
Why Ukraine Cannot Become Part of the EU
Full membership cannot be granted as a political gesture, lest the Union risk falling apart.

Full membership cannot be granted as a political gesture, lest the Union risk falling apart.

Over the past three years, state pressure on Christians in Algeria has intensified to levels unseen in decades, Open Doors said.

“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”

The statue is a daily reminder that we are in the midst of a reconquest—in the United States, and, of course, in Europe.

“Is it not possible that Europe, which once sent missionaries to the ends of the earth, may yet find itself re-Christianized by the very peoples it once sought to convert?”

There is something rather mysterious about the aura surrounding this green bottle, crafted in silence by the monks.

Budapest’s real offence was not what it did, but that it did it first and said so loudly.

The Cristo de Mena, after being beaten by the mob, was burned along with other religious images; only part of one leg and one foot of the Christ were spared.

When we look at our struggles, our anxieties, and our loneliness, we must remember that Christ has already descended into that darkness.

If the end desired by God was the redemption of man in such a way as to bring man into full union with Himself—that is, to make us saints in loving union with Him—then there could have been no other way.
Full membership cannot be granted as a political gesture, lest the Union risk falling apart.
Over the past three years, state pressure on Christians in Algeria has intensified to levels unseen in decades, Open Doors said.
“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”
The statue is a daily reminder that we are in the midst of a reconquest—in the United States, and, of course, in Europe.
“Is it not possible that Europe, which once sent missionaries to the ends of the earth, may yet find itself re-Christianized by the very peoples it once sought to convert?”
There is something rather mysterious about the aura surrounding this green bottle, crafted in silence by the monks.
Budapest’s real offence was not what it did, but that it did it first and said so loudly.
The Cristo de Mena, after being beaten by the mob, was burned along with other religious images; only part of one leg and one foot of the Christ were spared.
When we look at our struggles, our anxieties, and our loneliness, we must remember that Christ has already descended into that darkness.
If the end desired by God was the redemption of man in such a way as to bring man into full union with Himself—that is, to make us saints in loving union with Him—then there could have been no other way.
As Trump distances the U.S. from the ongoing maritime crisis, 37 nations have signed a landmark pledge to restore freedom of navigation through the Tehran-controlled Strait of Hormuz.
Macron criticized the shifting U.S. stance on the Iran conflict, warning that any military action could expose shipping to Iranian coastal threats and ballistic missile attacks.