On 4 June 1960, one month before I was to enter the United States Military Academy as a seventeen-year-old New Cadet, an article was published that was later to illuminate much reality for me as a military officer—especially about the … Continue reading
Category: Politics and Society
‘Religious Liberty’ and Conflicting Rights Claims
Rereading the excellent post on Rorate Caeli, “Religious Liberty or Liberty for Christians?,” led me to some broader considerations on the subject of religious liberty. Roberto de Mattei, the author of the piece, expresses what is no doubt a controversial, … Continue reading
Tears of the Hitman-in-Chief
Nat Hentoff penned a hard-hitting op-ed piece on the patent hypocrisy of President Obama’s tears for the Sandy Hook victims. Pro-lifers will see the point right away, since the same man who shed those tears is the most viciously pro-abortion … Continue reading
Honor in Foreign Policy
After some recent historical writing on Vietnam and its strategic milieu during the years 1962-1965, I became, perhaps for the first time, much more deeply aware of the presence or absence of Honor in the conduct of modern Foreign Policy. … Continue reading
A Clarion Call for the Implementation of Guilds
(RebuildingChristendom.com) If you are a craftsman/tradesman who makes/sells a product, offers a service, or can train people to do these things, consider forming a guild. There are books available on this topic; please read them. IHS Press currently offers a … Continue reading
What Have We to Offer?
A month ago this website posted some lines by me in which I lamented that the state of formerly Christian society was fallen so low that probably no more than a half-dozen Americans cared that the Christian interest would not … Continue reading
Liberty, the God That Failed
Review of Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama (Angelico Press, 2012) In his first encyclical, Inscrutabili (On the Evils Affecting Modern Society), April 21, 1878, Pope … Continue reading
Sacrum Imperium
Christmas brings all sorts of joy, for all sorts of reasons. Readers of Dom Prosper Gueranger’s Liturgical Year will be reminded in his first volume for the season of three great historical events that took place on Christmas Day — … Continue reading
A Slaughter of Innocents in Advent
As we prepare for Christmas, we still have on our minds the heinous slaughter of kindergarteners last Friday in Connecticut. This morning, at our IHM Chapel, Father Phillipson offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the victims. Some pious … Continue reading
Notre Dame U’s Apostasy Continues
From the ND Newswire: After a five-month review process, University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has accepted recommendations from the Office of Student Affairs to expand and enhance the support of and services for students who … Continue reading
Report from the Twilight Zone
The National Catholic Reporter has endorsed Women’s Ordination. In other news, water is wet.
The Sin of Sodom Was…
…something other than sodomy, according to the latest is homoerotic scriptural exegesis. In fact, it was a failure to show hospitality. Not, so, says Monsignor Pope. Late last week on the blog the I made mention of the sins that … Continue reading
Vote Fraud vs. Reality
From the corner where I sit, I see much of the conservative reaction to last month’s election as more dismaying than the election itself. After all, whichever of the two principal candidates won, the country was not going to be … Continue reading
Thomas Fleming on Thanksgiving
My notice of it is a week late, but the piece is worth reading nonetheless. Dr. Thomas Fleming, of Chronicles, has a column in the UK Mail Online about the secular American high holy day of Thanksgiving. It’s a wonderful … Continue reading
Amazing Lucidity on the Secession Issue
We all know that only hateful WASPS are for secession, because that’s what the evil, bigoted Southrons did beginning with South Carolina in 1860, and they were all hateful WASPS. Right? This is the gist of the received history of … Continue reading