Losing Their Religion
From time to time, readers of my articles will ask: “What do you want to do—go to war with 1.7 billion Muslims?” The question implies that any criticism of Islam will force the members of this “peaceful religion” to respond with massive violence. More or less the same...
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...
Is Francis the Pope? Who am I to Judge?
In a recent Crisis piece, Dom Pius Mary Noonan, O.S. B. takes issue with Catholics who say that Francis is not truly the pope. It’s a critical issue because Francis doesn’t seem to have much longer to live. If there is doubt about his own validity, it may cast doubt...
The Media’s Islam Protection Program
I see that Ousseynou Sy’s sentence for attempted murder has just been reduced to 19 years on appeal. Ousseynou Sy? Perhaps the name doesn’t ring a bell. He’s the bus driver who set his bus full of children on fire two years ago. It happened on a highway near Milan,...
The Church’s Islam Problem
After a series of terror attacks in France, including one that left three people dead at a Catholic Church in Nice, Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah said that the West must wake up to the threat of Islamism. “Islamism,” His Eminence said, “is a monstrous fanaticism which...
Covering-up for Islam
Everyone knows about the cover-up of the priestly abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, and the great damage it has caused. But did you know that the Church has been engaged in another, even bigger cover-up? This cover-up has received little attention, but in the long...
Common Sense and the Cult of Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism, which started off with the proposition that all differences must be respected, eventually developed into something like a sacrificial religious cult. Over the last two decades, it has claimed many victims. The prime example is the Pakistani rape...
Francis’s Disastrous Influence on World Affairs
I’ve written frequently about the great harm that Pope Francis has done to the Catholic Church as the result of his subtle and not-so-subtle attacks on Catholic teaching, Catholic tradition, Catholic morality, and Catholic liturgy. But it’s also important to realize...
Part 2: The Cover-Up: How the West Whitewashes Islam
A look at why no one tells the truth about Islamic beliefs -- but particularly the pope. In Part 1 of this article, I explained that after 9/11, American and European opinion makers engaged in a massive whitewashing of Islam. What was once the most feared religion in...
The Big Cover-Up, Part 1: Is “Jihad” an Interior Struggle?
A look at why no one tells the truth about Islamic beliefs — but particularly the pope. I hope the title of this article doesn’t sound like a conspiracy theory — but if it does, keep in mind that not every conspiracy is a theory. Many of them have been thoroughly...
