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Several years ago, at the March for Life in Washington, some boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky were being harassed by a native American protester and by a group of black activists, taunting them and refusing to let them be. One of the boys, having in vain confronted the protester, stood like stone, taking…
Above: Mr. J. D. Vance being sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on January 20, 2025 The Roman Pontiff has issued a letter to the Bishops of these United States, addressing the immigration controversy in the American Empire. He first affirms, quite rightly, the obligation of the spirit work of…
The great philosopher Plato addresses the US Congress: Honored leaders, esteemed thinkers, and guardians of the American Republic, I stand before you—not as a citizen of your time but as a voice from an age long past, where the seeds of civilization were sown and where the specter of its ruin was studied with due…
Yes, a captivity. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (hereafter, DEI) can properly be called a captivity. Americans were held hostage by this alien ideology born in the claustrophobic classrooms of the Marxist credo for decades. Its noose has finally loosened. So enveloping was this agitprop that the commanding heights of academe and conventional intelligentsia cast aside…
Trends are funny things. Often, they promote vapid novelties as “cool,” leading to flurries of popularity for ankle socks, ugly and immodest swimsuits, or particular meme rehashes. But sometimes trends are actually occupied with worthwhile things. The difference is that they tend to hide or rebrand the wholesome old things in a new light, hoping…
It’s no secret that the Catholic Church is bleeding members. According to Pew Research, those who have left Catholicism outnumber those who have joined the Catholic Church by nearly a four-to-one margin. As such statistics continue to worsen, the emphasis on evangelization grows. Yet, few can state what that ought to look like. So much…
Easter can fall at its latest on 25 April in the Gregorian Calendar codified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. In this 2025th year of our salvation Easter is quite late, occurring on 20 April. This is because the first full Moon after the Vernal Equinox will be at 20:22 of 12 April EDT which…
Many people will have heard of the French Resistance, the name given to the various underground organizations that fought against the Nazis during the German occupation of France in World War II. Few, however, will be aware of another “French Resistance,” a century and a half earlier, in which around 170,000 people died. This was…
Well, Trump’s tariff threats have been appeased after one heck of a news cycle that saw the Donald threaten to absorb Canada numerous times. When the hoopla first began, I believed Trump was joking and that he was merely trolling Justin Trudeau. Then, the rhetoric became more intense, and the narrative shifted from “Get your…
The same year that Copernicus published his book asserting that the sun and not the earth was the center of the solar system, a Belgian doctor named Andreas Vesalius published an illustrated anatomy textbook, On the Fabric of the Human Body, that would result in a paradigm shift in medicine as impactful as Copernicus’ was…
