Rory Stewart Attempts to Explain the History of the Israeli – Palestinian Conflicts

“How did Hamas launch one of the largest invasions on Israeli territory in recent history? What happens now? Will this conflict have geo-political ramifications throughout the Middle East? Join Rory and Alastair for this emergency episode of The Rest Is Politics. The CNN interview Rory mentions was with Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouti.” —… Read More Rory Stewart Attempts to Explain the History of the Israeli – Palestinian Conflicts

Bioethicists scrutinize Pontifical Academy for Life’s new guidance on withdrawing food, water

CNA. After the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAFL) last month issued a booklet summarizing the Church’s teaching on a number of bioethical issues, the section on “artificial nutrition and hydration” (ANH) has some observers concerned about what they see as a departure from previous Church teaching.  The Pontifical Academy for Life was founded in 1994 by St.… Read More Bioethicists scrutinize Pontifical Academy for Life’s new guidance on withdrawing food, water

A Note on Dr. Larry Chapp — at the edge of Hell. Nothing to lose.

Larry Chapp seems to express a kind of anxiety or apprehension in this video discussion about the obvious problem of the traditional magisterium as he comes “out of the closet” and reveals himself to be, of all things, an eschatological “universalist” wherein, in the end, we can all hope that Scripture and Tradition will be… Read More A Note on Dr. Larry Chapp — at the edge of Hell. Nothing to lose.

You May Know This Man

A self-identified socialist priest, Helder Pessoa Câmara (1909 – 1999) was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for  “human rights and democracy”. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people .  But that’s only part of his lies story…(more in the video). Get the film Benedict XVI and Liberation Theology National… Read More You May Know This Man

Karl Marx’s Racism

There are plenty of good reasons to abandon the teachings of Karl Marx. by Jarrett Stepman.The Daily Signal | July 13, 2020. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, economist, and sociologist whose writings formed the basis of modern communism.  Here’s What You Need to Remember: By the standards of modern “anti-racist” ideologies, Marx, Engels, and the whole… Read More Karl Marx’s Racism

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.

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”

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Lead To…

Right-Wing Extremism, Gov’t Report Warns… Feb. 2023. Author Douglas Murray published a scathing review of the British government’s counter-terrorism Prevent program, which has apparently reported that authors like George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis can radicalize readers. In his column, Murray described how Britain’s Prevent program was founded to support counter-terrorism efforts, but has gradually… Read More Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Lead To…

Gareth Jones, Malcom Muggeridge, and the Holodomor

Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor. In mid-October 1932 (less than a month after Malcolm Muggeridge had arrived in Moscow on the… Read More Gareth Jones, Malcom Muggeridge, and the Holodomor

Dave McCormick and Tulsi Gabbard on Kamala Harris Today

Updated. More Military Industrial Complex and The National Security State. They’ll run the show. Former Democrat Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard  is a combat veteran with three deployments to the Middle East and Africa.  Currently, Gabbard serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves working as a Civil Affairs Officer.  Gabbard… Read More Dave McCormick and Tulsi Gabbard on Kamala Harris Today

Kamala Harris Would Impose Abortions Up to Birth on All 50 States

“Kamala Harris is an abortion apologist who represents the extreme pro-abortion position of the Democratic Party. “Kamala Harris has acted as the unofficial Abortion Czar of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Tobias told LifeNews.com, “She has toured the country pushing unlimited abortion and criticizing protective state laws that support women and their preborn children.” As a presidential… Read More Kamala Harris Would Impose Abortions Up to Birth on All 50 States