Repackaging the Free Market in Zimbabwe

Repackaging the Free Market in Zimbabwe 2

When Zimbabwe’s socialist government decreed a land reform program in 2000, revolutionary mobs invaded farms and evicted from their lands almost all of the nation’s white commercial farmers. These farmers, African-born and raised, turned the landlocked southern African nation into the breadbasket of the region. Their production of corn, tobacco and other … Read more

Who Is the Real Saint Anthony?

Who is the Real Saint Anthony?

There is a tendency nowadays to depict saints as people who bypass the realities of life and somehow attain sanctity with little effort. Here we have two pictures of Saint Anthony of Padua. The first is a fresco in the basilica dedicated to the saint in Padua, Italy, and it is the … Read more

Saint Peter Armengol

Saint Peter Armengol 3

Peter Armengol was born in Guárdia dels Prats, a small village in the archdiocese of Tarragon, Spain in 1238. He belonged to the house of the barons of Rocafort, descendants of the counts of Urgel, whose ancestors were directly linked to the counts of Barcelona and the monarchs of Aragon and Castile. … Read more

Cuba: Submarine of the Left

Cuba: Submarine of the Left

Introduction Normally, a ruthless military dictator of a small island country would weigh little in world events. Normally, the world community would try to ostracize this ruthless leader and hasten the day when the nation could live in freedom. However, that logic does not apply when it comes to one military dictator. … Read more

Indian Tribalism: The Communist-Missionary Ideal for Brazil in the Twenty-First Century

Indian Tribalism: The Communist-Missionary Ideal for Brazil in the Twenty-First Century

Contents: Introduction PART I – The Traditional Catholic Concept of the Missions 1.  Concept of the Mission 2. The Highest End of the Mission: Essentially Religious – the Glory of God and Eternal Happiness 3. Effects of the Mission in Temporal Life 4. The Mission and the Indians 5. An Impossible Solution for the Missionary: To Do … Read more