In the 1970s, as Pope Paul VI faced wholesale rebellion by progressives in the Church, he wielded his papal authority instead to persecute the small numbers of Catholics who resisted the most expansive readings of Vatican II. As a flag of resistance, these traditionalists also rejected the new, ...
I would especially like to believe the theories of David Icke, a former British soccer player who "discovered" the fact that the world has been dominated, for the past 10,000 years, by a race of alien lizard-men who can take on human form. According to Icke, keeping up a human appearance is ...
Here's one aspect of the amnesty which no one is talking about: The moment each of these illegals receives his walking papers, he will be eligible for affirmative action preferences over every white male in America. Including veterans of the Iraq war. Instead of guarding the U.S. borders, our men ...
What happened to turn wealthy sixth-century Gaul into the howling wasteland it would become just a hundred years later? It was the Islamic conquest of the Middle East and North Africa, which cut Europe off from the ancient centers of grain production in Egypt, and Asiatic trade in Syria and Persia. ...
The Feast of Pentecost is one of the most important to Christians, for a number of reasons. First, it marks the birthday of the Church, the day when the Holy Spirit came down on the Apostles and Mary, and gave everyone the nerve they needed to preach the risen Christ to a hostile mob. Pentecost ...
St. Dymphna was buried in Gheel, where she was martyred, and a shrine was built in her honor. Several centuries later, a group of "madmen" who"d been driven from town to town happened upon the shrine"and were miraculously cured. Word of this cure spread quickly, in a world without ...
If there's one thing that makes people happier than finding a forgotten bottle in the cupboard or a six pack in the fridge, it's finding out that world events are dominated by an evil conspiracy. It's hard to explain why such a discovery proves so consoling, but it does: Some 35 million people ...
The prophets whom God sent to His people carried a two-fold message, which can be boiled down to this: "Go to Temple"and don"t provoke the goyim!" Again and again, the prophets of Israel countered the claims of ambitious kings and zealous nationalists (think of them as the first ...
Easter was once something more than an uptick on the sales charts of the milk-chocolate industry. Instead, it was like the last day of a very bad school"a feast of liberation, an end to dreary rules, celibacy, and fish-sticks. You can see why this would inspire the brewing of Easter beer. The ...
