A Political Refugee From The Global Village

"Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and ...

The release of the American hostage is an extremely clever move by Hamas. Will Trump turn on Netanyahu who has tricked him? Miriam Anderson ...

The Houthis seem to have defeated the USA again. Larry Johnson estimates that the Americans spent $1 billion on attacking the Houthis this t...

I felt such great joy this morning when the priest said the words "Preafericitul Parintele nostru Papa Leon". I realised then how ...

In February 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen took part in a panel discussion about the even...

The Romanian presidential election was an enormous surprise for me and all the clever people.  Plenty of waiters and taxi drivers foresaw it...

'Stripping away all the accretions of “defending liberalism” or “promoting democracy” with which American politicians are accustomed to ...

May 4th is the Feast of the English Martyrs, commemorating the 324 English Catholics executed under Protestant rule and later beatified, and...

'Truth must prevail over false piety, especially when a conclave looms. And the cold, hard truth is that in governance no less than on m...

1989 was a turning point for many reasons and not just in Eastern Europe. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, condemned Salman Rush...

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Jona...

The mainstream media is often poor these days. It is found peddling narratives (to skew our vision) over carefully researched fact. Just loo...

"The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine, but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fac...

"That was a tough 12 years, not gonna lie." Fred Simon Francis asked a boy praying with his hands together “Are your hands bound t...

'There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. ...

  Mr. Ashenden resigned as Chaplain to the late Queen and became a Catholic after a Muslim was invited to recite from the Koran that Jesus i...

'Jesus didn’t write a book. He founded a Church. 'The Bible came from the Church, not the other way around. 'To accept Scripture...

Two very admirable things Pope Francis did were to call for peace in Ukraine and Gaza. Saying Russia was not entirely to blame for the Ukrai...

A number of people have praised Pope Francis's smiling face. This surprised me. I remember him scowling a lot. Some people said they dis...

Why is Biden who favours partial birth abortion and gender reassignment at the late Pope's funeral?  Why wasn't he excommunicated, c...