Politics

December 8, 2023

The Jesuit Roots of Nicaragua’s War on the Church, by Robert W. Shaffern

By Robert W. Shaffern, The Catholic Thing - To their eternal shame, prominent figures in the Nicaraguan Catholic Church contributed in no small measure to (Sandinista President Daniel Ortega's) catastrophe, the seeds of which have been germinating since the conclusion in 1979 of the bloody and brutal civil war that had plagued that country for a decade. In that year, the Bolshevik Sandinistas drove the last of the Somoza dynasty of dictators from the country. Many Catholic clergy supported the Sandinistas, especially members of the Jesuit order. ...

December 7, 2023

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Two Bishops Raise Concerns About Vatican Synod

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - Like many Catholic leaders, I have been paying close attention to the ongoing Synod on Synodality at the Vatican... And like many Catholic leaders, I have done so with considerable and growing trepidation... Thus, it was with interest that I recently read statements by two bishops who participated in the recent meetings—Bishop Robert Barron and Archbishop Anthony Fisher—in which the bishops both thoughtfully expressed a number of overlapping concerns about how the Synod is unfolding.

December 7, 2023

The FBI Still Thinks Pro-Life Catholics are Domestic Terrorists, by Tim Graham

By Tim Graham, LifeNews - After 9/11, leftist journalists passionately exposed the New York City Police Department doing surveillance of mosques to try to prevent violent Muslim extremism. By contrast, they largely yawned when it was leaked in February that the FBI’s office in Richmond, Virginia, discussed surveilling local Catholic churches to root out potential violent extremism from the “radical Catholics.”

December 7, 2023

State Of Texas Joins The Federalist, Daily Wire In Suing The Federal Censorship-Industrial Complex, by Joy Pullmann

By Joy Pullmann, Executive Editor, The Federalist - The U.S. State Department is violating the U.S. Constitution by funding technology to silence Americans who question government claims, says a lawsuit filed Tuesday by The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and the state of Texas... The three are suing to stop “one of the most audacious, manipulative, secretive, and gravest abuses of power and infringements of First Amendment rights by the federal government in American history,” says the lawsuit. It exposes federal censorship activities even beyond the dramatic discoveries in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case .....