Endless Wars
We hear a lot these days about “endless wars.” A short list of protracted wars since World War II might include the Vietnam War, the Israeli-Arab wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Lebanese civil war, the Soviet-Afghan war, the Iran-Iraq war, and the...
Who’s Winning the Ideological War?
Taking a Wider View of the Middle East Crisis Israel seems to be winning the wars against its enemies—Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. At the same time, it may be losing the propaganda wars. At least, that’s my impression from following the news and from talking with...
Keep Your Eye on the Ideology
Taking a Wider View of the Middle East Crisis Israel seems to be winning the wars against its enemies—Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. At the same time, it may be losing the propaganda wars. At least, that’s my impression from following the news and from talking with...
Falling Off the Demographic Cliff
Friends who visit Europe with large families in tow tell me they soon become “tourist attractions” themselves. Europeans are used to Muslims with large families. But Americans? People from a prosperous developed nation? How odd. Don’t they know that children get in...
Francis, Fatima, and Garabandal
Pope Francis says don’t worry about sin. Our Lady says otherwise. Catholics are confused and divided over Pope Francis. For years he has been introducing novel changes into the Church that seem to conflict not only with traditional practices but also with established...
To Bomb or Not to Bomb: That Is the Question
In recent weeks I’ve come across several articles and podcasts on Catholic sites which contend that the U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with Iran. As it turns out, Washington didn’t take the advice. On June 21 the United States launched a massive B-2 bomber...
Will the Vatican stand up to protect and preserve Islam?
I wrote this piece five years ago, but due to current events in Iran, the questions it raises are more pertinent than ever. Suppose the Muslim world were to lose faith in Islam. Suppose that Muslims ignored the Koran, stopped going to mosque and dismissed Muhammad as...
9/11: The Wake-Up Call That Put Us to Sleep, Part 2 of 2- The Hijacking of the American Mind
In Part I, I described how Islamic jihadists hijacked four jetliners by means of violent jihad, and how stealth jihadists later managed to hijack American universities. But the really big hijack operation has been the hijacking of 9/11 itself. More precisely, in the...
9/11: The Wake-up Call That Put Us to Sleep, Part I, Stealth Jihad
If you were young at the time of the 9/11 attack, you might not remember the sense of panic that swept the country immediately afterward. If terrorists could simultaneously hijack four airliners, reduce two of the largest buildings in the world to rubble, and inflict...
How the Catholic Church Became a Defender of Islam
In the late 1930s Catholic historian Hillaire Belloc wrote: " It [Islam] is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past…" It seemed an...
