At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right—ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence by ideological fanatics; feckless responses to both from the democracies—it’s good to be reminded that things can be different, and in fact were different, . . . . Continue Reading »
For decades, the Sexual Revolution was supposed to be about freedom. Today, it is about coercion. Once, it sought to free our sexual choices from restrictive laws and unwanted consequences. Now, it seeks to free our sexual choices from other people's disapproval. Continue Reading »
Members of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law. This Inquisition, though, will not be defeated by reasoned pleas but by concerted counterattacks. Continue Reading »
“Who today still speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?”Continue Reading »
—Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939
A serious push for British independence is such a challenge to the new, supranational Europe that it throws the whole system out of gear.
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The fact that doctors are free to prescribe lethally for people with illnesses outside their areas of medical specialization demonstrates the folly of legalizing doctor-prescribed death. Continue Reading »
Today is the most important day in European politics since the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Continue Reading »
Right-leaning wage-earners and right-leaning small-business owners are not in sync. Continue Reading »
The Church affirms that human beings are by nature suited to contract marriage, and she teaches that Christian couples can call upon the graces of the sacrament of Matrimony in living out the marriages they contract. Against such an ancient and affirming tradition, Francis’s assertion that “the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null” shocked both common sense and Catholic sensibility. Continue Reading »
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