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The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics
Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The vast stretches of farmland were overflowing with corn and fruit orchards. Here,...
Jihadism Re-Emerges in Europe
There is a recurring pattern: The perpetrators are young, Arab men who reside illegally in Europe and have not yet been repatriated. They act alone, armed with a knife,...
The Dereliction of Europe’s Religious Buildings
In October 1943, Winston Churchill eloquently expressed the importance of architecture in a speech calling for the reconstruction of the House of Commons, which was bombed in 1941: “We...
Are Spain’s Catholic Schools Still Catholic?
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them,” wrote the satirist P. J. O’Rourke. Perhaps this is why Catholic parents are wary when activists, almost...
Europe Was Born in Pilgrimage
Sometimes we are so busy reporting on the moral decline of Europe that more encouraging news goes unnoticed. The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, is receiving record...
