The survival of any traditional institution requires that, during historically critical moments, it remembers its reason for being, renewing its covenant with those it represents. Otherwise, it risks vacuity.
Those who are contemptuous of Christian civilisation continue their assault on our spiritual heritage. Defending it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify to those for whom erasing its traces from the public sphere has become a point of honour.
The victory this week of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni fits into this story as well. Her words—and perhaps, in the future, by the grace of God, her party’s actions—are nothing less than a full-throated disavowal of the West’s Chronos Complex.
Cardinal Zen’s arrest in May sparked a wave of international outrage, in contrast to the Vatican’s relative discretion on the matter. This ‘prudence,’ which could be viewed as excessive, provides the morally murky atmosphere necessary for the Vatican to renew the agreement with communist China.
The much-maligned German gas levy is about to be scrapped, said leading politicians of the governing SPD. What will replace it, however, is yet to be decided. Green politicians are lobbying for filling the financial gap with tax money.
The new sanctions package is expected to pave the way for the EU to declare a price cap on the oil it imports from Russia.
Like radicals in all corners of the world, instead of celebrating a leader and iconic figure, the government chose to make politics of the monarchy which has always stayed above the fray of politics.
A school shooting in the Russian city of Izhevsk cost the lives of at least 15 people, including 11 children, and injured 24 more. The same day, a young man about to be mobilized started firing shots at an enlistment office in Siberia.
The two memos, although they come from state services, flagrantly contradict the official discourse of the education minister, the indigenist Pap Ndiaye, who does everything to minimise the problem of the Islamisation of schools.
Two of the suspects, both originally from Sudan but who arrived in France in 2018, were indicted on Monday afternoon by a magistrate from the criminal division. They face 20 years in prison.
Evil leadership is no leadership at all. Nor is insane nor stupid leadership either. So let us look at their opposite qualities, which in fact define real, true leadership.
Meloni minced no words in her full renunciation of the political, social, and economic order that has waged war on Christian values. Someone, somewhere, notified YouTube, and got several links taken down.
