The Slow Boat to China Accelerates: Catholics Should Take Notice
In early November, Archbishop Jose Gomez, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, congratulated Joe Biden as “the second United States president to profess the Catholic faith.” The implication seemed to be that Catholics should be...
Raymond Ibrahim reviews “What Catholics Need to Know about Islam”
By Raymond Ibrahim Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Of the various strands of Christianity, historically, Catholicism was the chief enemy of Islam. It was the popes who called for the crusades; and it was Catholics who...
Should Election Results be Resisted?
Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego recently said that Catholics should be “proud collaborators” with the Biden administration. On the other hand, Archbishop Vigano, the former Papal Nuncio to the U.S., frames the current conflict between Trump and Biden as part of an...
Telling the Whole Truth about Islam: Interview with Professor William Kilpatrick
An interview by Matt Gaspers for Catholic Family News Incomplete Information: A Case in Point At the beginning of his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti (FT), the title of which is based on words of St. Francis of Assisi (“brothers all”),[1] Pope Francis shares, “This...
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...
America’s Last Chance?
On election day, you will have to make a choice between two political parties and two presidential candidates. Several days later you will in all probability have to make another choice. In the case of a closely contested election, whose side will you take? No...
William Kilpatrick Makes the Catholic Case for Counter-Jihad
Oct 12, 2020 7:00 am By Andrew Harrod The Catholic Church is “like a sleeping giant—a powerful force for good that is asleep to the dangers posed by Islam’s stealth advance,” writes leading Catholic commentator William Kilpatrick in his new book, What Catholics Need...
What Catholics Need to Know About Islam: An Interview with William Kilpatrick
By Robert Spencer William Kilpatrick, who taught for many years at Boston College and is the author of several books about cultural and religious issues, has an important new book out, What Catholics Need to Know About Islam. He was kind enough to answer a few...
Another 9/11 is Unlikely — and Why You Shouldn’t Relax
The fact that there has been no 9/11-type attack in the U.S. for 19 years proves… what? That Islamic terrorist groups are not capable of mounting another such attack? That America’s security network is on much higher alert than in the innocent days before...
Leftists, Islamists, and America’s Weakened Resolve
Right now, the greater threat appears to come from the left, but don’t discount Islam’s 1400-year record of cultural and geographical conquest. Until three months ago, an attempted leftist takeover of American cities seemed a remote possibility. It seemed even less...