Keynesianism and the Collectivist Dream
by William Sullivan – It’s campaign season, and as usual, Democrats are employing their class struggle rhetoric to position a redistributive government agenda as the only way Americans can be saved...
View ArticleProgressing toward Moral Darkness
by Gary Horne – A fashionable name for the left these days is “progressive.” The use of this word hints that the progressive has already passed the rest of us and is moving on to some place where the...
View ArticleAmerica: The Home of the…Compliant?
by Daren Jonescu – If you want a quick measure of the state of American society, you might consider the federal government’s use of unmanned aerial drones to monitor U.S. citizens, and in particular...
View ArticleThe End of America? The HHS Mandate’s Threat to Freedom
The Obama’s Administration’s mandate requiring the Catholic Church to conform to government dictates on contraception and abortifacent drugs is more than a war on the Catholic Church argue Jennifer...
View ArticleEarning Happiness — The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise
The words “happiness” and “free enterprise” don’t usually appear in the same sentence. Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, explains that the two are intimately and profoundly...
View ArticleIndependence Day Reflection: Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness
by F. K. Bartels – Man’s natural desire for happiness is of “divine origin: God has placed it in the human heart in order to draw man to the One who alone can fulfill it” (CCC 1718). … In June of 1776...
View ArticleArchbishop Chaput: Christians Must Render Themselves Unto God
by Archbishop Charles Chaput – Paul Claudel, the French poet and diplomat of the last century, once described the Christian as “a man who knows what he is doing and where he is going in a world [that]...
View ArticleCardinal Dolan on Fighting the Good Fight for Religious Freedom
by Cardinal Timothy Dolan – Over the course of the coming year, the effort to protect religious liberty and the freedom of conscience will continue. In the end, this is not about bishops, it is not...
View ArticleHobby Lobby’s Christian Owners Fight $1.3 Million-Per-Day HHS Mandate Fine
by Kathleen Gilbert – The Obama administration is set to levy as much as a $1.3 million per day fine against a Christian retail business based on their religious objection to abortifacient drugs,...
View ArticleHope in God, Do Not Despair
by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP – There are those who despair and have no hope when things do not go their way in the political order. This cannot be a Christian attitude. “The world itself now bears witness...
View ArticleReligious Freedom is Necessary for Other Freedoms to Flourish
by Thomas Farr – Is religious freedom necessary for other freedoms to flourish? This is indeed a big question. It implicates an array of philosophical issues and scholarly disciplines, but it also has...
View ArticleThanksgiving with Winston Churchill
by Jeffrey Folks – In an appearance at Royal Albert Hall on November 23, 1944, Winston Churchill spoke in honor of the American holiday of Thanksgiving. On that day, just as Hitler was about to unleash...
View ArticleSacrifice and Self-Interest
by Jordan Ballor – One of the complaints often rendered against the market economy is that it encourages selfish behavior. This picture of the marketplace is that of a kind of war of all against all,...
View ArticleChristians Must Not Retreat from the Culture, We Must Work for its Conversion
by Deacon Keith Fournier – Two years before becoming Pope, Karol Cardinal Wotyla spoke to the U.S. Bishops. His observation was republished in the Wall Street Journal on November 9, 1978: “We are now...
View ArticleWhy do Civilians Need Assault Weapons?
by Mark Almonte – The two strongest reasons for civilians to own assault weapons are self-defense and defense against tyranny. One self-defense situation that comes to mind is the L.A. riots. Who can...
View ArticleWhen Free Speech Died in Canada
by Joe Carter – When future historians attempt to narrow down the exact point at which the concept of free speech died in Canada, they’ll likely point to Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v....
View ArticleThe Great Surrender
by Daren Jonescu – Those who have been forcibly divested of their natural liberty by tyrants must be pitied. They have been coerced into accepting lies of security and state beneficence as paltry...
View ArticleAn Orthodox Christian Moral Case for Property Rights
by Fr. Gregory Jensen – As a pastor, I’ve been struck by the hostility, or at least suspicion, that some Orthodox Christians reveal in their discussions of private property. While there are no doubt...
View ArticleIf You Like Your God, You Can Keep Him
by Betsy McCaughey – On Nov. 1, the Gilardi brothers, devout Roman Catholics who operate their own fresh produce business in Ohio, won round two in a battle against the White House. The Obama...
View ArticleU.S. Constitution Does Not Prohibit Religious References in Public Places and...
by Mike Miller (Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) – During a speech at Colorado Christian University on Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the U.S. Constitution does not...
View ArticleThe Importance of Saying ‘Merry Christmas’
by Dennis Prager – The nearly universal change from wishing fellow Americans “Merry Christmas” to wishing them “Happy Holidays” is a very significant development in American life. Proponents of “Happy...
View ArticlePillars of Modern American Conservatism
by Alfred Regnery – The basic foundations of American conservatism consist of liberty and freedom, tradition and order, rule of law, and belief in God. Over the past half century, conservatism has...
View ArticleBy Whom Shall We Be Led – God Or Man?
by Jeffrey T. Brown – The God of the Bible is anathema to secular leftists. As evidence of that, we see a troubling rise in anti-Christian and anti-Semitic bigotry from the political left, both at home...
View ArticleAmerica, the Religious Persecution Storm is Upon Us
by Franklin Graham – For some time now, I’ve been warning about the coming storm of religious persecution and oppression in America. Over the course of the past year, I’ve become increasingly convinced...
View ArticleAt Risk Is Nothing Less Than the Right Ever to Resist Again
by Jeffrey T. Brown – Vote as if your right to live, to worship, to speak, and to ever be heard again, that is your right to be a free and independent American citizen, depends on this election,...
View ArticleSaving the American Republic
by Archpriest Alexander F. C. Webster – Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation’s greatest founding fathers, was asked by a resident of Philadelphia after the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention...
View ArticleIs Academic Freedom Still Available to Science Teachers?
by Sarah Chaffee – The idea that students are well served by creative, challenging instruction would seem uncontroversial. Except, that is, when the subject is evolution. Imagine two science teachers....
View ArticleRussia Affirms and Defends Traditional Marriage, Rejects LGBTQ Delusion
by Fr. Ioannes Apiarius – Russia’s Constitution now openly honors God, affirms marriage, and supports the Christian faith. It officially recognizes the authority and role of the Orthodox Church in the...
View ArticleThe Stars and Stripes Forever – Stand Up to Marxist Evil Threatening America
by Fr. Abbot Tryphon – Stand up to those who would destroy our nation’s heritage. Earlier today it was announced that the statue of Christopher Columbus that has long stood before the state capital in...
View ArticleUltimate Goal of ANTIFA and BLM = Dismantle Western Christian Civilization
by Fr. Abbot Tryphon – For all those individuals who have seen the mass demonstrations in the streets of Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, and countless other cities across the country, and still...
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