Should Catholics Keep Up With The Times?
Or is it time to slow down? Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, one of the Church’s leading prelates, has called for a revision of Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Why? Well, because “the Church has always moved with the times and has always...
The Popular Belief That Empties Churches
The devastating impact of the premise that people are essentially good. In a recent Front Page column, Dennis Prager criticizes the idea that people are basically good. The belief that humans are inherently good is both “foolish” and “dangerous,” writes Prager,...
‘Pope Francis’ – A Wolf in Shepherd’s Clothing?
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano sheds a disturbing light on the 'Deep Church'. “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...
Forgetting Jihad
The Boulder massacre took place less than a year ago. Why is it so difficult to remember? Note: This piece was written several days before the attack on a synagogue in Texas by an Islamic jihadist. The hostage situation, which resulted in the death of the Muslim...
The 15:17 to Paris
Clint Eastwood’s film is more relevant than ever. The 15:17 to Paris which depicts the true story of three Americans who foiled a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 was released in 2018. But in some ways, it is more relevant now than it was then. Of...
‘One Nation Under Allah’ Revisited
When religious liberty protections protect opponents of religious liberty. I just came across a news item from last June about a girl (the class president) in a Fairfax County high school who led the graduating class in a recital of the Pledge of Allegiance, but...
A Cautionary Fable
What can we learn from the tale of the Zods and the Wachovians? Myths and fables can sometimes help us to see current events more clearly. Since they involve fictional characters and places, we can look at the events described more objectively. Whatever...
The Light that Shines in the Darkness
How Christmas gives meaning to life. When Samuel Huntington wrote “The Clash of Civilizations,” he was referring to the clash between Western Civilization and Islam. But there is a clash within Western Civilization itself which may determine the outcome of the...
Sing We Now of Christmas
One of the perpetual complaints against Christianity is that it is a life-denying, puritanical system. In the Victorian era, poet Algernon Swinburne referred to Christ as the “pale Galilean” from whose breath “the world has grown grey.” In our own time, films such as...
Western Immigration Policy: Assimilation or Reverse Assimilation?
Since 2017, approximately 800,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by advancing Islamic jihadists. Not to worry, though. Mozambique is a long way away, and besides they have a different culture. They don’t have a 200-year-old tradition of...
