The West’s Last Chance?

The West’s Last Chance?

Has it already passed? Those who make a business of projecting trends often neglect the acceleration factor.  The march of history may be usefully described as “slowly” followed by “suddenly.” Yet we are rarely prepared for those times when history seems to...
Will Islam Convert the West?

Will Islam Convert the West?

The trans craze suggests that we are highly vulnerable. Kim Ghattas’s book, Black Wave, describes the revolutionary fervor which swept across much of the Muslim world in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The movement was marked by the sudden reappearance of...
Have Catholic Progressives Gone Too Far?

Have Catholic Progressives Gone Too Far?

Pro-LGBT bishops lose big in recent election. The bad news is that the lunatic fringe of the Catholic Church is no longer on the fringes.  Each new day brings more evidence that the lunatics are in charge. Some examples? A drag queen activist lectures...
Priest Advocates Porn for Overstressed Clergy

Priest Advocates Porn for Overstressed Clergy

Priests like Fr. Backhaus are no longer rare exceptions in the Church. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse in the Catholic Church, Father Hermann Backhaus, a priest of the Diocese of Münster, Germany, proves you wrong. In a recent interview, Backhaus...
A Non-Catholic Pope?

A Non-Catholic Pope?

Archbishop Vigano’s critique of Francis “A non-Catholic Pope”?  It sounds like a contradiction in terms.  But those are the words used to describe Pope Francis by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.  In...