Not long before he was to die on 9 July 1961, at sixty years of age, Whittaker Chambers unknowingly wrote what was to be his final letter to his friend William F. Buckley. Dated 9 April 1961, this letter of … Continue reading
Category: Politics and Society
Planned Parenthood’s Ghoulish Morgue Humor on Parade
After a hiatus forced by the lawfare inflicted upon him by Planned Parenthood’s surrogates, David Daleiden is back at it. See coverage of this story in The Washington Times, National Review, and Breitbart. NOTE: The video keeps getting pulled off of … Continue reading
The Knights of Columbus: Compromise Weakens the Witness
I was given the last two issues of the Knights of Columbus magazine, Columbia, by a friend of mine. And it is an inspiring publication in many ways. The editor, Alton J. Pelowski, does a commendable job in making the … Continue reading
Even Obama’s DOJ Reprimanded the SPLC!
Dale Wilcox, writing for Breitbart News: Last week, my organization, an immigration-control advocate, publicly released a 2016 disciplinary opinion from the Obama-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially reprimanding a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attorney for unprofessional and frivolous … Continue reading
Nostalgia, Revival, and Restoration
Nostalgia is one of the most powerful emotions in the human psyche, not least because change — so often for the worse — is one of the most powerful realities we all face. Some of this change, be it political, … Continue reading
Humility and Sanity: Glimpses of Chesterton and Waugh
In his 1908 book, entitled Orthodoxy — published fourteen years before he was received into the Catholic Church in the summer of 1922 — G.K. Chesterton speaks politely and acutely about the all-too-pervasive lunacy (and the somewhat diminished sanity) of … Continue reading
Catholics Should Care about Politics and Society
There are two books that I am aware share the high distinction of being advertised by Saint Therese of Lisieux. They are Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year, which has been cited numerous times on this site by different authors, and Father Charles Arminjon’s … Continue reading
Interview with Marco Tosatti on the Syrian Crisis
Marco Tosatti is an Italian journalist and author who, next to writing for the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, and for the Italian website, La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, has his own website on which he publishes important articles about the Catholic … Continue reading
Syria, Trump, and the War Party
Some uncommonly common sense from Patrick J. Buchanan: By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to fight. … Continue reading
Getting Rid of Rotten Fruit
Question: What do Death Comes for the Archbishop, Ode to Joy and The Night Watch have in common? Answer: 1) They are all works of art. 2) They can all be identified by a person of culture who will also … Continue reading
OUTVETS Admitted to St. Patrick’s Day Parade after Threats of Violence
Mass Resistance and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts have received multiple reports from within the Allied War Veterans Council—organizers of Boston’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade—that the homosexual group OUTVETS was admitted to the 2017 parade only after numerous threats of … Continue reading
The Hate Groups of the Arrogant Left
Michael Voris is starting his own list of “hate groups.” They comprise a list of celebrated organizations that the leftist media routinely quotes as if they are unbiased experts on hatred. In the lead in to announcing Church Militant’s new hate … Continue reading