This Holy Week occurs amid an intensifying battle between the cultures of Life and Death

Mar 27, 2024 by

By Philip Campbell, Catholic Herald. During his liturgical reflection for the Monday of this Holy Week, Dom Guéranger meditates: “This city [Jerusalem] is zealous for the exteriors of divine worship; but her heart is hard and obstinate,...

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Wake up to the revolution

Mar 22, 2024 by

by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand: Decay. The West’s preoccupation with material wealth and economic growth is a sign of its moral decadence and spiritual poverty. The recent history of the West is a tale of moral decline, in...

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Why Is Haiti Uniquely Miserable?

Mar 15, 2024 by

By Rod Dreher, European Conservative. Back in 2018, President Donald Trump referred to Haiti as a “s**thole,” and was roundly denounced for being a racist. While watching a clip of a “cannibal gang” member eating a piece of roasted human...

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I know why Britain is so miserable – we’re not allowed to be proud of our country

Mar 14, 2024 by

by Allison Pearson, Telegraph: “For the first time I feel somehow That it isn’t going to last… And that will be England gone,  The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, The guildhalls, the carved choirs. There’ll be books; it will linger on In...

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Nihilism — in Nazi Germany and today

Mar 9, 2024 by

By Carl Trueman, First Things.  (image credit: Wikimedia Commons) Twice in the last ten days my dear friend and colleague Fran Maier has drawn attention to the importance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for the church in America today. At...

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“Our culture of selfism is producing more narcissism and fragility”

Mar 6, 2024 by

By Joel Forster, Evangelical Focus. “We need a realistic, grounded sense of self that is not pre-occupied with maintaining its own importance, but serving a purpose bigger than ‘me’”, says Psychiatrist Glynn Harrison, author of ‘The Big...

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