Holy Week in Seville
by John Julius ReelThe Holy Spirit moves in the streets of Seville during Holy Week. Continue Reading »
Jihadism Re-Emerges in Europe
by Itxu DíazSpanish authorities are doing very little about the rise of violent jihadism in Spain. Continue Reading »
The Dereliction of Europe’s Religious Buildings
by Itxu DíazMany old churches are being neglected in Europe, but some organizations are undertaking measures to preserve those that remain. Continue Reading »
Are Spain’s Catholic Schools Still Catholic?
by Itxu DíazMany Catholic schools in Spain, voluntarily or not, are failing to teach students Church teaching on sexual issues. Continue Reading »
Europe Was Born in Pilgrimage
by Itxu DíazThe Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, is receiving record numbers of pilgrims this year. Continue Reading »
The Politics of Memory
by Stanley G. PayneIn January 2020, the Socialist government of Spain, led by Pedro Sánchez, proposed a bill of profound cultural and political significance: a “Law of Historical and Democratic Memory.” If adopted, this law will bring to completion a twenty-year effort on the part of the Spanish left to limit . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousAll attempts to fit Thomas Becket into a mold that echoes the interests or prejudices of the writer fail to do justice to the man or to the complexities of his situation. Once he was appointed archbishop of Canterbury, for good or ill, it was his responsibility to protect the interests of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Road to Revolution
by Stanley G. PayneThe classic theory of revolution was formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville, who observed in The Ancien Régime and the Revolution that “it was precisely in those parts of France where there had been the most improvement that popular discontent ran highest.” Revolution is not generally . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousGod’s Supersessionism David Novak (“Supersessionism Hard and Soft,” February) clearly demonstrates the negative consequences of the “hard” supersessionism and the positive benefits of the “soft.” I consider myself a soft supersessionist, meaning that the covenant God made with the Jews . . . . Continue Reading »
The Caudillo
by Peter HitchensFranco: Anatomy of a Dictator by enrique moradiellos i.b.tauris, 264 pages, $30 Not long after the successful Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944, Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, removed a photograph of Adolf Hitler from his desk in the Pardo Palace in Madrid. He promptly replaced . . . . Continue Reading »
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