Politics

July 22, 2022

Our Recurring Dreams of Utopia, by David Carlin

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - It was in the 18th century that the idea emerged that we humans can create something like a heaven on earth – an ideal society, a utopia. The great St. Thomas More wrote a Utopia, but that book demonstrates the unintended consequences – not to say human disasters – such schemes inevitably produce. The development of this utopian dream was greatly assisted by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ....

July 22, 2022

A “Paradigm Shift”? Vatican-Approved Journal Suggests Pope Francis Might Soon Contradict Church’s Birth Control Ban, by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - On July 2, Father Jorge José Ferrer, S.J. published an article in Jesuit-run publication La Civilta Cattolica entitled “Re-reading the theological ethics of life.” La Civilta Cattolica is notable for having its content reviewed by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State before publishing... The article summarized and promoted the Pontifical Academy for Life’s (PAV) new book which proposes both contraception and artificial insemination as morally acceptable, and which was published by the Vatican’s publishing house Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

July 22, 2022

The Left’s Trans Agenda Is All About Erasing The Past To Control The Future

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist - We should have guessed that the same progressives who want to wipe the Founding Fathers’ legacy off the face of the planet would also want you to believe that skeletons from ancient times would be miffed about being “misgendered” by archaeologists and anthropologists... The left’s war on the past shows their ferocious desire to control the future. By normalizing sexual chaos in the now and using that to contextualize the past, transgenderism activists are chipping away at the foundations of humanity.

July 22, 2022

As Questions Mount About Corruption In Ukraine, The Neocon Narrative Is Unraveling, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - Americans who even casually followed the news in the fall of 2020 probably know that Ukraine was infamously corrupt long before the United States sent the country $54 billion in aid after the Russian invasion in February. They might not know much else about Ukraine, but they know it’s the kind of place where just being the son of the vice president of the United States can get you an $83,000 monthly paycheck just for sitting on the board of an energy company.