John Horvat II is the Vice President of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property and the author of the recent book Return to Order. Pictured above, Mexican Antonio Vazquez, known as the “Greatest Sorcerer,” puts a spell on U.S. president elect Donald Trump, represented by a picture during a ritual in Mexico City on January 5, 2017. The greatest sorcerer made predictions for the newly started year 2017 and aims to stop Donald Trump’s intentions towards Mexico. (Photo credit: YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images) The religious right has often been looked down upon by many Americans involved …
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Back Row America
Chris Arnade is a freelance writer and photographer. This piece is excerpted from Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade, to be published on June 4 by Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Text and photographs © 2019 by Chris Arnade. I first walked into the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx because I had been told not to. I had been told it was too dangerous and too poor, and that I was too white. I had been told that “nobody goes there for anything but drugs and prostitutes.” The people …
What does the Bible really say about Mary, the Mother of the Messiah?
Paul Senz recently graduated from the University of Portland with his Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry. He lives in Oregon with his family. Dr. Brant Pitre is Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the study of the New Testament and ancient Judaism. The author of several acclaimed books for both popular and academic readers, his latest is Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah (Image Books, 2018). This book details the biblical foundations for …
Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
Dennis Prager (born 1948) is an American syndicated radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. Editor’s note: The following essay by Dennis Prager first appeared in the September 1993 print edition of Crisis Magazine. When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah’s prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later …
How the West Really Lost God
By Gerald J. Russello Gerald J. Russello is a Fellow of the Chesterton Institute at Seton Hall University and editor of The University Bookman. He is also the editor of the 2013 edition of Christopher Dawson’s Religion and Culture from Catholic University of America Press. Q: Thanks for joining us. Tell us the thesis of your new book. A: How the West Really Lost God opens with a review of the conventional arguments for Western secularization and observes that those arguments don’t adequately explain the decline of Christianity in certain parts of the Western world. If that’s correct—if, pace the …
Dawkins’ Unholy Trinity: Incoherency, Hypocrisy and Bigotry
By Scott Ventureyra Scott Ventureyra earned a doctorate in theology from Carleton University/Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada in 2017. He has published in academic journals such as Science et Esprit, The American Journal of Biblical Theology, Studies in Religion and Maritain Studies (the journal of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association). He has also written for magazines such as Crisis and Convivium and newspapers such as The National Post, City Light News, The Ottawa Citizen and The Times Colonist. He is the author of On the Origin of Consciousness: An Exploration through the Lens of the Christian Conception of God …
The Strange Case of Dr. Biden and Mr. Hyde
Fr. George W. Rutler is pastor of St. Michael’s church in New York City. He is the author of many books including Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943 (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press) and Hints of Heaven (Sophia Institute Press). His latest books are He Spoke To Us (Ignatius, 2016); The Stories of Hymns (EWTN Publishing, 2017); and Calm in Chaos (Ignatius, 2018). Pictured above, former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to a crowd at a Democratic National Committee event at Flourish in Atlanta on June 6, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo credit: Dustin …
Researcher Links Abuse Crisis to Influx of Gay Clergy
In November 2018, Christian nonprofit the Ruth Institute, a group dedicated to researching the ruinous effects of the sexual revolution, published a groundbreaking study of the role homosexual clergy have played in precipitating the clerical sex abuse crisis in the United States. Authored by senior research associate Fr. D. Paul Sullins, Ph.D., the report titled “Is Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Related to Homosexual Priests?” revealed a striking correlation between the rise in the number of homosexual priests and the explosion of clerical sex abuse. Analyzing data from the John Jay Report on sex abuse of minors and a Los Angeles Times survey reporting the number of …
Steve Bannon: Laity Must Act on Abuse Crisis
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) – Steve Bannon says he thinks the sex abuse scandals are far from finished for the Catholic Church. In a telephone interview with Edward Pentin on June 4, Bannon commented on the Catholic clerical sex abuse scandals: I don’t even think we’ve even started the process. I think you’ll see a lot more [abuse cases] in Latin America, I think in Cuba, I think in sub-Saharan Africa, and in south Asia, and Europe. I think we’re at the very beginning of addressing this crisis in the Church on the pedophilia crisis. I don’t believe the spin that it’s all …
Buttigieg Says God Made Him Gay: A Retort from South Bend
By Adrian Reimers Adrian Reimers is an adjunct instructor at Holy Cross College. For seventeen years he taught philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on the thought of Karol Wojtyla (St. John Paul II) and is the author of Hell and the Mercy of God (CUA Press, 2017) and co-author (with Miguel Acosta) of Karol Wojtyla’s Personalist Philosophy (CUA Press, 2016). Rebuking our former governor (and current Vice President), our mayor in South Bend tells us that it is his Creator who made him gay. Although he cites neither Scripture nor philosophical argument, Mayor Buttigieg …