Month: April 2022

Swedish NATO Accession Facing Problems

With my direct experience and decades-long analysis of Swedish politics, I question whether the Swedish Parliament can sustainably fund a NATO membership. However, even if they do, there is another, more controversial aspect: the rise of radical Islamism.

Riots Plague Sweden in Past Week

“Mr. Paludan had been granted permission to perform public Koran burnings, but his events attracted violent protests, resulting in the destruction of several police vehicles and multiple injured officers.” 

Rootedness & Refugees

What many globalist idealists cannot accept is that it is in man’s nature to love more strongly according to proximity. There are bonds that run deeply within the human heart and mind and are the center of community and cultures.

Spain: 2 Holy Week Processions Attacked by Anti-Christian Migrants 

Righteous indignation has filled the hearts of Spanish Catholics after faithful parishioners taking part in two Holy Week processions—one held on Palm Sunday and the other on Maundy Thursday—were attacked by gangs of anti-Christian migrants last week.

Fleeing from Facts

After an MP had just been murdered in cold blood, and without evidence that social media played any role in causing the heinous act, the spectacle of MPs wasting parliamentary time with irrelevant distractions was a shameful scandal. For how much longer will the political class flee from reality rather than face unpleasant facts?

The Means to European Prosperity

You don’t make promises you can’t keep. Nor do you keep an economic structure that can’t promise growth and prosperity.

MEPs Investigate Prostitution of Minors in Balearic Islands

MEPs Investigate Prostitution of Minors in Balearic Islands

According to the Diario de Mallorca, social workers attest that in approximately the last four years, prostitution among their charges has changed from a rare incident to an almost normalized phenomenon. In some centres, all the girls have engaged in prostitution.  

April 18, 2022
Ukraine Claims Iconic Hit to Russian War Ship

Ukraine Claims Iconic Hit to Russian War Ship

If Ukraine has indeed put the Moskva—a 12,500-ton guided missile cruiser—out of commission, at least for now, the victory is not only substantial but also iconic. 

April 18, 2022
Cervantes and Empire

Cervantes and Empire

Miguel de Cervantes presents us with the mirrored vices of savagery and civilization. Like Tacitus, he celebrates indigenous prerogative to resist foreign excess, even as he asserts the imperial principle.

Coached by Joan of Arc, Christians Must Re-engage: An Interview with <strong>Alexandre Dianine-Havard</strong>

Coached by Joan of Arc, Christians Must Re-engage: An Interview with <strong>Alexandre Dianine-Havard</strong>

“Children should be educated in greatness, not only in integrity. They must learn to do that which is great, and not only that which is right.” —Alexandre Dianine-Havard

April 17, 2022
Les Républicains Under 5%: The Shipwreck of the French Governmental Right

Les Républicains Under 5%: The Shipwreck of the French Governmental Right

The key to the survival of the main party of the French governmental right used to be political, now it is financial.

April 17, 2022
German Bundestag Votes Against Mandatory Vaccination

German Bundestag Votes Against Mandatory Vaccination

The German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach spent months campaigning to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations. But the parliamentary vote on April 7th clearly rejected all proposals.

April 17, 2022
Rediscovering Awe: Antoine Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass”

Rediscovering Awe: Antoine Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass”

More than 500 years ago Antoine Brumel wrote a 12-part Mass that allows us to experience the uninhibited spirituality of the pre-Reformation world of the early 16th century. Its construction from a tiny motif of Gregorian chant from the Easter Lauds is nothing less than awe-inspiring.

April 17, 2022
Ukrainians Helping Ukrainians in Western Pennsylvania

Ukrainians Helping Ukrainians in Western Pennsylvania

“As an American citizen, I can’t wrap my mind around this, how people who share the same faith—because Russia is predominantly Orthodox, and Ukraine is predominantly Orthodox—could be so evil to each other. But then, we have to think about Cain and Abel, he killed his brother, so, nothing new under the sun, unfortunately,” Rev. Tomson said.

April 16, 2022
The Tragedy of Transgender Children

The Tragedy of Transgender Children

The madness of transgender children is the culmination of an ideological delusion that has been with us for many years. It is based on the erroneous idea that we can free ourselves from the sexual differences that are rooted in the bodies of men and women.

April 16, 2022
Italy Signs Energy Deal with Algeria

Italy Signs Energy Deal with Algeria

Italy’s energy infrastructure is not only relevant to its domestic consumption, but to all of Europe, being a key potential entry-point for the EU to receive north African energy, including hydrogen.

Spanish Supreme Court Condemns Surrogacy and Surrogacy Advertising

Spanish Supreme Court Condemns Surrogacy and Surrogacy Advertising

The judges ruled unanimously, and condemned both surrogacy and the practice of surrogacy agencies recruiting clients in Spain.

April 16, 2022
The Nine Worthies and the Present Age

The Nine Worthies and the Present Age

What the nine worthies provided was a thematically unified account, a sweeping narrative, from Homer through the Bible and into Christendom, which western Europeans could use to understand and in some wise enshrine the canon of their history. The question we may venture to ask, in whose answer we might come to understand our era and its place, is whether it is possible to discern modernity’s worthies.