Europe

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…

Discovering the Value of Home

by Carolyn Moynihan November 7, 2012

Italians are, famously, attached to their family, and the European economic crisis affecting their country has given them even more reason to turn to home for support. Recent research shows that a third of adult Italians – and more than…

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The Europeanization of the Democratic Party

by Dr. Paul Kengor October 1, 2012

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The Democratic Party continues to rapidly and firmly secularize.
The most recent display was the battle at the Democratic convention to exclude God from the party’s platform. That was no minor moment that should come and go with…

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The Euro Is a Frankenstein Currency

by Mark W. Hendrickson July 3, 2012

What do Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the architects of the euro currency have in common? Answer: They both created monsters.
The euro is not “money” any more than the monster created by Dr. Frankenstein was a man. Whatever resemblances there…

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Will Europe’s Instability Cripple the U.S. Recovery?

by Alfred A. Lagan May 21, 2012

Economic conditions in the euro zone continue to deteriorate. At least six of the seventeen nations that use the euro are now in recession. Nor is the prognosis very encouraging. Unemployment is increasing throughout the euro zone. The six that…

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