The crisis of our time has moved as of now from the cultural and moral field to the psychological, meaning psychology in its etymological sense, which is that of “science of the soul.” If morality establishes the laws of human behavior, psychology investigates the cognitive and affective life of man. Man is a composite of … Read more
Christopher Columbus belongs to the Church, and any affront to him is directed at the Church, which has the duty to defend his memory. “Columbus noster est!” “Christopher Columbus is ours!” These words of Leo XIII, in his encyclical Quarto Abeunte Saeculo, issued July 16, 1892, on the IV Centenary of the discovery of America, … Read more
Italy’s leading Catholic historian is predicting the end of globalization and the death of Pope Francis’ “utopia of globalization, presented as the great road destined to lead to the unification of the human race.” In a lecture shattering the pontiff’s “gospel of globalization,” Prof. Roberto De Mattei says any examination of history has to “begin with God and end … Read more
The first reactions in response to the Instrumentum Laboris for the Amazon Synod were focused on its opening to married priests and the insertion of women into the sacramental orders of the Church. But the Instrumentum Laboris is something more: it’s a manifesto for liberation eco-theology which proposes a pantheist, egalitarian “cosmo-vision” , unacceptable for … Read more
One of the main reasons for the sufferings was the vision of infidelity, not only of the chosen people, but of all those who in future centuries would lead the Church founded by Our Lord on Calvary. Quae utilitas in sanguine meo? ( Ps 29,10) This atrocious question penetrated His heart, and must penetrate ours, … Read more