
The Merz Affair and Germany’s War on Free Speech
In a democracy, citizens must have the right to express their frustration with those who govern them.

In a democracy, citizens must have the right to express their frustration with those who govern them.

Teresa Gerns, the Council of Europe advocacy director for the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe, will lead a committee examining the barriers women face when trying to balance paid work and motherhood.

Every April 23rd, as sure as night follows day, the UK commentariat loves to sneer at ordinary English people.

When peace among nations becomes the ultimate end of religion, religions are reduced to geopolitical instruments.

For progressives, ‘liberalism’ now means ‘the compelled acceptance and legal implementation of LGBT ideology.’ To oppose it, conversely, is thus ‘illiberalism.’

Britain doesn’t need to learn any more lessons—it needs the will to act.
Moral vanity is the sin into which we can all too easily fall when our ethical model becomes one of fleeing evil, not imitating goodness.

Seeking to defend the family within the discourse of modern rights is like trying to save Gondor by using the Ring.

Ultimately, the question is not simply why governments fall but how their opponents win.

To save the West, we must look to our civilizational roots and embody them in the advances of the future.
Where the Dutch government looks at a young woman and sees a taxpayer it cannot afford to lose, the Orbán government looks at her and sees a mother it wants to support.
Another beloved British institution has succumbed to the cult of self-loathing.
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 statue is a daily reminder that we are in the midst of a reconquest—in the United States, and, of course, in Europe.
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.
This is no longer just about one country. It is about whether the European Union can tolerate a nation that insists on putting itself first. And whether citizens are still allowed to choose that path.
Because it is the religious Right that has been the most unapologetic defender of classical Christian values, church leaders now find it difficult to articulate those values at all.