Category Archives: Politics and Society
Politics and Society
Christendom no longer exists, but, nevertheless, Catholics must be active members of their respective societies and agents of justice in a world bereft of moral values. We must know history, not merely current events. European history, after the conversion of the nations, was the history of the Church. This history is certainly important to know. But, as Americans, we cannot afford to be ignorant of our own history. The virtue of patriotism, which is actually a natural manifestation of the supernatural gift of piety, demands that we have an appreciation for whatever is good in the history of this land of ours, not just after 1776, but since events were recorded here. The virtue of patriotism also obligates us to recognize the sins of our nation. “My country right or wrong,” is an evil axiom that changes patriotism into self-adulating nationalism.
As Catholics, we ought to be justly concerned about world events, especially about the persecution of the Church that is going on in other countries. Advantage ought to be taken of the many good Catholic outlets of information that are available today. Our website is a good source of the news that counts. From our religious perspective, we are able to bypass the useless information and disinformation that fills the major media, and provide the news that affects our lives as members of the Church militant. If it doesn’t help anyone sub specie aeternitatis (under the aspect of eternity) we don’t post it.
One World Religion or Religion of One World?
The biggest problem with Separation of Church and State is not that it is wrong, but that it does not and cannot exist. So long as every living man is made up of body and soul, God and Caesar will both have legitimate claims upon him — and these claims, at the best of times, may conflict. Moreover, he himself will often look to his … More →
Burning Question
Why do most “Catholic” politicians invoke their religion exactly when they are contradicting it in public?
Ed Rogers Skeptical on Obama’s SS Marriage ‘Evolution’
The President says that his thinking about same-sex “marriage” has evolved. Writing for the WaPo, Ed Rogers suspects a cynical political motive: Reality check: Obama manipulated gay voters, kept them at a distance and hoped they would settle for the occasional wink and a nod. But he has found himself in a campaign with dwindling enthusiasm and a narrowing electoral map; he needs this group’s … More →
Liechtenstein: Prince Alois Threatens to Veto Abortion Law
Liechtenstein’s Hereditary Prince Alois, a Catholic, has threatened to use his constitutional powers to veto a law allowing abortion in his tiny Alpine nation. This has led some to call for a referendum to remove the Hereditary Prince’s constitutional veto powers, which, in turn, has provoked the Prince to threaten withdrawal from the nation’s political life entirely. But: Wilfried Marxer, a political scientist and director … More →
Gov: Drone Assasinations are ‘Ethical, Legal, and Wise’
The Obama administration is defending its use of drones to assassinate people outside of combat zones without due process. In the linked article, the organizations cited against the government’s position in the matter are all leftist (like, for instance, the ACLU). This might lead someone of (neo) conservative leanings to assume that only leftists oppose the tactics. That would not be true. Paleoconservatives, who, like … More →
Lady Marines to Front?
Chivalry may not be dead, but it’s in critical condition. (The New York Times) The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women. Read more… Be it noted that the Germanic and Hibernian … More →
The United Nations and the Vatican
As noticed in our last instalment, the Holy See under the last several Pontiffs has chosen to collaborate with the United Nations in a number of areas, apparently in hopes that “creative engagement” may guide that body in better directions than mere opposition might do – as has been done a number of times with other governments and parties throughout history, with varying success. To … More →
Terminally Ill Bishop Sends Ailing President Chavez a Challenge to Truly Repent and Make Amends
Here is a clip from the letter as posted by Catholic News Agency: There is a phrase Jesus uses in the Gospel, which, by the way, Cardinal Urosa just mentioned on television, which says: “Not everyone who says Lord, Lord, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Heavenly Father.” You have displayed various acts of faith and … More →
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Ambassador to Vatican Hopes Hungary’s New Constitution Ignites a Christian Renaissance
Zenit: Hungary’s Ambassador to the Holy See is rather perplexed by the negative reaction of some European figures and institutions to his country’s new Constitution — a document he sees as offering a possible impetus to a “Christian renaissance” in Europe. Read full report here.
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Diabolical Foreign Policy: Spreading Fruitlessness Abroad
Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon fostered a policy of government promotion of contraception. That is according to an article by Russell Shaw entitled “How U.S. government got tied up with contraception.” Mr. Shaw shows the complicity of certain high-profile Catholics in advancing the government-sponsored contraception agenda. (This has been mentioned on our site before.) I have excerpted a few paragraphs from Mr. Shaw’s article below. … More →
The Church and Globalism, Part I
For many orthodox Catholics, the word “globalization” immediately raises hackles — it evokes fears of loss of national sovereignty, of undesirable immigration, of Masonic conspiracy: in a word, the spectre of a Satanic “One-World Government.” Images of the Bilderbergers, the Round Table, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the World Federalist Movement, the European Union, and, of course, the United Nations come … More →
Libya: ‘Mission Accomplished’ as Islamists Desecrate Graves
The SSPX site La Porte Latine has a video of Libyan Islamists — now free to do such things — knocking over headstones on Christian and Jewish graves, and mauling a stone cross erected in the cemetery. Below is a translation of the major portion of the text on that site in French. The Apostolic Vicar to Libya warned that Nato’s bombing would cause much … More →
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Sandra Fluke: Insurance Must Cover Transgender Mutilation
“Sandra Fluke is not what she is being sold as. Instead she is a liberal activist pushing some rather radical ideas. Keep that in mind as the left holds her up in the spotlight.” So says Stephen Gutowski, who made a discovery about the random Georgetown co-ed who testified on behalf of that new victim class: downtrodden profligates. The discovery Mr. Gutowski made is that… … More →
Pat Buchanan: Anti-War, and Old Right
With a mind for modern history rarely equaled by rival wags, the fired conservative bad-boy of MSNBC still keeps articulating the case for a sane foreign policy. Talking such sense is what got him canned in the first place, God bless him. In For What, All These Wars?, he does the bitter accounting of our involvement in Afganistan, where a parliamentarian in the government we … More →
