Do Catholics Have Legitimate Fears about Immigration?
In a number of talks and statements over the years, Pope Francis has scolded Europeans for their fear of immigrants. He came back to that theme early in March following electoral gains by “anti-immigrant” parties in Italy. According to a Reuters report, “Pope Francis...
Will the Church Put Islam on Life Support?
Suppose the Muslim world were to lose faith in Islam. Suppose that Muslims ignored the Koran, stopped going to mosque and dismissed Muhammad as a blood thirsty warlord and slave trader. How would the Catholic Church respond? Would Church leaders greet the news...
How a 2020 Democrat Victory could Pave the way for Radical Islam’s U.S. Takeover
I’ve written elsewhere about the Islamization of Europe that is currently underway, and also about the potential Islamization of America. If the latter sounds implausible — and I’m sure a great many people view it that way — consider what might happen if a certain...
Progressive Catholics and the Black Wave
'Black Wave' should serve as a wake-up call to all those blue skies Catholics who worry more about the threat of 'Islamophobia' than the reality of Christian genocide. The other night, I caught an interview on PBS between Fareed Zakaria and Kim Ghattas, the author of...
The Tyranny of Fashion
Our “woke” society is sleepwalking its way to an Orwellian future. Fashions come and go, but sometimes they can stick around long enough to do considerable damage. Smoking was fashionable for a great many decades and was glamorized in films for more than half a...
The Alarmists Were Right
Many in the West remain complacent about Islam’s rising tide because they rely on the assurances of people who have been consistently wrong about Islam and immigration. Meanwhile, they are being denied access to the opinions of the people who have been reliably...
The New Know-Nothings
“In order to protect Americans, the United States must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes toward it and its founding principles.” ∼ Executive order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United...
A Lesson in Realism for Iran
According to many pundits and prognosticators, the targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was going to precipitate World War III. And if not that, it would certainly land us in a quagmire like the ones that followed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq....
Hijacking Jesus
1,400 years ago, Muhammad hijacked Jesus from the gospels, demoted him to prophet, and placed him in the Koran. Christianity was Islam’s main competition at the time, and Muhammad seems to have reasoned that it was better to co-opt Jesus than to denounce him. Jump...
Islam, Realism, and the Church
In comments last year, Marcello Pera [1], a prominent Italian intellectual and non-believer, criticized Pope Francis for “openly going against tradition, doctrine, and introducing inexplicable innovations, behaviors and gestures.” A philosopher of science, former...
