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.
Amid harsh persecution and an internet blackout, Iran’s house-church movement continues to grow as believers preach, serve their communities, and face intensified state crackdowns.
A UK journalist’s just-published book imagines Britain under a Nigel Farage premiership—but despite being billed as a “non-fiction thriller,” it may frighten readers less than the country’s current trajectory.
Enthusiasts of locally produced foods enjoyed in good company to the tune of 15th-century drinking songs cannot indulge in their pastime without the Left suspecting them of singing the Horst-Wessel-Lied between bites of sauerkraut.
Young farmers, quiet resilience, and a protest Ireland chose not to hear.
The president denies Cuba has political prisoners—yet an increasing number of dissidents are being jailed under brutal conditions.
Europe suffers from amnesia: she has forgotten the texts that helped her understand fate, order, transcendence, and herself.
The legendary steps serve as a reminder that in a world consumed by short-term thinking, we’ve lost sight of the kinds of wealth that don’t show up on a balance sheet.
The fool tears down the wall for want of wit to find the gate.
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.
In the clash of wills between the White House and the Vatican, it is already clear that the vast majority of Catholics will rather side with their pope than with the president of the United States.
