Nineteenth-century France was the scene of bitter cultural and political conflict. The German invasion in 1870 inflicted a humiliating defeat on the French army. As the Germans put Paris under siege, the Second Empire of Napoleon III collapsed. Radical anti-Catholic leftists took control of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Having fallen away from both Christianity and American civil religion, liberals in the United States are looking for something to believe in. The death of George Floyd on May 25 occasioned a religious awakening. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Americans took to the streets by the tens and hundreds . . . . Continue Reading »
It was late May and early June. Black Lives Matter protests were gripping cities across the nation. They were accompanied by violence and destruction, yet the media cheered and mayors announced their support. Polling indicated that the American public was sympathetic. But aside from spontaneous . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that the Department of Education has followed through on the admission of racist guilt at one campus, we should expect to see similar confessions on the part of college presidents halt immediately. Continue Reading »
Our country requires a new birth of civil rights rooted in natural law.
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The new religion of anti-racism encourages people to practice what Jesus condemned: “Do not judge, lest you too be judged” (Matt. 7:1). Continue Reading »
The future of the Catholic Church is not with AOC’s bigoted projections, but with St. Damien of Molokai. Continue Reading »
Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor by angela alaimo o’donnell fordham, 192 pages, $30 In 1974, ten years after Flannery O’Connor died, Alice Walker visited O’Connor’s farm in Georgia. It was located minutes from the sharecropper shack where Walker had once lived. Walker had . . . . Continue Reading »
The story of the last fifty years is a lot more complicated than the narrative of oppression and systemic racism. Continue Reading »
Loyola University Maryland announced that it is renaming the Flannery O’Connor Residence Hall on campus. Continue Reading »
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