their getting… Read More Are Corporate Entities Deliberately Creating an Underclass of Low-Paid Workers?
Updated Nov. 24. President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea’s deployment of thousands of troops to aid Moscow’s war effort, according to two senior U.S. officials. The move precedes by two months the return to the White House of… Read More Biden approves Ukraine’s use of long-range U.S. weapons inside Russia
Lewis: “Christian teachers wish to recall Christian people to domesticity—and I, for one, believe that people must be recalled to it. The first necessity is to stop telling lies about home life and to substitute realistic teaching. Perhaps the fundamental principles would be something like this. 1. Since the Fall no organization or way of… Read More C.S. Lewis on ‘Brutal’ Truths About Family
Assisted suicide is in the news and on lawmakers’ agendas. Supporters call it “aid in dying” and claim it is just another option for ending intolerable pain as part of end-of-life care. But assisted suicide is radically different from end-of-life care and the practice of palliative care, the healing art of relieving pain and other… Read More Killing the Pain, Not the Patient: Palliative Care vs. Assisted Suicide
Updated. Washington Post / NYT. “If confirmed, Kennedy “would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history….” former Trump Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. “Kennedy sent mixed signals on his abortion beliefs during his White House run. He suggested in May that he supported no government restrictions on abortion but later walked it… Read More Mike Pence Says RFK Jr. Would Be “Most Pro-abortion HHS Secretary in History”
Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts are senior fellows at the Hoover Institution and among the most prestigious and popular historians in the world. This is the first time they have appeared together in a public forum. Among the topics they cover in this wide-ranging discussion: the recent controversy regarding Winston Churchill’s role… Read More What the 1619 Project and Tucker Carlson Have in Common: Pseudo-history
Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on “How the New Deal Coalition Fell Apart” in the DNC Chicago riot of 1968. After a moment of goofy kidding around mimicking the “Yippies,” Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland tell the most dramatic story of this seminal event which many of us saw on our TVs, horrifying our… Read More The Riot That Tore the Democratic Party Apart: Chicago 1968.
“Dickens must have known it would have worked on the consciences of the Parliamentarians too, as it did!” At least for a time. “By advocating that population should be controlled voluntarily through birth control, abstinence, or delayed marriage – or involuntarily, and through the scourges “of war, famine, and disease,” [Thomas] Malthus was derided by his peers… Read More Scrooge and Thomas Malthus
September 2024. “We officially record our dissent regarding the “Pact of the Future”, and invite all the nations of the free world to join us, not only in dissenting this pact but also for creating a new agenda for this noble institution (The UN). The agenda of FREEDOM From this day forward Argentina will be… Read More Argentine President Declared Globalism “Collectivism With Malthusian Blinders” Over
Updated. “Yesterday was a bad day for those who endorse “America first” in our foreign policy. With reported Trump appointments of neocons Elise Stefanik (UN Ambassador), Mike Waltz (National Security Advisor), and…Marco Rubio (Secretary of State). Many who hoped that Trump 2.0 would be different than Trump 1.0 are feeling dejected and betrayed. Is there… Read More Ron Paul: Glad It’s Not A Communist, But Are the NeoCons Back?
Mgr. Louis Gaston de Ségur writes, “The good God does everything in His time. His wisdom united itself to His mercy in giving to the Church the divine treasure of the Heart of Jesus for the time when it was going to have the greatest need of it. The Savior said so Himself, first to… Read More The Sacred Heart in a Time of Tribulations
Updated. “Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke ranks with the conservative majority on the Supreme Court Friday, leveraging strong words against her colleagues for their interpretation of Fischer v. United States. After the court ruled 6–3 that the Justice Department overstepped in charging hundreds of January 6 rioters with obstruction, the Trump-appointed conservative judge used her dissenting… Read More Amy Barrett rips Supreme Courts January 6 obstruction case.
There is very little surprise anymore. When children’s minds and souls are being warped beyond belief, when high and low clergymen are falling like flies, when churches themselves in consequence become a laughing stock, when half of all marriages in the West fail, when sex trafficking on the Internet is another ubiquitous reality, when the… Read More The Ubiquity of Pornography..
In the past 20 years, a disturbing number of Southern Baptists with formal church roles have engaged in sexual misconduct, a new investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News reveals. They were pastors. Deacons. Youth pastors. They left behind more than 700 victims….the stories of those victims, the depths of the crimes and… Read More 20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse. And Damian Thompson on Justin Welby.
“O Lord, You are my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? You are the protector of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident. One… Read More Whom Shall I Fear? Expect the Lord.
“We, the Ordinary People of the Streets“. The words express the core of Madeleine Delbrel’s vision: These are the people who have an ordinary job, an ordinary household, or an ordinary celibacy. People with ordinary sicknesses, and ordinary times of grieving. People with an ordinary house, and ordinary clothes. These are the people of ordinary… Read More We the Ordinary
By Mike Kerrigan WSJ / MSN. Shortly after passing through airport security, I realized my shoes were in desperate need of a shine. I stopped at Executive Shine in Charlotte, N.C., and took a seat in the regal bank of elevated chairs. An employee approached and, after confirming I was good on time, got to… Read More A Blessing for the Sole.
by Thomas W. Carroll.First Things.11 . 5 . 24 / An alarming number of children from Catholic families lose their faith during elementary and secondary school. By age thirteen, 50 percent fall away from the Church; by eighteen, it’s 86 percent. This exodus is not unique to Catholics—other Christian communities struggle with similar problems. But… Read More Reclaiming Our Catholic Schools
11.8.24 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced legislation this week to ban social media for children under 16. The proposed law, set to be introduced in Parliament in the coming weeks, would require platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X, to bar access to children and teenage users. There are no exceptions for parental consent. If approved,… Read More Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
Analysis / Opinion by Brendan O’Neill of Spiked Online. O’Neil has defended Catholics as well against instances of unfair hate-inspired “news” and black legend-like propaganda. He is author of the new book After the Pogrom.
Col. Douglas McGregor: The world has changed since Trump’s last term. It remains to be seen whether it is even possible for him to achieve his major foreign policy goals, specifically in the Mideast and vis a vis Ukraine and China. “In 2020, president Donald Trump proposed [McGregor] as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, but the U.S. Senate blocked the… Read More Trump in a Changed World
President-Elect Donald Trump vowed in March 2023 to form a “truth and reconciliation commission” as part of a comprehensive plan to dismantle the “Deep State.” The President-Elect has also promised to revoke the Biden administration’s “cruel policies” regarding gender-reassignment surgeries. These policies, he said, include giving kids puberty blockers and surgically mutilating their bodies. Trump labeled such… Read More Trump Vows to Dismantle Deep State
At the height of the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine under Joseph Stalin, starving people roamed the countryside, desperate for something, anything to eat. In the village of Stavyshche, a young peasant boy watched as the wanderers dug into empty gardens with their bare hands. Many were so emaciated, he recalled, that their bodies began to swell… Read More Why Did Communism Kill So Many of its Own People?
Matthew Hanley.The Catholic Thing.Jan 2012. It is no secret that secularists generally react to Christianity with hostility, but to Islam with obsequiousness – or silence in the face of belligerence and even of atrocities such as the Ft. Hood massacre. The most elementary explanation for this curious phenomenon, aside from cowardice, might simply come from… Read More Aquinas on Islam
Advent and Penance “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust,adulterers, or even like this tax collector.I fast twice a week, I give tithes of… Read More “Extortioners, adulterers, tax collectors…”
Combining reasonable truths with unreasonable anti-Christian animus, Lawrence Wilkerson, is a retired Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. With his extensive insights and expertise into the Middle East and American foreign policy, Wilkerson provides a valuable understanding into what a Trump presidency Since the end of his military… Read More The Left’s Irrational Fear of “Christian-Catholic Fascism”
Edward Pentin. National Catholic Register. Traditional Latin Mass communities are flourishing around the world with rising vocations and strong Mass attendance but their existence was ignored in the Synod on Synodality’s October assembly and final report. VATICAN CITY — One of the persistent criticisms of the final assembly of the Synod on Synodality has been… Read More Why Was the Synod So Silent on the Traditional Latin Mass?
Mocking retro-politics, retro-sexual morality and “Q-Anon Adjacent” traditional Catholics: “Beneath the veil of the internet’s ‘Trad Caths’”. “… there’s been an uptick in “Trad Cath” content — internet for “traditionalist Catholic” — promoting traditions like the Latin Mass and women wearing veils in church. A lot of these traditions are vibes and aesthetic-based, and easily… Read More NPR and the TLM
MARK ANTONIO WRIGHT November 6, 2024 7:11 AM The 2024 election will be discussed from a million angles. In the days and weeks ahead, the knives will come out in the ranks of the losers. Post-mortems will be written, and the arguments will be fought out over what could have been different or which strategies should have been tried.… Read More The Most Remarkable Political Comeback in American History
“Not only Cardinal Coccopalmerio’s proposal for a “permanent round table” of confrontation between the Church and Masonic lodges: at the meeting in Milan, Bishop Staglianò shatters the doctrinal approach and clears the way for openness in the name of Mercy.” Milan. “Dialogue, and even collaboration, between the Church and Freemasonry must go ahead, perhaps with… Read More Enter Freemasonry.
Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, proportionality and preemptive strikes. Fr. Charles McCarthy, a Melkite Catholic priest in Massachusetts, argues that it might be a “mortal sin” to vote for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in this 2024 Presidential election, since each, he says, are in various ways complicit in “grave evil” by supporting and enabling… Read More A Melkite Catholic Priest Bound to Infuriate Many.
It is better to fear the world’s admiration than to fear its mockery or ostracization. “He to whom the eternal Word speaks is set at liberty from a multitude of opinions.From one word are all things, and of this one all things speak; and this is the beginning which also speaketh to us. From one… Read More “Without this word no one understands or judges rightly”
Technology, being neutral in itself, can be used for good or evil. But with the development of the Atomic Bomb near the end of WWII and the proliferation and spread of all subsequent weapons of mass destruction, human kind entered a new phase of evil.+ Today additional technological advances, including total surveillance grids, appear more than… Read More The Dark Technological Grid Blanketing the Heavens and the Earth
+ Kissinger’s final warning and the Antichristic: “Prepare now for ‘superhuman’ people to control Earth…Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie’s bracing message, warning that AI tools have already started outpacing human capabilities so people might need to consider biologically engineering themselves to ensure they are not rendered… Read More Mad Elon Wants to “Wire Your Evolving Brain to the Internet”
And ‘Being Beethoven‘ a BBC documentary chronicling his genius, tragedies and glory. Also, Damian Thompson asks why didn’t Beethoven go to Mass? Too, How did Beethoven feel about Napoleon? And Missa Solemnis. Beethoven and the Catholic Church .By Michael De Sapio.Crisis Magazine. Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart form the great trinity… Read More Beethoven and the Catholic Church
… giving the once most beautiful state over to the Cartels. Imagine sleeping up in your bedroom when suddenly you hear noise downstairs. Looking out your window you see your home is being emptied of the things you worked so hard for. Nobody in the media ever mentions it, but Kamala Harris helped turn the… Read More How Kamala Harris turned Southern California into a Nightmare
The Curiosity of Family Ownership in the United States. By Phillip Campbell.The Distributist Review. In this essay we will consider an interesting social phenomenon in the United States whereby a very large number of small businesses across a variety of sectors are owned by first generation immigrants. If you do not know what I mean,… Read More The Blessings of Legal Immigration. Aspiring to Ownership.
Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that ‘The War on Drugs has failed’. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law. Peter Hitchens shows that in Britain there has been no serious ‘war on drugs’ since 1971, when a Tory… Read More Peter Hitchens: The War We Never Fought
