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The United States has been engaged in a culture war for more than a century, though most Americans seem blissfully unaware of the fact. And, indeed, the terrifying truth is that traditional America is not only losing the battle, but will ultimately lose the war, if the sleeping majority fails to awake in time to . . . → Read More: Culture warfare and its baleful consequences 
Sorry to say so, but either the President could do with an intensive course in world history, or he was being deliberately disingenuous when, at the National Prayer Breakfast, he claimed that the Crusades and the Inquisition are somehow the moral equivalent of the Islamic State’s barbarism in Syria and Iraq. . . . → Read More: President Obama is quite wrong about the Crusades  
The first five books of the Old Testament are known to the Jewish people as The Torah. The Church refers to them as the “Books of Moses. Surprisingly, perhaps, few Christians today study them in the depth they deserve. This is a pity, for they are the very foundation of our Faith. It is . . . → Read More: Explore the foundations of the Christian Faith 
The U.S. Administration’s response to the Moslem terrorists’ atrocity in Paris, France, has been as bizarre as the ‘guidelines’ it imposed on official speakers at gatherings marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. On that occasion, the White House instructed speakers to . . . → Read More: Making sense of the slaughter in Paris Every parish has its own character—an ethos or atmosphere which reflects the nature of its members. People who visit various parishes undergo a form of winnowing process. Either they are attracted by the character of the parish or repelled by it. Saint Stephen’s is no exception, of course. Undoubtedly, we are just a tad . . . → Read More: Merry Christmas – and thanks for a vintage year 
Once upon a time (not so very long ago, as a matter of fact) accidents were just that—accidents. Today, it seems, there is no such thing as an accident. There is always a guilty party to whom blame can be assigned and from whom financial compensation can be extracted. Indeed, there are some . . . → Read More: Victimhood vs clouds with silver linings 
A young acquaintance shocked me recently while discussing the horrific onslaught by the Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria. He confessed he had only a vague idea of where the two countries were located and an even hazier notion as to goals of the terrorists’ campaign of mayhem and slaughter. Syria . . . → Read More: The perils of hiding from unfashionable realities 
Tragedy, they say, usually repeats itself as farce—an observation that might well be made about the political correctness that permeates our mainline churches. After all, the vision of well-fed, pompous prelates doing the sort of things required by cutting edge liturgists—liturgical dance immediately springs to mind—is really quite shriekingly funny. And . . . → Read More: Let’s all sing: ‘Sit down, O persons of God’ 
iPhones clearly exercise the most extraordinary fascination upon the American mind. It’s impossible to go anywhere today—restaurants, airports, hospital waiting rooms, ballgames—without encountering hordes of people staring, seemingly witlessly, at tiny rectangular screens. It’s not so different, I suppose, from the New York daily commute s of 30 years ago when like numbers of . . . → Read More: Progress? Ah, yes! I remember it well! Our news media has been replete of late with outrage at the horrific display of Islamic fanaticism in Syria and Iraq—the wholesale slaughter co-religionists considered heretics, and the rape, abduction and enslavement of tens of thousands of women. It is hard to believe that any American—with the exception, perhaps, of our homegrown Moslem fanatics—fails to . . . → Read More: Deafening silence over plight of Iraqi Christians |
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