The question seems absurd as any child preparing for First Communion knows the answer: “No! To receive Holy Communion one must be in the state of grace.” The Sin of Adulterous Concubinage The same 7-year old knows that a serious fault against any of the Ten Commandments (for example, adultery or concubinage) … Read more
A review of the book: Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit by Lendol Calder To paraphrase Robert Frost, something there is that does not like a consumer loan. Indeed, for a long time the idea of such credit created a sensation of discomfort, insecurity and even shame. Americans … Read more
BBC news business editor Robert Peston has analyzed how China’s economic slowdown can lead to a ‘third wave’ in the economic crisis that shook the world in 2008, G1 reported. The Chinese city of Wuhan is a case in point: it grew more than any other city in China over the last … Read more
""""[vc_column_text]On Saturday, February 22, members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) joined nearly 5,000 people who gathered for the inauguration of a monument to the victims of communism in Miami’s Tamiami Park in Florida. The monument, with its tall central column featuring the flag of … Read more
It is not often that one reads a book like Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go. Author John Horvat II presents an overview of the crisis inside modern economy and society and sketches a luminous … Read more
It was bad enough when the Obama administration announced that wind turbine facilities now have a thirty-year license to kill or injure, with impunity, two American icons: bald and golden eagles. While the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns a blind eye to this, it is now choking a $45 billion agricultural industry … Read more
Why GOProud Does Not Belong at CPAC! On February 20, 2014 The Wall Street Journal reported that, “Conservative Political Action Conference will welcome back a guest that has been shunned in recent years: GOProud, a conservative gay-rights organization.” GOProud is participating in CPAC as a guest, not as a “participating organization” or … Read more
All across the nation, parents are reacting to a new educational program called Common Core. Under this program, national standards and testing are being set up for students which will eventually give rise to a core curriculum that will fundamentally change the way American children are educated. Many states and dioceses have … Read more
The media in general are quick to throw doubt on relics and traditionally acclaimed holy objects of the Church. Few objects of veneration have attracted so much controversy as the Shroud of Turin. The debate was thought to have been concluded when scientists tested the authenticity of the burial cloth of Our … Read more
Hazardous chemicals have been detected in clothes for children made in China and sold by big Western brands such as Disney, Burberry and Adidas. This is the verdict rendered by the environmental organization Greenpeace after it submitted 82 items of 12 brands for analysis and found harmful chemicals in every one of … Read more