This is a big day in the Church calendar, packed with theological significance: On one night, Jesus held His last dinner with His apostles, washed their feet, said the first Mass, established the priesthood and episcopate, offered up His perfect obedience to His father in the garden of Gethsemane, rebuked His disciples for napping, and was betrayed by Judas and arrested. … [Read More]

They are back, just when you thought it was safe. I mean the Feminazi crowd. And guess what they have in store for you? Why, they intend to re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment in both Houses of Congress. The original fight should have been over in 1977 but then Congress gave the ladies (please forgive that term in this context) another … [Read More]

If the Antichrist will be a pacifist, as Giacomo Cardinal Biffi (following Vladimir Solovyov) argued in his recent Lenten meditation for the papal household, is the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, positioning himself as the Second Coming? Santorum made his name as a social conservative, championing traditional positions on abortion, homosexuality, and marriage, and not a few viewed him … [Read More]

Last week I spent some days in Washington,  D.C. for a conference organized by Fran Griffin at the National Press Club. The subject was Sam Francis, and his terrific book, Shots Fired, about America’s culture wars. Alas, Sam Francis passed away two years ago, having been hounded by the neocons and dismissed as columnist of the Washington Times for his views—which … [Read More]