Author: Jerry Salyer

Revolution & Counter-Revolution: A Review of A Primer On the Right
Primer On The Right: The Challenge of the Modern Right and How It Relates to the Contemporary Left Robert E. Salyer Self-Published 103 pages $8.99 Paperback Many Catholics are dismissive of the Left versus Right divide, deeming it a false …

Put Not Your Trust in Princes: A Review of Austin Ruse’s “The Catholic Case For Trump”
The Catholic Case for Trump Author: Austin Ruse Publisher: Regnery 208 Pages $12.99 Kindle; $20.99 Hardcover Some Catholic critics of Donald Trump argue that the president’s Catholic supporters are compromising the Faith. Trump’s stance on border control means he is …

Shall We Forget All the Confederate Catholics?
“We now see movements to remove statues and names given to monuments and schools of southern figures — Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and others,” observed one of the last few real Jesuits a few years before his …

Jacques Maritain: Visionary or Leftist Ideologue?
There is no question that Jacques Maritain has had a profound impact upon Catholic intellectual life. Notre Dame sports its Jacques Maritain Center; then-senator Kennedy quoted Maritain during an address to Assumption College; Pope Paul VI described Maritain as a …

Today’s Catholic ‘Hard Sayings’: Women Should Work Primarily in the Home
“Women,” writes Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum, “are not suited for certain occupations,” for “a woman is by nature fitted for home-work, and it is that which is best adapted at once to preserve her modesty and to promote the …

Catholic Tradition and the Patriotic Question
At first glance, patriotism might seem like an issue of secondary importance, a mere distraction. Our ultimate loyalty is to the Kingdom of God, after all, and we are already pretty busy. Among restoring a desecrated liturgy, salvaging Catholic education, …

Book Review: Jack Kerwick Tackles the Problem of ‘Jesus Now’
Christianity and the World Jack Kerwick Stairway Press 192 pages $7.50 paperback, $3.00 Kindle If the primary function of the Church is to promote diversity and multiculturalism, then the world’s many Catholics are obliged to support post-national actors seeking to …

Defining “The F-Word”
Fascism: The Career of a Concept Paul Gottfried Northern Illinois University Press, 2016 207 pages $45.00 A brief anecdote in the author’s introduction makes clear why tradition-conscious Catholics may find interesting this work by Jewish intellectual Paul Gottfried: As a …