Month: May 2022

Abortion Support Abating in Italy

In Western Europe, Italy has been engaged for several years in a long and discreet process of reducing the practice of abortion. Without any publicised legislative change, without any loud political battle, the Italian population is gradually showing its opposition to a practice that generates a lot of suffering.

Peaceful Nigerians Facing Genocide, African Charity Warns

The charity has been investigating the circumstance of the latest deadly attack on peaceful farmers, a massacre of families working in their fields, but warns that the incident is “only the tip of the iceberg.”

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

I would rather be ostracized for the truth than hide in shame living a lie. I refuse to embrace an illiberal, totalitarian ‘liberalism’ based upon distorted versions of truth, justice, and history.

COVID-19 Digital Classrooms Collected Student Data

During COVID-19 school closures, classes took place online, and most digital platforms used tracking technologies that trailed children both inside their virtual classrooms and beyond, across the internet, over time. These various trackers were impossible to avoid or erase even if the child users or their parents were aware that it was happening.

Lest We Forget: a Hungarian Woman’s Experience of WWII Soviet Aggression

“A fellow Hungarian villager, Feri Augusztin, came to my father and told him to hand over his daughters, me and my sister Ella, to the Russians. This was the same person who earlier chased the Jews out of their homes. He informed the Russians that we were wealthy Hungarians and threatened Dad, saying that they would execute him unless he gave up his daughters.”

Frontex: Illegal Migration Into EU Up Nearly 70% Year Over Year 

Frontex: Illegal Migration Into EU Up Nearly 70% Year Over Year 

Frontex, the EU’s border agency, recorded 57,800 illegal entries to the bloc between January and April of this year, representing an increase of 69% compared to the same period last year. 

May 27, 2022
COVID-19 Digital Classrooms Collected Student Data

COVID-19 Digital Classrooms Collected Student Data

During COVID-19 school closures, classes took place online, and most digital platforms used tracking technologies that trailed children both inside their virtual classrooms and beyond, across the internet, over time. These various trackers were impossible to avoid or erase even if the child users or their parents were aware that it was happening.

May 27, 2022
Partygate: Sue Gray Publishes Findings of Internal Probe

Partygate: Sue Gray Publishes Findings of Internal Probe

Although her probe was non-criminal, the one magistrate to which Gray’s findings are subject is the court of public opinion.

May 27, 2022
Cardinal Zen Brought to Court; Trial Planned for September

Cardinal Zen Brought to Court; Trial Planned for September

Cardinal Joseph Zen, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong since 2009, was arrested on May 11th by the Chinese authorities, along

Lest We Forget: a Hungarian Woman’s Experience of WWII Soviet Aggression

Lest We Forget: a Hungarian Woman’s Experience of WWII Soviet Aggression

“A fellow Hungarian villager, Feri Augusztin, came to my father and told him to hand over his daughters, me and my sister Ella, to the Russians. This was the same person who earlier chased the Jews out of their homes. He informed the Russians that we were wealthy Hungarians and threatened Dad, saying that they would execute him unless he gave up his daughters.”

The World Shifting Beneath Our Feet: An Interview with <b>N.S. Lyons</b>

The World Shifting Beneath Our Feet: An Interview with <b>N.S. Lyons</b>

“I think conspiracy theories are proliferating because we can all feel the ground shifting under our feet but have no easy way to understand and make sense of that feeling of chaos.”—N.S. Lyons

The U.S. and EU Imagine No Borders—Except for Ukraine

The U.S. and EU Imagine No Borders—Except for Ukraine

A misinformed ideal of humanitarianism has American and European ruling parties recklessly pushing open borders without considering the costs or long-term consequences—not just for the host country but also for the mass influx of immigrants.

WHO Seeks New Far-Reaching Powers at World Health Assembly

WHO Seeks New Far-Reaching Powers at World Health Assembly

The WHO is seeking to amend the International Health Regulations and impose a global pandemic treaty, both of which would grant the global health body new far-reaching powers that would allow it intervene in the affairs of nation-states in the event of a future pandemic.

May 26, 2022
The Witness of a Suffering Church

The Witness of a Suffering Church

In 1989, with the fall of what Ronald Reagan rightly called the “evil empire,” this magnificent Church of martyrs emerged from the catacombs of communism, not liquidated, not re-educated, but forged like gold in the furnace of persecution.

President Novák’s Warsaw Visit to Improve Hungarian-Polish Relations

President Novák’s Warsaw Visit to Improve Hungarian-Polish Relations

The new Hungarian President Katalin Novák took the initiative and announced in her inaugural speech on May 14th that her first foreign trip would be to Poland. This gesture was warmly welcomed by President Duda.

Inflation Still Rising in Most of EU

Inflation Still Rising in Most of EU

The EU inflation rate rose at varying rates from March to April, from 5.4% in France and Malta to 19.1% in Estonia.

May 26, 2022
Viral Democracy: The Pandemic and the True Nature of Our Politics

Viral Democracy: The Pandemic and the True Nature of Our Politics

No totalitarian state can firmly establish itself without identifying its enemies, those who are deemed to be dangerous for both state and society. This time, the scapegoats are the unvaccinated.