Everybody knows about the economic woes of Europe. In the media you cannot get away from it. What we seldom hear about is a problem that puts debt crises and austerity riots in the shade: the region’s demographic suicide. Europeans,…
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When Cardinal Bergoglio, a.k.a., Pope Francis, stepped onto that balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square, my reaction was probably like many Catholics: a sense of excitement and mystery.
My ignorance of his background rushed forth in my…
“The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith,” wrote Hilaire Belloc after that bloodbath we call World War I. “Either Europe will return to the Faith or she will perish.”
By 1938, Belloc concluded Christian Europe was done:
“The…
Dudley Moore parodying Beethoven piano sonato and Schuber lieder (‘Die Flabberghast’) I saw the first video below on Damien Thompson’s blog on The Daily Telegraph website. It is Dudley Moore playing his own composition, a parody of a Beethoven piano…
