David Warren on Canadian craziness: if you’re a member of a protected class, you may still say anything; but if you are not, God help you. One is left speechless by some government legislation. That would be its intention, for it is designed to prevent, or gravely discourage, persons with views other than the Zeitgeist’s […]
Eduardo Echeverria on marriage: it requires sexual difference – in the sexual act – as a foundational prerequisite, indeed, as intrinsic to a one flesh-union of man and woman. St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and even Pope Francis – every one of these popes – affirms the moral and sacramental significance of the two-in-one-flesh […]
Robert Royal notes that the progressive future can’t be great since it doesn’t concern itself with the future of children and societies fertile enough to reproduce themselves. Last week, when the leader of the free world was (depending on which sources you paid attention to) either destroying America’s carefully constructed system of international alliances or […]
The dominant contemporary “feeling” is that we live in a parsimonious world. Nature is running out of gas. Natural resources are scandalously being “used up,” never to be replaced. Besides, too many people exist on the planet, consuming everything in sight. Species of birds and bugs die out. “Consumerism” knows no bounds to desires. The […]
Time magazine’s cover for the April 3 issue posed the provocative question, “Is Truth Dead?” It followed up with the corollary article, “Can Trump Handle the Truth,” which itemized all the untruths emerging from Trump’s allegations and tweets, and floating around in his administration. By contrast, Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, after the […]
I think I’ve seen this movie before. The plot goes something like this: a man drives a car into a crowd of people, gets out of his vehicle, shouts an Arabic phrase, begins to stab bystanders, and is shot by police. You probably know the rest of the story. Ordinary people immediately understand that it’s […]
The village of Chelm, near Poland’s border with Ukraine, is seen in Jewish folklore as the place where an angel, assigned by God to carry a sack filled with foolish souls for distribution across the globe, suddenly stumbles, dumping them all onto the village. One of them, it turns out, finds employment sitting at the […]
We have ample occasion these days to be reminded that Christian martyrs can be a catalyst for a new rebirth. You know: “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.” There is undeniable historical truth to that, but unfortunately there is another way, pace Tertullian, to look at it: the blood of […]