Marxism/Communism

It’s Not Enough to Listen to the Young

By William Kilpatrick, April 9, 2019 In his new exhortation on youth, Christus Vivit (Christ is Alive), Pope Francis returns again and again to the theme that the Church must listen to youth. Although Christus Vivit contains much that is inspiring and even moving, the good parts are often... read more

Pope Francis’s Socialist Agenda

By William Kilpatrick, March 11, 2019 Watching Bernie Sanders’s speech announcing his candidacy for president, it struck me that—except for the part about a woman’s right to choose—Pope Francis would have found himself in agreement with just about every item on the aging socialist... read more

The border wars plot to destabilize and transform America

By Cliff Kincaid, February 14, 2019 The Center for a Secure Free Society held a news conference the other day about the roles of Russia, China, Venezuela, and other countries in flooding the U.S. with illegal aliens. Mario Duarte, Secretary of Strategic Intelligence for the Republic of... read more

After 25 years, what JP2’s Letter to Families can teach today’s world

by Mary Rezac Denver, Colo., Jan 30, 2019 / 04:05 am (CNA).- Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla, a man from a small town in Poland who lost all of his immediate family - mom, older brother, an infant sister, and father - by the time he was 20 years old. Shortly thereafter, he vowed a life... read more

Squandering Moral Capital

By George Weigel, January 23, 2019 The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult subject once engaged some of Catholicism’s finest minds, including Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez, and it was passionately debated during... read more

Organizer of Antifa attacks on Tucker Carlson identified, linked to congressional Dems

By  Calvin Freiburgers WASHINGTON, D.C., December 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – An organizer behind the Antifa group that orchestrated mobs threatening the families of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, and Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been identified, as has his history of working with Democrat members of... read more

On Being Catholic Modern

By James Matthew Wilson, December 22, 2018 One of the distinctly modern blessings for the young Catholic intellectual is having one’s moral imagination formed by what Russell Hittinger once called the papal “paper war.” From the 1864 Syllabus of Errors [1] onward, our popes have assumed... read more

This Year’s Vatican-China Agreement Causes Widespread Consternation

Cardinal Joseph Zen says Pope Francis is being “deceived by his collaborators” and a “miracle” is needed, while Cardinal Pietro Parolin says an “act of faith” is required to make the deal work. Edward Pentin Blog, December 21. 2018 VATICAN CITY — Among several Vatican stories... read more

100 Years of Solzhenitsyn: Lessons on the October Revolution for our time

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born exactly 100 years ago, on December 11, 1918, one year after the October Revolution, in a nation in civil war. In the end of the 20th century, and first decades of the new one, the same mistake that paved the way in the mighty Russian Empire in the end of... read more

Cardinal Zen: The Vatican is badly mishandling China situation

by Catholic News Agency, 26 Oct 2018 The former bishop of Hong Kong said the Pope does not understand the communist regime The recent agreement between the Vatican and China is a step towards the “annihilation” of the Catholic Church in China, Cardinal Joseph Zen, former bishop of Hong... read more

Is Pope Francis Following St. Romero’s Strategy of Silence?

COMMENTARY: Like the new Latin-American saint, the Holy Father has chosen not to respond directly to harsh criticism. Father Raymond J. de Souza, Oct. 19, 2018 Is Pope Francis taking a page from the St. Óscar Romero book — diary, to be specific — in how he handles the accusations made... read more

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