For decades, the trajectory of LGBT acceptance in the United States followed a steady, upward path. However, public sentiment is taking a step back toward sanity. It is not a huge step, but it breaks the downward slide to decadence. The trend shows signs of continuing. A recent Gallup poll indicates Americans are shifting slightly … Read more
On May 27, 2026, Vladimir Putin’s Russia signed a “military and security cooperation agreement” with the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan. In at least two ways, this appears to be a very unlikely fellowship. However, irony often accompanies desperation. A Pair of Significant Ironies The first irony is that the one-time KGB colonel in the Kremlin … Read more
This article is the third part of a series about Purgatory, a topic that is rarely discussed today. A knowledge of Purgatory is essential if souls are to avoid the pains of this place of expiation. The first article can be found here. * * * About a half-hour’s drive southeast of Assisi … Read more
For over sixty years, Havana has offered the world one alibi for Cuba’s misery: El bloqueo, the American embargo. It is a marvelous excuse for its failure, since it keeps blaming a country ninety miles away. The evidence, however, proves the contrary. Havana insists the American embargo starved the island. But Cuba trades with half … Read more
The steady rise in adult Catholic converts across the West over the past five years has made headlines and given hope to the faithful. Nowhere has this caused a bigger stir than in France, the first-born daughter of the Church. Naturally, most of the attention has been on the numbers. According to the French Bishops’ … Read more
When Vladimir Putin sent his columns rolling toward Kyiv in February 2022, he was certain of victory in a few short weeks. He picked the wrong target. For the first time since early 2023, the initiative has shifted to Kyiv, and the momentum in the Russo-Ukrainian war is on Kyiv’s side,” U.S. Under Secretary of … Read more
More than 1,000 public rosary rallies were held across America as part of the nation’s historic 250th anniversary celebrations. The tens of thousands who attended these rallies on July 11 gathered to pray for America’s conversion and “for peace in the world” just as Our Lady asked the shepherd children at the Cova da Iria … Read more
This article is the third part of a series about Purgatory, a topic that is rarely discussed today. A knowledge of Purgatory is essential if souls are to avoid the pains of this place of expiation. The first article can be found here. * * * Most modern Catholics hear almost nothing of … Read more
Most despotic regimes punish dissent inside their borders. What makes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime different is that it represses its citizens in other countries. Freedom House, the Washington-based democracy watchdog, has concluded that China runs “the most sophisticated, global and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.” Indeed, the CCP is determined … Read more
The issue is time. Daylight Saving Time. Congress is again attempting to make it permanent. If made law, there will be no more falling back and springing forward on the calendar. We will forever prolong the day with an additional hour of artificially perceived sunlight in the evening and languish in the morning darkness. Daylight … Read more
