Professor Roberto de Mattei (tip to Real Clear Religion): It does not seem excessive to affirm that the participatio actuosa of the community appears to be the ultimate criterion of the liturgical reform from the perspective of a radical secularization of the liturgy. Such a secularization consists of the extinction of the Sacrifice, the sacred … Continue reading
From a commencement speech made by Dr Leon Kass at St John’s College, in Annapolis, Maryland. Full speech at MercatorNet.com. The greatest moral challenges headed our way do not in fact come from hate-filled fanatics threatening death and destruction. They come rather from well meaning scientists and technologists offering life, pleasure, and enhancement. They are … Continue reading
Excerpts from a talk given May 8, 2006 by James Bowman at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.: Nowadays, hardly anyone even knows what honor means, or what it once meant. Let me pause, then, to explain what I think it means. In a few words, it’s the good opinion of the people who matter … Continue reading
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor delivered the Thirtieth Thomas Corbishley Memorial Lecture on “The Kingdom of God and this World: the Church in Public Life” on March 28. An extract: ‘The secular state, which we now risk adopting in Britain, seeks a politics entirely independent of religion, in which religious principles have nothing to say in the … Continue reading
Video clip of talks given by Robert Spencer, Melanie Phillips and Douglas Murray on the topic of Jihad in Europe (with thanks to God Help Britain): Jihad in Europe
Don Feder confronts the jihad. I am not saying that all Muslims are terrorists. I am saying that almost all terrorists are Muslims – the mother of all no-brainers – and that Islam is a faith that is, shall we say, terrorism-friendly. I challenge you to name another faith in which your entry into Heaven … Continue reading
From a speech by Serge Trifkovic: A new strategy is needed to give America an edge in this war. It can never be “won” in the sense of eliminating the phenomenon of terrorism altogether, but it can be successfully pursued to the point where the threat to the homeland comes to as near zero as … Continue reading
