by Lisa Bourne A Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Newark is hosting its second annual Mass associated with gay pride events later this month. Our Lady of Grace in Hoboken, New Jersey, along with its merged parish St. Joseph, is advertising its “2nd Annual Pride Mass in Support of Our LGBTQ Brothers and Sisters.” The Mass […]
The Coming Convergence of Islam and Apostate Christianity
If you have ever read Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, by Fr. Seraphim Rose, you will understand the gravity of this article. by Leo Hohmann With astonishing speed and amazing efficiency, the French government declared early Tuesday morning that the fire which had largely consumed the magnificent, 850-year-old Cathedral of Notre Dame was […]
Criminalization of Christianity is on America’s Horizon
by Peter Heck Don’t be shocked when many “Christians” cheer the criminalization of Christianity. The number of supposedly Christian individuals whose moral compasses are calibrated to the spirit of the age rather than the authority of scripture has become astounding. As I read the enraged responses from professing Christians at the news that Vice President Mike […]
Germany Enforces Sharia Blasphemy Laws
Progressives Do Want Religion: Compulsory Progressivism
by Steve Deace So much for progressivism’s obsession with “thou shall not judge.” Good. Because it was always a scam anyway. The plan was always to judge, and to judge harshly. But just as the devil needed to go undercover in the Garden of Eden with his own “did God really say?” deception, progressives needed […]
The Plot to Destroy Orthodox Unity
“We need a split of Orthodoxy and the breakdown of Russia, and Ukraine, where betrayal is the norm of public morality, will help us in this.” Kyiv: By the end of this year, a “Council” will probably be held in Kyiv, at which the fate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be decided: either the […]
California Progressives Launch Another Attack on Free Speech
by David French There is no compromise with people who seek and require your silence. On Sunday evening, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait published a piece asking why more disgruntled Republicans don’t punish their party by switching sides. Chait notes that the “strongest defense against the election of an extreme or unfit leader is for […]
Harvard Declares War on Orthodox Christianity
by Sohrab Ahmari The culture wars heat up, and are not likely to die down. Harvard is now determined to ostracize, censor, and ultimately root out Orthodox Christianity. That’s okay, Christianity has faced oppression and persecution before. We always win. Drive down Massachusetts Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in the tony, hyper-educated city of […]
The Slippery Slope, the Thin Edge of the Wedge, and the Camel’s Nose
by Fr. Lawrence Farley One of the many things I do not understand is why argument from experience is sometimes dismissed out of hand. In the debate about deaconesses, for example, when one argues from past experience that one thing inevitably (or at least most of the time) leads to another so that ordaining deaconesses […]
Public Orthodoxy: Promoting Cultural Marxism and LGBT Blasphemy
by Fr. John Whiteford One could make a career of responding to all of the nonsense that “Public Orthodoxy” spews on a regular basis. Recently, Ashley Purpura has made the unlikely argument that the services of the Church somehow promote gender fluidity, in her [dare I presume her binary gender?] article: “Beyond the Binary: Hymnographic […]