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Church Is Source of Uplifting Beauty in COVID Crisis

by John Horvat II June 3, 2021December 29, 2020

Paris is the City of Light, full of spectacle, beauty, and art. Yet in these dreary times of coronavirus lockdown, the theaters and concert halls are silent and dark. Artistic beauty finds no refuge from the draconian restrictions that constrain the body and stifle the soul. The New York Times culture critic … Read more

Green Madness Tries to Destroy the Netherlands

by Hugo Bos December 29, 2020December 28, 2020

In early 2020, I had the honor of editing the book Green is the New Red, which was put together by a study committee of the Civitas Christiana Foundation. We sought to denounce the environmentalist maneuvers and help the Netherlands face the threats that, in the name of ecology, daily menace the … Read more

Pope Francis’s Idolatrous Nativity Scene Is the Opposite of Saint Francis’s

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo December 23, 2020December 22, 2020

Christmas festivities would not be complete without the Nativity scene, which reminds us of the great grace received by humanity: the birth of Christ, true God and true Man. It was Saint Francis of Assisi who put together the first Manger scene for Christmas, 1223, in the village of Greccio, in the … Read more

Marijuana Use: the Basis for a Godless Culture

by Rex Teodosio June 3, 2021December 22, 2020

Many discuss the dangers of marijuana but few address how it can destroy Western Christian culture. The Liberal Agenda To Legalize Marijuana However, this harm is plausible, given the left’s efforts to make the legalization of marijuana a vital part of its agenda. A decriminalization bill will soon be presented to the … Read more

Are the Vatican and Business Leaders Working to Improve or Destroy Capitalism?

by John Horvat II June 3, 2021December 18, 2020

Socialism has failed worldwide because it uses the government’s brutal power to force people into its anti-natural program against private property. It also suppresses the social, economic and religious forces that are the natural defenses against its destruction. However, the ideological virus has the uncanny ability to mutate. When one plan shipwrecks, … Read more

Why Learning to Love Debt Is Not a Good Idea

by John Horvat II June 3, 2021December 17, 2020

It is that time again when liberals, sensing the possibility of being in control, are revving up the debt engines. So many things need to be done in a post-COVID world, and there is so little revenue to pay for it. Debt is the way out, they claim. Now is the time … Read more

We Need a Great Reset (Not the One You’re Thinking of)

by John Horvat II June 3, 2021December 16, 2020

There is a major plan for change in society that is called the Great Reset. Rarely have I seen a plan so openly laid out to the public. Time magazine devoted a whole issue to the subject. Most major corporation CEOs (the Davos crowd) have signed on to the proposal. This is … Read more

The Marvelous Miracle of Empel Shows the Power of the Immaculate Conception

by Rex Teodosio February 11, 2021December 15, 2020

On December 8, 1585, a miracle happened involving the Immaculate Conception. During the Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648), Spanish troops faced a revolt in the Netherlands. There were many reasons that caused the war, but it was divided along religious lines. Thus, the Spanish Catholics who ruled the Low Countries as they were … Read more

Three Gift Suggestions for a Christmas that is Not Ordinary

by John Horvat II June 3, 2021December 14, 2020

This isn’t an ordinary Christmas. In many places, officials are trying to steal Christmas from those who wish to celebrate it in churches. Families are discouraged from holding get-togethers in the home. Thus, we are left to observe this Christmas in our hearts, where no force can enter, but we still feel … Read more

Astonishing: How the Establishment Sold Out to Bob Dylan

by John Horvat II December 11, 2020December 10, 2020

Bob Dylan has just sold his entire 600-song catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group for an estimated $300 million. The move is highly symbolic yet hardly surprising. The 79-year-old artist has always been a paradoxical and symbolic character on the American music scene. The sixties folk singer became a rebel of the … Read more