No Trespassing in the Vineyard
Too often the Church’s highest authorities seemingly endorse violations of both political and spiritual boundaries.
All You Need Is Love?
This past half-century or so has seen the word love dragged through the mud. Once a queen; now a harlot.
Are Conservatives Embracing a New Kind of Welfare?
Pro-family legislation is not “a new kind of welfare” nor is it a rejection of small government. It is an attempt to return power back to the people.
Imagine No Religion
The biggest threat facing America today isn’t China, Russia, radical sexual or racial ideologies, globalism or widening economic disparities. The gravest threat is the dramatic decline in citizens’ religious affiliation and belief.
The Catholic Case for Guns (Guest: Rick Barrett)
Gun control is a perennially controversial topic in America, and many—if not most—Catholic bishops favor stricter gun control laws. But what is the Catholic position when it comes to guns?
Defenders of Faith and Family
Like today’s leftists, the Ottoman Turks wanted to turn Christian children against their parents; but one man turned the tables on them.
The West Doesn’t Want the Ukraine War to End
It’s been almost one year since Russia invaded Ukraine and there seems to be no end in sight to the conflict. Is this what the U.S. and other Western countries actually want?
Novak Djokovic’s Win Is a Win for the Vaccine-Free
A year after being deported from Australia for not getting the Covid vaccine, Novak Djokovic returns to win the Australian Open and score a victory for the vaccine-free.
The Anti-Human Humanitarians of Davos
The World Economic Forum, with its impressive collection of CEOs ranging from Pfizer to Facebook to Black Rock, as well as senior representatives of all major heads of state, has become an anti-human, globalist shadow government.
The Great Pat Buchanan Signs Off
Pat Buchanan was Trump before Trump, and he was far better than Trump as well.
Will The Right’s Next Pro-Life President Please Stand Up?
The Right’s former pro-life hero and the “greatest pro-life president we’ve ever had” thinks the “abortion issue” was an inconvenient problem that cost us the election…and especially inconvenient were those who dared to insist on no exceptions.
A Hill On Which To Die
Defending marriage these days would seem to be a hill on which not so many are prepared to die. But why should that be the case? After all, there really isn’t anything more deserving of defense than the oldest institution in the world.
The Decline of the Catholic Vote
The midterm election is now well behind us, and the statisticians have calibrated the Catholic vote. Perhaps the busy reader would like an abridged summary: There is no Catholic vote. Why?
When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be President
We’re to the point in the culture wars where “the best defense is a good offense,” and if you want to protect your family from these pernicious influences, you’ve got to push back hard. This means running for (local) office.
The Political Philosophy of Joseph Ratzinger
Joseph Ratzinger was aware of the central event of modernity, namely the transferal of basic Christian categories from the transcendent order to the political order of this world.
Silencing the Prigs
Perhaps it might not be such a bad idea for the prigs of the planet to spare us their opinions, especially as they’re really not all that impressive.
What Tucker Carlson Doesn’t Get About “Marriage” that the Left Does
It doesn’t take a genius to see how the “right to privacy” made up and established in Griswold (which legalized birth control for married couples) gave us all of our current social ills, including “gay marriage.”
Musk vs. Fauci
Maybe you had the seeming transhumanist Big Tech Czar going after Emperor Fauci on your 2022 bingo card, but I sure didn’t.
Catholics Must Make Alliances with the Elites
Twitter can force even the most powerful people on earth to listen. The Democrats learned this lesson all too well, which is why they were so invested in quashing news stories that might harm Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020.
From Neocon to Antiwar
The neocon narrative is crumbling, as more and more conservatives have rejected its empire-building foreign interventionism. What caused the growing rejection of neocon foreign policy, and why should Catholics also oppose the neocon narrative?