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The years-long showdown between Texas and the Federal Government over the Texas-Mexico border took a dramatic—and potentially dangerous—turn this week. The Supreme Court (with Amy Coney Barrett as the deciding vote) ruled that Texas could not prevent the Federal Government from taking down the barbed wire fence that Texas installed along part of the border….
As 2024 dawns, Rome and Washington promise an abundance of material at the intersection of faith and politics. Feeling overwhelmed at this prospect, the interested Catholic observer might look instead to Central America, where El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is seeking reelection early next month. It will be less a gauge of the Salvadoran electorate…
Given the continual revelations of Cardinal Fernández’ psychosexual pathology and Pope Francis’ hat tip to an empty Hell, I thought it might be good to consider the truth of Satan and the infernal dwelling place where wicked men go. Through the prophet Jeremiah, God spoke these words: “Of old time thou hast broken my yoke,…
Above: the capitol building of the United States of America in Washington, DC. Despite relentless pressure on Traditional Catholic communities by the Commies in Washington, the Traditional Latin Mass was celebrated at the Capitol just in time for Trump’s third run at the Presidency. On Tuesday, Father Z posted a message he received from someone…
With the eruption of student protests calling for genocide, along with the Ivy League college presidents who defend this idiocy, many Americans are understandably concerned about the state of higher education. Even though the cost of tuition climbs substantially each year, what these institutions produce seems to deteriorate in quality. Most parents want their children…
A few weeks ago, I saw in an article in The New York Times the phrase “Pope Francis’s agenda for the Church.” The author approved of that agenda and was no doubt oblivious to the fact that, unless we are talking about governance, reform of abuses, and missionary work, an agenda for the Church is…
Above: the restoration of Rome and the Papal Legations by Cardinal Consalvi to Pope Pius VII after the defeat of Napoleon. Engraving by A. Banzo after F. Manno It is said that once, to Napoleon Bonaparte († 1821), who threatened to destroy the Papacy and the Church, a man replied, “Your Majesty, you would be…
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, is at it again. He’s ruffling all the right feathers, at the right time, and in the right place. From January 15 to 19, 2024, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted its 54th annual meeting. On day three, January 17, 2024, he delivered his historic speech. But before we…
In my book Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education, there is a chapter titled “A Pope Away from a Perfect Life for the Jesuits.” The chapter documents in depressing detail the ways in which the Jesuits began to wage war with the pope following Vatican II. It describes how the 28 Jesuit campuses…
In the past few weeks we have received a great blessing: the demonstration that for a large section of the Catholic Church around the world Pope Francis has gone too far. All the indications until now were that there was no limit to the capacity of the faithful to accept this Pope’s paltering with Catholic…
