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Will the European Court Decide Whether to Recognize Polygamy as a Right?The European Union, in words, boasts of being a bulwark of Western civilization, a guarantor of international peace, a guardian of free enterprise, democracy, stability, and peace among peoples, having created the largest single market in the world and promoting “rights, freedoms, and cooperation.” In reality, as repeated in other analyses, the European Union is undergoing a drastic Sinicization, with all that this entails.Moreover, to confront the steep demographic decline and the growing Islamization of the continent, bureaucrats—especially the more progressive ones, though not only them—must reckon with internal...

The American Revolution was almost contemporaneous with the French one, and politically the two were not unconnected; yet they were profoundly different in character. The American democracy is not founded upon the emancipated man bit. quite the contrary, upon the kingdom of God and the limitation of earthly powers by the sovereignty of God. It is indeed significant when, in contrast to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, American historians can say that the federal constitution was written by men who were conscious of original sin and of the wickedness of the human heart. Earthly wielders of power, and...

PART IV: Children of Babylon or Prodigal Son? Truly, the fulfillment of a pagan one-world religion is nearer to being a reality now more than ever, as Rome continues to trumpet its divergence from orthodoxy to be a watershed for the Church. That such an evisceration of the Catholic faith was the planned outcome ought to be painfully obvious. We have struggled through forty years of the Catholic world turned upside down; but perhaps, like the obstinate Israelites of Moses' day, Catholics of the modern era must endure another forty years in the desert before they repent of their pride....