(Patrick J. Buchanan) As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act … Continue reading
Category: Culture Wars
On Michael Voris and Church Militant: USA Today Doesn’t Get It
USA Today ran a lengthy piece on Michael Voris, Saint Michael’s Media, and Church Militant under the headline, “Right-wing fringe group building multimedia empire near Detroit.” The piece was written by Robert Allen, of the Detroit Free Press, which is owned by Gannett, the parent … Continue reading
The Abortion Idea
Ideas, it has been rightly said, have consequences. This is true of good ideas as well as of bad ones. When the idea that Christ’s missionary mandate to the Apostles ought to be followed was a dominant force in Christendom, … Continue reading
More Planned Parenthood Lies: ‘Prenatal Care’
(Live Action) Though Planned Parenthood claims that women depend on them for prenatal care, Live Action investigators had an incredibly hard time finding facilities that offered it—though they found plenty offering abortions. Live Action contacted all 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates … Continue reading
Sick New World
This past Saturday was the New Hampshire state March for Life in, Concord. Every year, this procession — organized by New Hampshire Right to Life — wends its way from the State House to the Church of Saint John the … Continue reading
Archbishop Carlo Liberati: ‘Everybody Will Be Muslim Because Of Our Stupidity’
We’ve been saying it for a while now (e.g., here, here, and here). A hateful Islamic militancy bent on dominating the lands of former Christendom will not be defeated by religious liberalism, by weakness (which is both detests and uses to its advantage), … Continue reading
The Election of Donald Trump: Could This Be Our Last Chance?
On November 8, 2016, much to the surprise of the politicians and those who support them, Donald Trump was elected to be the next president of the United States. Throughout the presidential campaign, foul mouthed insults and mud-slinging were so … Continue reading
Pray for Dr. Anthony Esolen
Dr. Anthony Esolen, author, translator, Dante scholar, and professor at Providence College, is under attack from the Orwellian diversity enforcers at PC for daring to criticize the direction they have chosen for the school. You can read sympathetic write-ups of his situation … Continue reading
George Soros: Profile of an Oligarch
When people claim that democracy tends to be manipulated by the oligarchs — as I have posited here, here, and here — it is men like the liberal atheist George Soros they have in mind. On the one hand, Mr. Soros sponsors groups … Continue reading
Does Catholic Moral Teaching Matter Any More?
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, three Catholic institutions, one in New York, and two in Boston, held fundraising galas which reveal, effectively, the current, debilitated state of American Catholicism, and mark yet another milestone in its spiritual and moral decline. In … Continue reading
Clinton Staffers Rip Catholic Teaching and Catholics
Wikileaks has revealed some embarrassing anti-Catholic remarks from Hilary Clinton’s staffers. To quote Mike Church (from a Facebook post): Slick Hillary’s good squad of J. Halpin and Jennifer Palmieri, with an assist from the ubiquitous electronic voyeur John Podesta, had … Continue reading
Protest Emily Rooney’s Slander of Padre Pio
If you have not read yesterday’s release by the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, please do so and consider this action item: Please contact WGBH and let them know how outraged you were by Emily Rooney’s contemptuous and unjust slander of … Continue reading
Catholic Action League Rebukes Emily Rooney for Defaming Saint Padre Pio
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized public television host Emily Rooney for claiming that Padre Pio—Catholicism’s most popular modern saint—was “a charlatan.” Rooney, a former network television producer, moderates a weekly, half-hour discussion program, Beat the Press, where she and four panelists, … Continue reading
Carl Anderson to Pro-Abortion Catholic Pols: Resign from Office! (BUT Stay in The Knights of Columbus)
In an article in The Hill, Carl Anderson, the leader of America’s largest Catholic organization, the Knights of Columbus, has called upon Catholic elected officials who support legal abortion—despite their personal views—to resign from public office. Anderson urged them to embrace … Continue reading
Jean-Paul Sartre: ‘Bathroom Bill’ Philosopher Extraordinaire
Anyone who has studied a smattering of modern philosophy in college has probably heard the misanthropic utterance of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) from No Exit, “Hell is other people” (L’enfer, c’est les autres). As with Friedrich Nietzsche’s “God is dead,” this … Continue reading
