By Patrick J. Buchanan Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war going on. It is for the soul of America. And traditional Christianity is besieged. In a January visit to the Vatican, American bishops were warned by Benedict XVI that "radical secularism" posed "grave threats" to their Catholic faith. Your religious freedom is being circumscribed, said the pope. The U.S. government may seek to Continue reading...
“Second Period of Islamic Power”
Monday - December 19, 2011 at 11:50 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan For the 30 years since "The McLaughlin Group" began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year's shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards. The first award on the Christmas show is "Biggest Winner." This year, clearly, one of the world's big winner was -- Islam. For this was the year when what Catholic apologist Hilaire Belloc Continue reading...
The Coming Church-State Wars
Tuesday - November 1, 2011 at 1:03 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed. After a nanosecond I replied, "Kick 'em out!" Let them go to Continue reading...
The Death of Moral Community
Friday - July 1, 2011 at 10:16 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "The opponents (of same-sex marriage) have no case other than ignorance and misconception and prejudice." So writes Richard Cohen in his celebratory column about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's role in legalizing gay marriage in New York state. Now, given that no nation in 20 centuries of Christendom legalized homosexual marriage, and, in this century, majorities in all 31 Continue reading...
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