The news of the moment is that President Obama has expressed unqualified delight at the performance of Pope Francis. If I were Pope Francis, and I learned that Barack Obama has been skipping around the White House, doing cartwheels and continuously shouting “Yippee!” and “Yee-Haa!” in his ebullience over my performance, and only breaking his celebratory [...]
Kevin O’Brien’s St Austin Review post on the enormous influence ubiquitous pornography is having in eradicating any sensitivity to what sex is really for, and thus undermining opposition to homosexual “marriage”, is most insightful and important. Because of the internet, hard-core pornography is not merely readily available, but is almost unavoidable without particularly good internet filters. It subconsciously inculcates [...]
Below is a report of a most perceptive and important address delivered by Francesco D'Agostino, President of the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists, at a conference at the Vatican this week. The reporter is Hilary White, and the report is on LifeSiteNews, as accessed via a link from the invaluable New Oxford Review. ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/futureless-synthetic-family-rapidly-replacing-the-natural-family-in-law-vat LifeSiteNews.com [...]
The below speech on religious freedom by Cardinal George Pell at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney Campus, on 13 August 2013, arrived in my inbox last Saturday from Andrea Calihanna for the National Association of Families. By any international standards it is an exceptionally lucid, illuminating and judicious statement on a critical issue. It is [...]
The New Oxford Review regularly reprints on its site excellent articles it has published in past years. A most perspective article from 1997 is reprinted in today's edition. It is by David C. Stolinsky, who is Jewish; and it is about the importance and positive value of social stigma for moral guidance. It is a theme on [...]
Names can have unintended associations. The story goes that some years ago when a new Nissan car model was planned, a high executive decided that it should have aristocratic associations. He enquired what were typical names for aristocrats in the English-speaking world, and was told “Cuthbert”, “Cecil”, “Cedric”, and so on. He therefore imagined that these [...]
Earlier this year a portrait at Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, which was thought to be of Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and final (and thus luckiest) wife, was identified as actually being of his first Queen, the much-loved Catherine of Aragon, as history calls her. (See the portrait at http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/24/henry-viii-catherine-aragon-portrait.) If [...]
When Bradley Manning decides he's not Chelsea Manning after all, but Arnold Schwarznegger, will we all have to call him Arnold?
Nobody loathes genuine women more than do the feminists – they are the ultimate misogynists. There is indeed a war against women, and against everything wholesome and and natural to do with womanhood, sexuality, family, and morality, and it is being waged by the feminists. This is obvious, and because it is obvious it is appalling [...]
My primary source researches, which have been diverse, have for some time centred mainly on the 1520s and 1530s. Since they largely concern England, and since England in these decades was ruled by Henry VIII, I have seen endless mentions of his marital shenanigans. We all know that Henry was married to “Catherine of Aragon”; that [...]
