We must honor the heroes who defeated Hitler without letting their victory harden into a secular myth turning ‘Nazi’ into the catch-all for evil.
When abortion is treated as an unquestionable ‘right,’ even the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life no longer requires its scholars to be pro-life.
The urgent question for Europe is why are Muslims converting to Christianity in places where the faith is banned, persecuted, or heavily restricted—yet in open, tolerant Europe, with welcoming churches on every corner, many grow firmer in Islam and some even become radicalized?
The Left tried to pass off the latest jihadist attack in Barcelona—when an immigrant stabbed a minor in broad daylight invoking the name of Allah—as ‘femicide.’
A radical cost-cutting plan for French public broadcasting is on the table—but unlikely to be implemented.
Saxony-Anhalt’s AfD seeks healthy national pride through patriotic cultural policy. The establishment calls it fascism.
Withholding billions in EU funds was widely seen as economic coercion, deliberately timed to hurt Hungarian voters and weaken Orbán ahead of the election.
‘Decolonial’ thinking provides a moral alibi that allows socialist failures to be presented as the inevitable effects of an omnipresent ‘coloniality’ that cannot be eradicated as long as any ties to the West remain.
When people feel their identity is under threat, they find ways—visible or invisible—to defend it.
The timing of the new recognitions suggests Leo is paying attention to what is happening in Spain—and signalling that neither the anti-Catholic abuses of the past nor those of the present will be ignored.
Leaders are simply better—more effective, more popular at their peaks, more trusted in the moments that matter—precisely when they refuse to pretend they are better than the rest of us.
Romanians are not rejecting Europe. They are rejecting a politics that hides behind Europe—one in which outcomes are perceived as shaped in Brussels rather than decided at home.
