Rome was an empty and broken city in 1341. The popes had fled to France where the castles weren’t crumbling, and families weren’t holding grudges against them. Its population had dwindled to a mere 20,000 (the city had been built…
“Young people are the future” is a quip every Gen Zer has heard. Unfortunately, the “future” has lost its interest in the future. Young people are increasingly turning their backs on marriage and children, a choice that is hurting their…
“We are an Easter people, and alleluia is our song,” the great St. Augustine once wrote. Over 1,500 years later, Pope St. John Paul II echoed these words when speaking in Adelaide, Australia. “We do not pretend that life is…
The futuristic Allegiant Stadium — dubbed the “Death Star” because it resembles the Star Wars space station — is the perfect setting for an event that has now achieved almost supernatural status. The stadium, with its black façade, dark windows,…
Pew Research Center released a new report about religious “nones” that found that 28 percent of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated. Sixty-three percent described their religious beliefs as “nothing in particular,” while the rest identified as either atheist or agnostic….
Among my daily readings online, I include The American Spectator, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times. I recently came across an interesting piece in the Post regarding the new phone etiquette. I was fascinated to find that merely picking up the…
The gray mantle of evening had finally shrouded the light of a balmy midsummer’s day, and the good citizens of Doylestown, Pennsylvania were busy trimming their lamps and preparing their beds for the night when all of a sudden news…
Just in time for Christmas, a spate of Satanic idols is being erected in and around state capitols. The latest of these, a Saturnalian Baphomet creature seemingly woven of twigs and placed on the lawn outside the capitol building in…
In my last article, I described what I called ignorance to the third degree: ignorance that is proud of itself, that boasts of having discarded vast fields of human knowledge. Since any sane person will be a bit embarrassed when…
Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin shall live! Twentieth-century totalitarianism depended on man-gods. Lenin was worshipped as not only spiritually immortal, as Mayakovsky suggested in his poem, but as materially immortal, zombified and on display in his Red Square mausoleum. Stalin…