In Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics, Linus is by far the most outstanding character. The most intelligent(to the point of pathological precociousness), most independent-minded, most thoughtful, most questioning, most imaginative, most insightful, most perceptive, most analytical, and so on. Yet, he is also the most irrational and absurd character. He has an obsessive dependence on his... Read More

THINGS WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T HAVE BECAUSE IT'S RACIST Once, there was the Reformation. Now, there is the Deformation. Reformation was violent and bloody but about God and virtue. The Deformation, in contrast, is vile and rotten to the core. It's about idolatry of the Negro, the most savage race, because he be good at basketball,... Read More

As intelligent as dogs are in the animal kingdom, the limits of their smarts are evident in their fixation on objects than on the will of the master. So eager to chase after things, the dog doesn't wonder why the master tosses objects into the distance for it to retrieve, no more than greyhounds at... Read More

On October 3, 1998, Pope John Paul II beatified Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac at the national shrine of Marija Bistrica in front of 500,000 Croats.1 The next step was canonization. On February 10, 2014, the memorial of Blessed Stepinac, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, announced that the canonization... Read More

Will Hillary Clinton clean out the nest of anti-Catholic bigots in her inner circle? Or is anti-Catholicism acceptable in her crowd? In a 2011 email on which Clinton campaign chief John Podesta was copied, John Halpin, a fellow at the Center for American Progress that Podesta founded, trashed Rupert Murdoch for raising his kids in... Read More

During the 1950s, the twin pillars of worldwide anti-communism were Dwight Eisenhower's America and the Roman Catholic Church of Pope Pius XII. During the 1980s, the last decade of the Cold War, Ronald Reagan and the Polish pope, John Paul II, were the pillars of resistance. When Pope Francis arrives in Washington on Tuesday afternoon,... Read More

In this space last week I challenged the sensational tabloid story of the moment: the idea that “wicked witch� nuns at an orphanage in Ireland had “dumped� nearly eight hundred babies’ bodies in a cesspit. The story had caused global outrage – but, as I pointed out, it not only did not ring true but... Read More