In the wake of the election of the new French President Emmanuel Macron at the beginning of May, there has been a tweet circulating which has a deep meaning: “France beheaded their king and queen so that they could be ruled by a banker in a suit.” The picture that attends that verbal message (see…
Pope Francis’ most recent comments attempting to separate Islamic religious beliefs from Islamic violence are deeply misleading. They are not just slightly or partially incorrect, but dangerously wrong. They stand in direct contradiction to the Church and her saints’ long history of experience and understanding of the Islamic world. In the context of yet another airplane interview — this…
In a recent article on the Secret of Fatima, Steve Skojec, the founder and editor of OnePeterFive, published, to my knowledge, for the first time in the English language words from Rome’s chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth (d. 2016), about Padre Pio and his knowledge of the Third Secret of Fatima. They come from a…
An article published recently by an Italian geo-strategist and university professor has again sparked questions concerning the reasons for Pope Benedict XVI’s surprising resignation in 2013. Professor Germano Dottori, a professor at the Institute for Strategic Studies at LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome, wrote an article in the the 4/2017 issue of Limes, a geo-strategic journal, which was later…
The Crusades are one of the most misunderstood events in Western and Church history. The very word “crusades” conjures negative images in our modern world of bloodthirsty and greedy European nobles embarked on a conquest of peaceful Muslims. The Crusades are considered by many to be one of the “sins” the Christian Faith has committed…
Recently I’ve been reading The Hobbit to two of my young children. Central to the story is lost treasure: Thorin and his fellow dwarves ask for Bilbo Baggins’ help in reclaiming their trove, which has been captured by the dragon Smaug and hidden deep within the Lonely Mountain. As I read the book, I can’t…
Last week, I received a note from a reader about something totally unexpected. In a blog post here, it is reported: Thanks to the initiative of a Polish MEP, former Sejm Marshal Marek Jurek, there is now a Catholic Mass in the so-called “extraordinary rite” (i.e. the rite that was in common use prior to 1969,…
by John-Henry Westen ROME, May 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke issued a call this morning for the Catholic faithful to “work for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” Cardinal Burke, who is one of the four Cardinals who have asked Pope Francis for a clarification of Amoris Laetitia, made his…
Sometimes, we get so used to war that we don’t remember what peace looks like. Sometimes, we fight so hard for every inch of ground we can’t quite remember home. This is why the question eats at me constantly: how can we find the energy to resist the enemy if we forget what we’re striving for, if we…
Image: Dr. Michael Hesemann with Pope Benedict XVI. Image courtesy of the official website of Dr. Hesemann. After our recent collaboration on the publication of an important 1918 document from the Secret Vatican Archives which reveals Freemasonic plans to destroy monarchies and the Catholic Church, Dr. Michael Hesemann and I had a prolonged conversation via…
Tomorrow, Thursday 18 May, and Friday 19 May, the Rome Life Forum will gather in Rome in order to discuss the current crisis in the Catholic Church. On 25 April, Claire Chretien reported on this gathering for LifeSiteNews, as follows: SPUC [Society for the Protection of the Unborn Children], along with Human Life International, LifeSiteNews,…
