From Patrick J. Buchanan: Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools. They … Continue reading
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
President Trump seems to have a mix of America Firsters and war hawks among his advisers. His expressed desire for better relations with Russia and his pre-election remarks concerning a non-interventionist policy in Syria bespeak an anti-war-hawk, non-interventionist policy. On … Continue reading
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is hailing the decision of President Donald Trump to appoint Judge Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, an Associate Justice of the United States … Continue reading
(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
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
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
Time is a most important gift given to us by Our Lord. The use of time, in the way that Our Lord intended, will lead to eternal happiness with Him in Heaven. This, He has promised to us on numerous … Continue reading
From Pat Buchanan: “As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.” Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced. … Continue reading
Christmas, New Year’s, and Epiphany always, I think, make us meditative over our past, present, and future. We are tempted to look at the events and challenges of our lives in isolation — not merely from those of others, but … Continue reading
In real time these lines are being written three weeks before Donald Trump is due to be sworn in as President of the United States. I’m praying that he survives until his inauguration and then afterward. Survives? Of all I’ve … Continue reading
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
Dear Mr. President: When this is published in our little periodical, the Mancipia, you will be about to be sworn in as President of the United States. This will not be a very long letter, certainly not as long as … Continue reading
Following the Brexit vote in the U.K. in June and Donald Trump’s unexpected election victory mainstream media have been filled with reports about a wave of populism that supposedly threatens to wash right across the formerly Christian and now liberal … Continue reading
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
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