Fool Me Once
“Pope appoints head of Amalgamated Coal Mines to lead Vatican Commission on Climate Change.” It’s a headline you’re unlikely to ever see. The climate may change, but Pope Francis’s opposition to fossil fuel is set in, well, anthracite. But suppose for a moment...
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,...
Jihad and the Complexities of Immigration
It’s time for Catholics to move beyond the level of “If you close the door on immigrants, you’re closing the door on Jesus,” and think more rigorously about the subject. In a recent CWR essay on the massacre of 10 people in Boulder, Colorado by a Muslim, I made the...
Boulder but no Wiser
If the media remains true to form, it will drop the Boulder story within a very short time. In the wake of the March 23rd killing of ten people at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, two Catholic bishops quickly responded with words of solace. They...
Militant Secularism, Militant Islam, and Crumbling Catholicism
The watered-down religion of human fraternity which some Catholics hope to bring about will be no match for either militant secularism or militant Islam. Jesus assured us that the gates of hell will not prevail against his Church. But we’re not told how much damage...
Questions on Islam
Dr. Kilpatrick was recently interviewed by Maureen Mullarkey for The Federalist. Here is a brief excerpt from that interview. Maureen Mullarkey: You consistently warn against what we might call the fallacy of root cause. Much mainstream commentary explains the origin...
Biden re-defines “Devout Catholic:” Will the Bishops Act?
The following piece was originally published a few days after the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Since then, it's become crystal clear that his far-left policies constitute an all-out attack on Catholic moral principles. Yet Biden still presents himself as a...
The ‘Jesus’ revered by Muslims is not the same Jesus worshipped by Christians as God
The Vatican is currently hosting a series of webinars on "Mary as a model for faith and life for Christianity and Islam." This is part of a push by the Vatican to reconcile with Islam by emphasizing the biblical figures that the two faiths share in common, such as...
Witch Hunts in Salem and in Washington
The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem Witch Trials is often used by educators to teach students about the dangers that arise when true believers try to impose their orthodoxies on the rest of us. Indeed, Miller wrote the play during the era of the...
Cancelling Orwell?
There’s an almost dream-like quality to the events of the last 12 months. Depending on their political/cultural views, the dream will be experienced by some as pleasant, by others as disturbing, and by still others as nightmarish. For those in the latter...
