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Sohrab Ahmari
In 2014, France’s High Audiovisual Council, the government body that regulates broadcast advertising in that country, banned one of the most moving TV commercials ever made. Titled “Dear Future Mom,” the ad addressed women pregnant with children diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Dear future . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite rejecting almost in toto the Church’s account of faith and reason, Sacks nevertheless credited it for the fundamental humaneness of Western civilization. Continue Reading »
Cluny Media republishes rare and hard-to-find classics of Catholic letters. Continue Reading »
In 1951, security forces in communist Czechoslovakia arrested Silvester Krčméry—and as they were taking him away, he burst out laughing. The young physician knew what he was about to face: years behind bars, shattering physical and mental torture, the loss of his professional career. Yet . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian witness suffers terribly when Christians adopt the left’s theories of history and methods of social change. Continue Reading »
Today's riots are the effect of four years of irresponsible exercises in middle-brow hysteria about American democracy giving way to fascism. Continue Reading »
Monsignor Ronald Knox lived such an outstanding life that one can’t but feel the utter inadequacy of one’s own next to its record. Continue Reading »
Today’s iconoclasm fails to uphold any permanent ideals against which the past or the present might rightly be judged. Continue Reading »
Let those who constantly rail against Pope Francis without listening to his words finally listen. Continue Reading »
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that governments can blacklist midwives who refuse to assist with abortions. Continue Reading »
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