As we gear up for the Thanksgiving holidays, many are preparing to engage in a strange new ritual that is crowding out the traditional turkey and pumpkin pie. The ritual, of course, is the extension of Black Friday shopping into Thanksgiving Day. It is a practice so shocking that we might as … Read more
China makes and exports an increasing number of torture instruments for use by special police squads, including material designed to repress mass riots and violate human rights, Madrid’s daily El País reported. According to Amnesty International and the Omega Foundation, today more Chinese companies than ever are making these instruments of terror … Read more
The first warning was pretty clear. Back in May, a group of central bankers and financial analysts met together in Basel, Switzerland and issued a report on the dire state of the world economy. The 2014 annual report of the Bank of International Settlements then claimed that the present climate is as … Read more
Twenty-six chaired professors in various scientific areas who teach or work in fourteen universities in Spain have published a book to debunk the alleged incompatibility between religion and science spread by “materialist scientists,” Spain’s Infocatólica news agency reported. The book was published one week after scientist Stephen Hawking reiterated he does not … Read more
On Sunday November 9, 2014, dozens of friends and supporters of the American Society for the Defene of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and America Needs Fatima gathered outside the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco to protest the blasphemous play Testament. Previously titled The Testament of Mary, the work makes a … Read more
It is not uncommon to hear that communism was “a good idea poorly implemented.” In spite of its actual experiences – all ending with catastrophic results – the idea that communism contains a “positive core” and is “friendly to the poor” reemerged at the World Meeting of Popular Movements organized at the … Read more
The New York Court of Appeals recently reviewed a mind-boggling case: a petition for the status of “legal person” for a chimpanzee. Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, is trying to gain human protections, including freedom from captivity, for a chimp named Tommy in upstate New York. The animal rights … Read more
Ebola has been a headline in the news for the last few months, and rightly so. The pernicious virus has thus far claimed the lives of over 5,000 people who have died very terrible deaths. The fear surrounding it is real since Ebola is particularly violent and painful. The infected person’s internal … Read more
The following remarks were delivered by H.I.R.H. Prince Bertrand of Orleans-Braganza, the Prince Imperial* of Brazil on October 21, 2014, the feast day of Blessed Karl, after a Mass celebrated at Old St. Mary’s Church in Washington, D.C. * * * Holy Mother Church gives us the saints not only as intercessors to whom … Read more
The latest elections proved beyond a doubt that America is a conservative nation. Despite everything, conservative ideas still resonate strongly with many Americans and definitely have a future. But a simple victory is not enough. This is because the present victory does not explain everything. While conservatives just won in 2014, they … Read more