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The Cold Wars We Do Not Think We Are In Are Getting Hotter
Our Ambassador to the U.N. is getting interrupted like the Soviet Union still existed. President Trump has announced a resumption of nuclear weapons testing. The world is heating up. It has been more than thirty years since the United States…
Who Democrats Are, What Democrats Do : The Other McCain
Posted on | October 30, 2025 | No Comments Even if you believed everything else that the Democratic Party supports — Keynesian economics, foreign policy, LGBTQ agenda, whatever — their stance on criminal justice and law enforcement ought to be…
The Brew: Time to Send the Deep State to GITMO
Remember Watergate? Do you remember what it was about? No, seriously — do you remember the specific high crimes and misdemeanors with which President Richard M. Nixon was charged in impeachment articles, just a few years after winning a…
Can Tech Cure Loneliness? – Religion & Liberty Online
Recently, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI is considering allowing more personal—and even erotic—content for adult users, which reignited a broader conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. This might remind you of Her, the 2013…
In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Evening Edition) : The Other McCain
Posted on | October 30, 2025 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOMDirector Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal, Part XXXIV357 Magnum: How Do You Drive an EV Without Electricity?EBL:…
Pope Leo XIV: ‘The Church does not tolerate antisemitism’
Courtney Mares and Victoria Cardiel, Catholic News Agency Thursday, October 30, 2025 Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday strongly condemned antisemitism during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square, marking the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the…
Cardinal Cupich: Traditional Latin Mass just a spectacle
Chicago’s Blase Cupich has asserted that the Traditional Latin Mass was “more of a spectacle rather than the active participation of all the baptized.” In a reflection on the liturgical reforms which came from Sacrosanctum Concilium, one of the…
What does Leo XIV’s education letter say?
In Disegnare nuove mappe di speranza, Pope Leo addresses Catholic education. It begins wth a preamble, which describes the world of education today. Leo says we are living in a time of “rapid changes and disorienting uncertainties.” Students are…
St. John Henry Newman against compromise
Jacob Phillips, First Things Thursday, October 30, 2025 Some look for uncompromising faith that offers a genuine alternative to contemporary society. Newman, by contrast, is often presented as the primary forerunner of the world-affirming and…
The Martyrs of Douai – The Catholic Thing
In June of 1577, an Englishman by the name of Cuthbert Mayne was taken under arrest by the High Sheriff of Cornwall and imprisoned in Launceston Castle to await trial for high treason. Mayne was born in Devon, in southwest England, and had been…