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The War Over Pope Pius XII

Was Pope Pius XII – the pope during the second World War a Nazi sympathizer or a heroic savior of the Jews? The battle has raged over how much Pius XII knew, what he did or didn’t do and what he could have done and didn’t do. Those on the attack like John Cornwell (who [Read More...]

Understanding Iraq

To understand what’s going on in Iraq and Syria we really have to understand the religious dimension of the strife. Here’s a simple explanation: First we have to understand that the religious strife is totally linked with tribal loyalties. A good parallel is the strife in Northern Ireland. You had Irish Catholics in the South [Read More...]

Are We Living in the End Times?

In the fundamentalist Bible church I attended as a child we would regularly have long sermons about the “end times”. These were based on an interpretative system of the Bible called “Dispensationalism”. The roots of this theology were the idea that history could be broken down into various “dispensations” or time periods and that God [Read More...]

Obama Fiddles While the World Burns

Dan Henninger at the Wall Street Journal analyzes President Obama’s disastrous foreign policy here. The fall of Mosul, Iraq, to al Qaeda terrorists this week is as big in its implications as Russia’s annexation of Crimea. But from the Obama presidency, barely a peep. Barack Obama is fiddling while the world burns. Iraq, Pakistan, Ukraine, Russia, Nigeria, Kenya, [Read More...]

Serial Baby Killers in the UK

Serial abortion is on the rise in the UK with an increasing number of women using abortion as a means of contraception. This article for The Telegraph reveals statistics on the alarming growth of this killer of the future British population. Abortion is increasingly being used simply as a form of “contraception”, MPs claimed as [Read More...]

Christians Fleeing Before Muslim Fanatics in Iraq

This article from ZENIT reports from Iraq on the Christians fleeing for their lives from the city of Mosul–once home to 35,000 Chaldean Christians. The Archbishop there says “There is probably not one Christian left.” Speaking today to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Archbishop Amel Nona said he thought Mosul’s last remaining [Read More...]

Is Christian Culture Superior?

Once again the Daily Telegraph has the guts to publish a well written, clearly argued piece that cuts across the liberal orthodoxy. There’s a fuss in England at the moment because state funded schools in predominantly Asian communities are being taken over by Muslims with an agenda. They are loading the school board and attempting [Read More...]

Catholic Ghostbusters – It’s Not Always Big and Scary

An email today outlines some of the problems with the Catholic Church today: I read the article you wrote for This Rock re. the supernatural. I was somewhat disappointed because I live in a house that was once haunted(by human spirits, not demons). I wanted to learn the Churches teaching on paranormal activity, and was [Read More...]

A New Muslim Force For Unimaginable Terror

London’s Daily Telegraph really is the world’s best news source. Compared to the American papers and networks with their mix of shallow left wing ideologies and celebrity gossip, the Telegraph offers sensible conservative, sound and objective reporting. This article by Peter Osborne, combined with embedded links, explains succinctly and brilliantly the horrible morass in the [Read More...]

Catholicism: the True Mega Church

Lest you are somewhat dismayed at times over the gloomy news of the state of our culture, be of good cheer. Deacon Kandra reports here that the Catholic Church ain’t going out of business anytime soon. Indeed, the church continues to grow around the world  and the twentieth century was boom time. Viewed globally the [Read More...]