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The Mighty Power of Human Resilience
- Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 18, 2025
With all the complications and mandates of 2020, it’s safe to say it was an election unlike any other. Mail-in voting, debates over voter ID, and ballot drop boxes suddenly confronted every voter. Now, the next presidential election quickly approaches, but have we really considered if the 2020 election should be the model going forward?
READ MOREWhen 19-year-old Adel K and his fellow jihadist entered the Eglise St. Etienne in a Normandy town on Tuesday armed with knives, they could be sure of one thing: whatever happened, they would be famous. The mere attempt to kill a priest as he finished celebrating Mass would get them world headlines since they were Muslims and
READ MOREWhen I was growing up, I learned to trust my doctor. My parents never said that explicitly; I could see it in their actions. I was in the hospital many times growing up, sometimes for very serious reasons. I have eight siblings, and I’m one of the elders, so I was there on the numerous
READ MOREMany people, even non-believers, know that “canonizing” somebody means naming them a saint. It’s the (Catholic or Orthodox) Church proclaiming—usually after an elaborate process of investigation requiring evidence of miracles as well as holiness—that their souls are in heaven. But nobody has ever been canonized to hell. The Church does not consider herself authorized to
READ MOREThe message is loud and clear. Your actions have no more significance than those of a cockroach. Furthermore, like a cockroach, you are in no position to make moral choices of your own free will. When you commit some hideous brutality, it is not that you decided to do so. No, on the contrary, external
READ MORE“This above all: To thine own self be true.” – Polonius (From Hamlet) “Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.” – G. K. Chesterton On this very
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