Good Fences, Shared Bounty. Can it ever be wise to separate compassion, reasonable limits and common sense? If you have followed the immigration debates in the West in recent decades you will have long ago gotten a glimpse of the fears, greed, fanaticism and wars which, often enough, make many peoples in our post 9/11… Read More Immigration, Birds of a Feather and Trojan Horses
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
Updated. What is the political Left hiding? “The French Revolution is the model”. In this long-overdue episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host Dr. James Lindsay takes you through the main body of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: preface, chapter one, and chapter two. In a subsequent episodes (Volume Two in this mini-series) he will… Read More There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again
Biographer Charles Moore said “Europe was Thatcher’s ultimate downfall as The Cabinet were alarmed that Thatcher wanted to turn the issue of Europe over to the British people through a Euro Referendum and a general election at which Europe would have been a central issue.” Also, revealed for the first time is the manner in… Read More The Plot Against Margaret Thatcher Over Europe
Finishing off what the French Revolution began. Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C. (born Anton Schneider on 7 April 1961) is a Catholic prelate, serving as the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan. Schneider is known for his traditionalism. He has criticized clergy members who he believes do not fully adhere to the faith and instead surrender to what he calls a “cruel pagan world.” In 2014, he… Read More Goal of Mass Islamicization of Europe: Destroy Christian Past
Updated. Calling out Europe on its Human Rights contradictions, promiscuous immigration laws and its failure to provide for its own security aims. Link to speech here Also: PARIS—Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that… Read More JD Vance’s History Making Speech to Munich Conference 2025
This is Dr. Starkeys fatal flaw. The nuclear and extended family, contrary to his opinions, was always central and vital in Catholic England, reflecting traditional Catholic doctrine and a unified people. After the Tudors and Luther, however, it was all downhill, accelerating right down to today’s moral tyranny. Dr. Starkey may have personal reasons for… Read More Good David Starkey’s Fatal Flaw
— from Part II of the Catholics & American Life Symposium. New Oxford Review. January-Febuary 2025. On Christmas Day 1886, 18-year-old Paul Claudel — raised Catholic but delinquent in his faith — was listening to vespers in Notre-Dame de Paris. It was an event that “dominates my entire life,” he later recounted. “My heart was touched, and… Read More Karl Keating: Catholics & American Life
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:28-29 Not a few on the political far Right, alas, seem… Read More Not Ethnicity or Race, Not Blood and Soil…
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..
After the horrors of World War II, it is little wonder that Pope John Paul II during his long pontificate placed such great emphasis on the “dignity of the human person” who is made in the image and likeness of God (Gen. 1:26,27) For this sacred dignity that he spoke of was utterly rejected by… Read More John Paul II, Benedict XVI and a New World Order
Brad S. Gregory is Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame, a world-class historian, and award-winning author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe and The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard… Read More The Reformation: Historical Conditions, Unintended Consequences
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… Read More Joseph Pearce on Secular Revolution & Hope: A History Lesson
Ireland. So, you asked me,“Where’s it going?” Well, it’s pretty dark… Evil, in a strange way, brings us together, forces us to discover strands of commonality and fellowship in our seemingly divergent cultures. When I was growing up, the particularities of my homeland, Ireland seemed to function as a barrier to connections with other places.… Read More Explaining the Cycle of Ireland’s Constant Destruction. John Waters.
Updated. Gavin Mortimer, of The Spectator UK, writes, “The riots that have ravaged France in recent days have given Eric Zemmour a second wind. The leader of the right wing Reconquest party has been on the airwaves and in the newspapers, saying, with a touch of schadenfreude, ‘I told you so’. In a television interview on… Read More France’s riots are fuelling division over Europe’s migrant crisis and depopulation
Urges Hungary to welcome migrants. America Magazine (CNS): “As expected, in his first speech in Hungary—to government and civic leaders and diplomats serving in Budapest—the pope acknowledged efforts to protect traditional values, but insisted those values include supporting European unity, welcoming migrants and working to end the war in neighboring Ukraine… Mentioning some areas of… Read More Pope Francis Repeats Words on Gender Ideology, Abortion and Migrants
Damian Thompson associate editor of The Spectator writes, “Ludwig van Beethoven had a profound faith in God. He was born and raised a Catholic and on his deathbed he asked to receive the Last Rites. He told the priest, ‘I thank you, ghostly sir – you have brought me comfort.’ One of his closest friends,… Read More Why didn’t Beethoven Go to Mass?
WSJ: Oct. 22, 2022—”Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy’s prime minister on Saturday, assuming power at the helm of a right-wing coalition already beset by internal squabbles over Rome’s position toward Moscow. “A staunch Atlanticist, Ms. Meloni has said her government will be steadfast in its support for Ukraine and in its opposition to… Read More Giorgia Meloni, Taking Power in Italy, Promises a Pro-Western Course
We can thank Socialists and Cultural Marxists for that. But Fascist? “Leftists use the smear “fascist” so often that the word has become completely untethered from its original meaning. Much like the term “racist,” “fascist” is simply shorthand for anyone who opposes leftism” Crisis Magazine online: “According to the corporate media, the West seems to… Read More Europe, it seems, is moving to the Right.
And the order of creation: “The cradle of society is the family. A nation’s unity starts in the family too.” That extends into the community of citizens of the different regions, social classes and religions, she said. The Government policy therefore is focused on encouraging family formation, the Hungarian President explained. “Let us protect the… Read More Hungarian President on the Family
And on why he sees the United States as primarily responsible for what Ukraine and the world is going through today When it comes to Liberal Democratic Internationalism enforced on others by every means, says John Mearsheimer, the difference between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. has traditionally been no more than tweedledum and tweedledee.… Read More Mearsheimer on the False Promise of Liberal Hegemony
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