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Bishops Elect Moderate to Lead Pro-Life Committee

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…spoiling for a public fight, many have other, more pragmatic, goals: There are some bishops who would like a “war” with this White House. These are the same bishops who used some highly charged words about President Obama, who repeat GOP talking points about Obama being the most pro-choice president in history, and who slammed the University of Notre Dame for inviting him to give the 2009 commencement address. But, in speaking to bishops at lunch…

Barack’s “My Plan for Iraq” a Missed Opportunity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tan border region. Senator Obama also reiterates what has perhaps been his most cogent strategic sound-bite: that “we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in.” But there is more in this text, and it is high time that a prominent Democrat stated the matter as clearly as he has done. Two sentences near the end of the essay make clear that this would-be President would indeed undo the Bush team’s true desires for Iraq. “…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ise, making Robertson’s theological assessment of the situation on Haiti almo*]}*st bizarre. The scale of the destruction, the hopelessness of the situation, the staggering poverty, the confusing religious face of Haiti… all of these ideas continue to inform a great deal of idle speculation among those of us who have no earthly idea what to do or what to say in the face of the quake, its appalling magnitude, and its somewhat surreal cultural aftermath…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…reign faith; the true enemy is the enemy within: It is Christian Modernism. Make no mistake, the Modern revolutions in technology and weaponry, in politics and diplomacy, have much to answer for. European gunpowder imperialism is one of its chief legacies. But if post-Modernism is aiming at suggesting what is missing in the Modern age, then anti-Modernism is aiming solely at what is wrong with Modernism. This Pope has posed as a post-Modern thinke…

La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

By Joseph Laycock

…f the fascinating episodes covered in your book that will be unfamiliar to most American readers is the so-called “Affair of the Poisons” in 17th century France. Can you briefly explain what this was and whether you think it was a case of actual Satanism? In the late 17th century, dozens of women working on the fringes of Parisian society as fortune tellers, soothsayers and abortionists were accused of engaging in Satanism. King Louis XIV establis…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ction is new, and it has a subtly religious texture quite probably lost on most of us, especially the most aggressively secular heirs to the French Revolution. For the Olympics are deeply and abidingly religious. They always have been. First, then, to the historical facts. The Olympic Games were an essential part of a religious festival sponsored every four years at the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia. These Games lasted for more than a millennium, r…

Bringing the Senate Back to Decency: An Election Day Morning After

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed”; the Boston Tea Partiers did not. Here is Henry Adams again: They [the most vitriolic senators] did permanent and terrible mischief, as Garfield and Blaine, and even McKinley and John Hay were to feel. In other words, such senatorial burlesque gets people killed. We crossed an important line in this election cycle, when a publicly televised election advertisement invited us to watch a West Virginian candidate for the US Senate (Governor Joe Ma…

Clinging to God, Guns, Obama, and Freud

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…choose to do with them: “By your fruits shall ye know them.” And what he was warning was that both issues, religion and guns, are easily exploited by political parties as they speak to the very real uncertainties most in the American electorate feel these days. It is ironic that the reaction to his remarks, rather than the remarks themselves, confirm the central truth of this originally psychological insight….

Vatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…several decades. In the past thirty years, the site has become one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Eastern Europe, attracting an estimated 30 million pilgrims. The Roman Church has never committed itself one way or the other on the authenticity of the apparitions up to now. Yet the authenticity of the site and its sanctity took a significant blow when Father Tomislav Vlasic, the self-appointed spiritual advisor to the six recipients of…

The Surprising Catholic Roots of the War on Xmas

By Patricia Miller

…week his talent for stirring the culture-war pot was on display outside of St. Louis, where he went to ostensibly promote tax cuts. “Trump appeared on stage with twin symbols of his vision of the country’s heritage—a pair of American flags and a row of Christmas trees,” reported the Washington Post. “I told you that we would be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” Trump said as the crowd roared. “Remember, I was the one when I was here the last time,…