This lecture was given on November 4, 2014 in Vienna at an event organized by Una Voce Austria. It has been translated from the original German. The Church is a stumbling block. This has always […]
There is a tale, whose threads are too long to unravel here, of the meanderings of an idea through history—the idea that, as Nicolas Gómez-Davila parsed it, man is “a god imprisoned in the dull […]
“Gridlock” along the Potomac—the difficulties the Congress has in getting things done, the difficulties the Congress and the White House have in cooperating to get things done, or both—is regularly deplored by pols, pundits, and […]
“War is hell.” (William Tecumseh Sherman) “NO TO WAR! War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity.” (St. John Paul II, January 13, 2003) Though war is one of the greatest […]
In his preface to A Man for All Seasons, playwright Robert Bolt describes protagonist Thomas More as a man with an adamantine sense of his own self. He knew where he began and left off… […]
The problem posed by the Baltimore riots is not racial but endemic, for it is the problem of a society that is too often aggrieved. The background for this culture of grievance is egalitarianism, the […]
The face of the Catholic Church is often a masculine one, whether it be the pope, bishops, or local priests, and in recent decades this has been viewed by many as a bad thing. The […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has now heard oral arguments on a case to determine whether it will strike down state laws that grant marriage licenses to opposite-sex couples but not same-sex couples. The main issue […]
“And whereas such is the nature of man, that, without external helps, he cannot easily be raised to the meditation of divine things; therefore has holy Mother Church … employed ceremonies, such as mystic benedictions, […]
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