Let Nothing You Dismay
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...
Pius XII, Francis, and the Media
John Cornwell’s 1999 smear of Pius XII, Hitler’s Pope, became a best-seller, lauded by reviewers and excerpted in major magazines. Cornwell portrayed Pope Pius as an anti-Semite, a supporter of Hitler, and an enabler of the Holocaust. None of this is true, of course....
Déjà Vu in Pensacola
Do you get the feeling that you’ve seen this movie before? On Friday, December 6, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a member of the Saudi military, killed three and wounded seven others at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. The New York Times immediately reported that his...
Tumult in the Church: Is the Confusion Intentional?
A steady stream of innovations and obfuscations serve two purposes for the modernists in the Vatican. Are you confused? If you follow Catholic news media, you can’t help but notice the explosion of bewildering innovations being enacted or proposed for the Church on an...
Europe Is Falling to Islam. Will America?
“Within five years,” said former French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, “the situation could become irreversible.” He was referring to the rising tide of violence resulting from Muslim immigration. His comment was from an interview that took place almost two...
Contending for the Public Square
Secularists like to advise Christians that, for the sake of social harmony, they ought to keep their religion to themselves. Religion, they argue, is a private affair between an individual and his designated deity, and ought not to be dragged into the public square....
Hitler and the Grand Mufti
One of the great advantages we have over our ancestors is hindsight. With a clearer picture of the past, we can avoid making the same mistakes they made. But what if we’re not allowed to use our hindsight? What if we’re forced to pretend that what happened in the past...
A Terrorist’s Suicide and the Matter of Hell
Where does the recently deceased Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi currently reside? The death of terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raises some important questions about Islamic beliefs, as well as about the motivations of terrorists. Terrorist leaders claim that their actions...
Bill Barr’s Speech and the Problem with Generic Religion
It’s a good bet that when the Founders spoke of God and religion, they were not thinking of Allah and Islam. On October 11, Attorney General William Barr delivered a powerful speech on religious freedom at the University of Notre Dame. The Attorney General detailed...
How Will Islam respond to the Church’s Drift toward Pantheism?
As I said in a recent column, Pope Francis doesn’t understand Islam. More proof of that came on October 4th when the pope participated in what has been described as a “highly symbolic tree-planting ceremony.” Well, you could call it that, but most tree-planting...
