From Yalta to Moscow: 1945–2025
The spectre of the Yalta conference hovers over Europe while international observers consider the possibility of an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine and the conditions of a…
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The wheat and the cockle: sermon on the twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
“Suffer both to grow until the harvest …” In the missal, it is always worth noticing, the introductions with which a gospel begins. Often it will be, “Jesus said to his…
READ MOREPius XII, Sister Pascalina and Cardinal Tien Ken-sin
On 8 December, the Catholic Church will have 21 new cardinals. The Sacred College will therefore number 256 members, 141 of them with the right to vote in the next…
READ MOREThe war on the family waged by Flores d’Arcais and MicroMega
Is there really a carefully planned war against the family, as we have written in the article, “The wars that are bloodying the world”? For those who have doubts in…
READ MOREFailed fashions vs the future of the family
Winkle-picker shoes, miniskirts or, for that matter, frock coats and farthingales no longer brighten our daily lives. Fashions come and go, but some things, we like to think, last forever;…
READ MOREEngland’s growing Orwellian nightmare
by Liam Gibson According to the old joke, in Heaven the cooks are Italian, the mechanics German and the police are English. In Hell, however, the mechanics are Italian, the…
READ MOREThe conditions of peace
“[W]hat king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with…
READ MOREEurope after the war
As the reality of the Second World War slowly recedes from living memory, its symbolic value continues to expand. However, it is the surrender of the German armed forces on…
READ MOREThe errors of Russia
The role of the Russian giant on the geopolitical stage is not one that could ever be ignored. But since the war with Ukraine broke out in February 2022, even…
READ MOREThe judgement of God in history
The following article is adapted from a talk given by Professor de Mattei on 21 May 2020 at the online Rome Life Forum. The theme of judgement and divine retribution…
READ MOREIreland’s rebellion against God
In his 2015 book Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning, Timothy Snyder describes how, on 12 March 1938, the Jews of Vienna were made to scrub the streets…
READ MOREThe west at war
Allah Akbar! — “Allah is great!” This cry has resounded all over the world through the videos that documented the violence of Islamic militants against women, children and young people…
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