Edwin Benson 
An international legal struggle may be starting that could test the U.S. government’s determination to resist European attempts to dictate legal jurisdiction and procedure. In March 2025, the environmental activist group, Greenpeace USA, was found liable and ordered by a North Dakota court to pay over $660 million to the Texas-based corporation, … Read more
Loneliness is often associated with older people. It is easy to imagine an eighty-five-year-old woman in an empty and silent house, having only the company of a radio or television. Her husband and many of her friends are deceased. For the most part, she begins and ends her days alone, knowing that … Read more
China’s problems can be boiled down to two related issues: underpopulation and overproduction. Both are easy to trace to government policies and Communist ideology. A Population Disaster A recent article in Fortune spelled out the population issues in stark and simple terms. “China may be the only nation that could rival America’s … Read more
“They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand” Job 8:22. Perhaps no organization has been more consistently a “dwelling of the wicked” than Planned Parenthood. Since its establishment in 1921 as the American Birth Control League, hatred for the unborn has been … Read more
Never underestimate the desire of the left to obliterate the influence of Christianity, and particularly that of Our Lady. No battlefield is too small nor tradition too cherished to be a target. For its Revolution to succeed, the left must obliterate any official notice of the Mother of Our Lord. That is … Read more
The following article is one of a four-part series that features the life of Augustus Pugin, the renowned English Catholic architect of the nineteenth century. When examining the great Catholic figures, architects seldom rank among them. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is a name known to relatively few, but his influence is all … Read more
The doctrines related to Purgatory are among those most neglected by the Catholics today. It is, indeed, the rare homily that instructs the faithful about this vital topic. Far too many Catholics think that the Church abandoned the doctrine as a result of the Second Vatican Council. This condition exists despite the … Read more
The people of Green Charter Township have thwarted the desires of both the State of Michigan and the Chinese government. The state has now shelved a plan to build a massive Chinese battery plant in the rural western Michigan township about an hour’s drive north of Grand Rapids. The Chinese Are Coming! … Read more
By now, anyone who follows news about the ‘wokeness’ inherent in most public schools—and some private and even parochial schools as well—knows at least one story about some school promoting transsexuality. Usually, this involves a school official assisting a child to get “gender-affirming care” without parental knowledge or permission. A Changing, but … Read more
During the seventies, most American Catholic bishops, priests and laypeople rapidly abandoned the traditional devotions and trappings that had sustained the Church for generations. Those who objected often felt like strangers in their own spiritual homes. Three recent studies indicate that this trend is finally coming to an end. Three Studies, One … Read more