Category: Foreign Affairs
Fatima: A Story Too Fascinating to Ignore — ...
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 25, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Movies | 0 |
Unexpected: A Purgatorio in Quatrains
Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Nov 3, 2019 | Catholic Church, Family, Featured, Literature, Liturgy, Poetry, Spirituality | 0 |
Sing a New Song to the Lord
Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jul 7, 2019 | America, Books, Catholic Church, Culture, Featured, History, Liturgy, Music | 64 |
Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe: Warning to the West or Obituary?
by Carl C. Curtis | Nov 24, 2017 | Books, Featured, Foreign Affairs, History | 0 |
Only in Eastern Europe, countries that know all too well the cost of invasions—first of Nazis then of Bolsheviks—has the refusal to admit the flood of aliens been strong enough to withstand the shaming of the Eurocentric Left
Read MoreGuilt By Association? The Religion of Peace Strikes Again!
by Carl C. Curtis | Apr 18, 2017 | America, Culture, Featured, Foreign Affairs | 0 |
The last time I checked, Christians worshipped the one true God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. . . . Seems that doctrine is getting lost in the flood of good will, which is, pardon the cliché, tragic.
Read MoreBalancing Compassion and Security in Mexican-American Relations
by Luanne Zurlo | Feb 4, 2017 | America, Featured, Foreign Affairs, History | 0 |
It should come as no surprise that immigration has become a defining political issue of our day, making the response to the ‘how many and who should we admit’ question more complicated than it may initially appear.
Read MoreAachen Cathedral a No-Go Zone: A Cautionary Tale About Terrorism
by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics | 4 |
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump was much criticized—no, castigated—for suggesting (certainly with his usual hyperbole) a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States. It’s an extreme measure, to be sure, but isn’t it about time we in the West realized these are extreme times?
Read MoreOrlando’s Lesson: No More Playing Games—It’s Time for War
by Carl C. Curtis | Jun 15, 2016 | 2016 Election, America, Featured, Foreign Affairs, History, Politics | 0 |
Obama’s press conferences in response to this year’s string of terrorist attacks—Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, and even the first press conference after Orlando—were all marked by a laconic or, perhaps more accurately, lackadaisical demeanor, suggesting that the twentieth century’s greatest orator really wanted to be miles away—at a Cuban baseball game, tangoing in Argentina, smoking Camels behind the barn, anywhere but where he was.
Read MorePray & Fight for the Underground Church and All Persecuted Believers
by Cong. Chris Smith | Mar 5, 2016 | America, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics | 0 |
“Then they asked me, ‘Habila, are you ready to die as a Christian?’ I told them, ‘I am ready to die as a Christian.’ For the second time, they asked me, ‘Are you ready to die as a Christian? and I told them, ‘I am ready,’
Read MoreTrump Redux as Thousands Cheer – But Why?
by Carl C. Curtis | Feb 25, 2016 | 2016 Election, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics | 0 |
He’ll be the most presidential man the country has ever seen once he’s gotten over his penchant to bully and blather his way through the debates, calling his opponents liars and idiots. And allowing for his whining, he’s tough.
Read MorePope’s Imprudent Comments Will Only Help Trump
by Damian Thompson | Feb 19, 2016 | 2016 Election, America, Bishops, Catholic Church, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics | 7 |
Trump may be a master opportunist, not least when the subject of his religious convictions is raised, but it’s hard to imagine any politician denounced in this offhand fashion deciding not to hit back.
Read MoreFor Christmas: Books Containing a Witness to Human Horror
by Deal Hudson | Dec 6, 2015 | Books, Culture, Featured, Foreign Affairs, History, Politics, Spirituality | 0 |
Levi speaks as a scientist turned humanist and philosopher, as an ethnic Jew who looks upon religion appreciatively but from the outside. One might say this book contains a portrait of ‘humanity in the raw’…..
Read MorePrayer: A Power the World Does Not Know to Combat Terrorism
by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 6, 2015 | Bishops, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Spirituality | 0 |
My priest, a godly man, had to admit that many times even he did not have that much daily time for prayer.
Read MoreAfter ISIS in Paris, Fear is the Great Paralyzer
by Joshua Katz | Nov 17, 2015 | America, Featured, Foreign Affairs, History | 2 |
Continuing to believe that ISIS does not pose a threat to the US or our way of life would be akin to burying our head in the sand and hoping that we don’t see what is coming. And it is definitely coming.
Read MoreParis and the Peril of the West: “Like déjà vu all over again.”
by Carl C. Curtis | Nov 14, 2015 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, History, Politics | 1 |
Amid the new hashtags and declarations of solidarity on Facebook, actor Rob Lowe Tweeted the truth: “Oh, NOW France closes its borders.” Yahoo’s “The Wrap” would have none of it. “Rob Lowe Ripped for Paris Attack Tweets,” the headline shrieked. Rob must mind his manners.
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