
The Human Person is Endangered
We haven’t diagnosed ‘woke’ properly. We should recognise it for what it is: an expression of a very deep and noble religious need, a need that has been neglected and mistreated in contemporary British society.

We haven’t diagnosed ‘woke’ properly. We should recognise it for what it is: an expression of a very deep and noble religious need, a need that has been neglected and mistreated in contemporary British society.

Many intellectuals express deep admiration for Islam. Yet, they would be horrified if Muslim customs were imposed on them.

The cartoons are featured in a special edition marking the anniversary of the deadly Islamist attack the publisher’s Paris office suffered on January 7th, 2015.

Brinkmann’s book is a respectful, thoughtful tome seeking to question faith honestly. He freely admits that he is simultaneously sceptical on issues of faith and belief and deeply fascinated by religion.

Any discussion of Christianity as part of a conservative resistance to revolutionary changes needs to make a sober assessment of the religious situation in Europe—without wincing at uncomfortable truths.

There are inordinately excitable Catholics who believe that only a Catholic sovereign is owed their loyalty and devotion. I remind them of the commandment of St. Peter: “Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the Emperor.”

Bishop Schneider questioned the pope’s attendance at a multi-faith event, saying it would undermine the status of the Catholic Church by presenting it in a “supermarket of religions.”

In the arena of the culture war, ideas become political brands, stitched into the terrible body of the news cycle, until they share in that sickly bloodstream. Instead of building civic participation, they get their oxygen from media attention.

The Swedish government is aiming to put a blanket ban in place where there will be no new schools of any faith. This restriction is reminiscent of the educational oppression that Christians face in Cuba, Libya, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

The Lady of Heaven proved an affront to all branches of Islam for its showing of the prophet Muhammed—within the Islamic faith, any depiction of its founder is expressly forbidden.