The Banners of Lepanto

The Banners of Lepanto: A British explorer ship that sank in the Arctic in the 1840s while searching for the Northwest Passage, was located this year on September 3, remarkably intact under the ice. The HMS Terror was one of the ships that attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814. Some of the “bombs bursting in air” may have …

How the 1571 Battle of Lepanto saved Europe

How the 1571 Battle of Lepanto saved Europe: For those who know little history, today's battle with the Islamic State in the Middle East may seem new and unprecedented. It is not.  In a.d.&n...

the Janissary Corps are a well-known military institution, but they originally began as a group of former Christians, slaves to the Ottoman Sultan. From humble beginnings, Janissaries were a unique type of hero in the Ottoman Empire because of their Christian roots.

https://mediakron.bc.edu/ottomans/objects/janissary-hat-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary http://www.theottomans.org/english/campaigns_army/index_3.asp

Public Arguments

Public Arguments: Priests! Forty-seven years ago, at the tail end of my thirteenth year, my father reluctantly took me to the train in Pittsburgh that would carry me out to South Bend, Indiana, to Holy Cross Seminary. He thought I was too young to enter the seminary even if I did want to become a priest—which he …

Fool’s Paradise: The Appeal of Jihad

Fool’s Paradise: The Appeal of Jihad: “As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards and high-bosomed maidens for companions.”  ∼ Koran 78: 31-33 According to the principle known as Occam’s razor, the best explanation of an event is usually the one that is simplest. Yet Western analysts persist in using the most convoluted hypotheses to …

September, 1683: Victory in Vienna

September, 1683: Victory in Vienna: As Christian Europe tore at her own throat during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the Ottoman Turks missed a golden opportunity to strike their centuries-old enemy.  Why?  They were themselves absorbed with war in Persia.  Moreover, they were beset by a turbulent period of harem intrigue and governed—or not—by a string of ineffectual and self-indulgent …

The Islamicization of Public Education Continues Apace

The Islamicization of Public Education Continues Apace: On October 15, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition presented by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) to hear Wood v. Arnold, a case brought by Caleigh Wood, a Christian student in the 11th grade at La Plata High School in Maryland. Wood refused to take part in a school exercise she felt would …

Erdoğan's Ottoman Fantasies

Erdoğan's Ottoman Fantasies: British journalist Robert Fisk once stated, “The story of the Armenian genocide is one of almost unrelieved horror at the hands of Turkish soldiers and policemen who enthusiastically carried out their government’s orders to exterminate a race of Christian people in the Middle East.” The extermination of one and a half million Armenian Christians during …

Lepanto, 1571: The Battle that Saved Europe

Lepanto, 1571: The Battle that Saved Europe: The clash of civilizations is as old as history, and equally as old is the blindness of those who wish such clashes away; but they are the hinges, the turning points of history. In the latter half of the 16th century, Muslim war drums sounded and the mufti of the Ottoman sultan proclaimed jihad, but …

The Culture War is Lost - Now What?

The Culture War is Lost - Now What?: By Michael Warren Davis - The culture war may be lost, but the war for our country’s soul has only just begun.

Standing with Vlad the Impaler

Standing with Vlad the Impaler: The story of Vlad the Impaler - the inspiration for 'Dracula' - can be an unlikely model for standing against evil.

Islam's Thousand Year War on Christendom

Islam's Thousand Year War on Christendom: At a time when Catholic youth are taught that Islam means peace, pilgrimage and prayer, and Catholic adults are under the impression that Muslims are a misunderstood minority who only want to share their values and their baba ghanoush, it’s refreshing to occasionally make contact with reality. I mean “refreshing” here in the sense that …

The Banners of Lepanto

The Banners of Lepanto: A British explorer ship that sank in the Arctic in the 1840s while searching for the Northwest Passage, was located this year on September 3, remarkably intact under the ice. The HMS Terror was one of the ships that attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814. Some of the “bombs bursting in air” may have …

What Are Jinn: The Arab Spirits Who Can Eat, Sleep, Have Sex, and Die

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn What Are Jinn: The Arab Spirits Who Can Eat, Sleep, Have Sex, and Die https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k7ekv/what-are-jinn-arab-spirits