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A New Framework for Freedom

Kurt Hofer May 22, 2022

If a new framework for freedom is to emerge in the West, it must be recognizable. The stories of anchored freedom must be told, and they must be disseminated with the same adamance in mass culture, whenever and wherever possible, as the Boomer myth of freedom.

MEP Hölvényi: “Radicalizing European Left” Now Openly Hostile to Religion

Robert Semonsen May 7, 2022

Rather than adopting the report’s original draft, which underscored the extent of anti-Christian persecution across the globe, the leftist-dominated EP adopted a draft which excised nearly all references to Christianity, characterized religion as a threat to free society, and claimed it’s a primary “driver of conflict worldwide.”

Christopher Hitchens: Disbelief—but Not as We Know It

Jonathon Van Maren March 7, 2022

“Christopher was quite capable of respecting Christians. If you really believed it and were willing to defend the challenges thrown up against it, he respected that and he liked it.”

Nuns Launch Spiritual Attack Against War in Ukraine

Bridget Ryder March 2, 2022

Contemplative religious communities around the world have promised their spiritual solidarity with the war-torn Ukraine.

Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen in Court to Defend Freedom of Speech and Religion

Hélène de Lauzun January 23, 2022

Beyond her personal case, Päivi Räsänen is well aware that her struggle is much broader: “It is my honor to defend freedom of speech and religion.”

Flat Earthers? But the Earth Has Never Been Flat

Hélène de Lauzun January 14, 2022

The deep-rooted conviction that men have lived for centuries under the obscurantist illusion that the Earth was flat is simply an invention of modernity.

Unbelief: The Root of Totalitarian Trends in Liberal Democracy?

Todd Huizinga December 14, 2021

What lies at the root of the totalitarianism that seems to be asserting itself in free societies in today’s West? The answer to this question reveals a fascinating affinity between Ryszard Legutko, a 21st century Polish Catholic philosopher and the 19-century Dutch Calvinist historian and statesman Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer.

Coming into Port: The Conversion of Michael Nazir-Ali

Fr. Benedict Kiely October 14, 2021

The conversion of Michael Nazir-Ali, at this point in the life both of the established Church of England, the Catholic Church in England, and the wider Catholic Church, is plausibly the most significant conversion since the now St. John Henry Newman knelt at the feet of Bl. Dominic Barberi in Littlemore, Oxford, in October 1845, and asked for reception into the Catholic Church.

Orbán’s Gift of Chutzpah

Fr. Benedict Kiely September 22, 2021

When Pope Francis visited Hungary recently, he couldn’t leave fast enough. But the Hungarian Prime Minister used the occasion to remind the Pontiff that the defense of national borders is neither unprecedented nor “immature.”

EU Court Approves Headscarf Bans

Gellért Rajcsányi July 19, 2021

Two German firms were fine to ban Muslim women from wearing headscarves, the EU court has said. “A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical, or religious beliefs in the workplace may be justified by the employer’s need to present a neutral image towards customers or to prevent social disputes,” the […]

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A New Framework for Freedom

MEP Hölvényi: “Radicalizing European Left” Now Openly Hostile to Religion

Christopher Hitchens: Disbelief—but Not as We Know It

Nuns Launch Spiritual Attack Against War in Ukraine

Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen in Court to Defend Freedom of Speech and Religion

Flat Earthers? But the Earth Has Never Been Flat

Unbelief: The Root of Totalitarian Trends in Liberal Democracy?

Coming into Port: The Conversion of Michael Nazir-Ali

Orbán’s Gift of Chutzpah

EU Court Approves Headscarf Bans

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