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By Mario J. Haas (Editor’s note: This essay is a response to Ugo Stornaiolo’s Cultural Statelessness & the Mirage of Belonging) This recent article gave me a lot of insight, and it was especially interesting to me, because it is… Continue Reading →
The Cloward-Piven strategy, proposed by sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in the 1960s, is a political strategy aimed at overloading the welfare system to the point of collapse. The idea behind this strategy is to create chaos and… Continue Reading →
In a call to spiritual renewal amidst the numerous crises facing the world today, Cardinal Raymond Burke has launched a nine-month novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe. The novena, which will begin on March 12th and end on the Feast… Continue Reading →
In friendship, we find true equality, both as fellow travelers along the way of life, and as unmovable anchors of reason when our loved ones do wrong. That is the meaning of a friend. And that may be the first and foremost form of love we must cultivate for a virtuous life.
The question of whether God exists or not has been a subject of debate for centuries, with different schools of thought offering varying perspectives. However, one of the most significant consequences of the non-existence of God is the absence of… Continue Reading →
For those suffering of culturally statelessness, being Catholic might be their main cultural identity, because it is the one universal thing that can bring together cultures so dissimilar like the ones that compose their overall fragmented background.
Great Jordan Peterson Interview with EWTN’s Colm Flynn. “Saving the planet, which Pope Francis seems to be on about constantly when he should be saving souls. That’s how you save the planet, not worshiping Gaia!”
Just like Leo Tolstoy and Mark Fisher did, writing about our emotions is a hard topic, not because it means introspection, but because it leaves us vulnerable to external interpretations, that more than often come not with kindness but with ill intent.
A Christian, a conservative, and ultimately, a decent human outlook on life and love needs to consider that existence is indeed both a gift and a struggle that we could not reject and from which we cannot back down. Its value is both inherent in its nature and given through its ongoing experience, and love, love is the substance that binds it all together, from its conception to its survival.
In an age where both courtly love and the Casanova archetype seem to be dead, I still believe some girls deserve their fifteen minutes of a fairy tale, even if inconsequential. After all, we never know who we might end up meeting on the tram.
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