by William Kilpatrick | Dec 14, 2021
Since 2017, approximately 800,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by advancing Islamic jihadists. Not to worry, though. Mozambique is a long way away, and besides they have a different culture. They don’t have a 200-year-old tradition of...
by William Kilpatrick | Dec 7, 2021
Five years ago when this article first appeared, it was still possible to believe that Pope Francis intended the foot kissing as a gesture of humility rather than as a gesture of submission. But in light of all that he has said and done since then, it now seems likely...
by William Kilpatrick | Sep 14, 2021
We were able to put an end to Bin Laden, but the ideology that inspired him lived on in Al-Qaeda and also in dozens of other Islamic terror groups spread out all over the world. The media often describes 9/11 as the day that changed America. In one sense that’s true....
by William Kilpatrick | Feb 8, 2021
Despite his penchant for theological innovation, Pope Francis seems to hold some fairly traditional beliefs about the devil. Here’s an example from Gaudete et Exsultate: It is precisely the conviction that this malign power is present in our midst that enables us to...
by William Kilpatrick | Feb 2, 2021
“Horrendous violence has engulfed much of the Islamic world, from Central Asia through the Middle East to Africa.” Hmm. Sounds like the ravings of a deluded “Islamophobe.”—the kind of extremist rhetoric one might expect from Robert Spencer, Raymond Ibrahim, or...
