Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries: Uncovering Mysterious Sites, Symbols, and SocietiesBy Stephen Klimczuk and Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie (Sterling Books, 272 pages, $19.95) Dan Brown’s latest fairy tale (def., a fictional story that may feature folkloric characters) audaciously claims, “That the…
Barack Obama won the Catholic vote 54%-45% in the 2008 general election. George W. Bush won that vote, 52%-47%, in 2004 over John Kerry, a Roman Catholic. Many political pundits now view Catholics — heavily blue collar, ethnic, and mostly…
Almost all of the liberal and conservative commentators on the Great Recession and Financial Collapse/Bailout of 2008 have neglected the cultural and moral reasons for this economic mess. Unless those causes are addressed, all the finger pointing and all the…