Remember 2021 — and Remember the Lessons of 9/11
COMMENTARY: The somber 20-year anniversary was met this year with another somber development — the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and its return to the Taliban. And it need not have been.
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Christmas 1981 Heralded the Collapse of Communism in Poland
COMMENTARY: Forty years ago, Soviet communists tried to turn out the lights. But like a candle in the White House window, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II and the people of Poland kept a flicker of hope alive.
Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko — Terror of Communists, Target of Vandals, Hero of Catholics Worldwide
For some modern Americans, Blessed Jerzy’s bold resistance to communism is an object of protest.
Remembering the Battle of Lepanto: 450 Years Ago
COMMENTARY: Our world today would look very different if not for Our Lady of Victory’s miracle at Lepanto 450 years ago this October.
Nancy Pelosi’s Faulty Theology: Free Will and Abortion
COMMENTARY: Of course, God has given us a free will — but explicitly not to be used to do evil.
How Do You Remember 9/11?
COMMENTARY: Catechism Section 409 provides clarity on the 20th anniversary of unspeakable evil.
California Cancels the Saint Who Helped Found It
COMMENTARY: The vacuum created by the empty space that used to bear a statue of St. Junípero Serra in Ventura is palpable.
‘Into the Hands of America’: Pope Pius XII’s Blessing
COMMENTARY: The Pope in 1946 warned of the new post-war enemy that survived Nazism and was seeking revolution and disorder: atheistic communism. And the best response to that ideology was what the U.S. represented.
May 13 Connects Fatima Apparitions, John Paul II Shooting
COMMENTARY: The saint was convinced he was saved by the Blessed Mother’s intercession in 1981.
May Day: the Socialist Worker vs. St. Joseph the Worker
COMMENTARY: For the best model for workers, look not to a man named Marx but to a carpenter named Joseph.
