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The results of the recent election confirm that Italy is a basically conservative country, its roots on the Right, notwithstanding the repeated attempts of the Left to seize control of the government by overstepping the outcomes at the ballot box. The sole winner was the leader of the center-right coalition, Giorgia Meloni, and the main loser was the leader of the leftist bloc, Enrico Letta. The victory of the Center-Right was of historic proportions, with 235 congressmen out of 400 and at least 112 senators…

There exists a relationship between grace and nature analogous to the one between faith and reason. An imbalance arises when there is faith without reason or grace without nature, and vice versa, but perfect balance does not consist in putting these realities on the same level; on the contrary, it consists in placing them in their legitimate order, subordinating nature to that grace of which it is the precondition, just as the precondition of faith is reason, which is however subject to faith. This helps…

Six months ago, at dawn on February 24 2022, Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation”in eastern Ukraine. A few hours later all of Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv, was hit by air and missile attacks as Russian ground forces crossed the borders. Europe found itself at war. The Russian-Ukrainian war, furthering a conflict that began in 2014, was not the blitzkrieg Putin had imagined. The president of the Soviet Federation underestimated the Ukrainians’ determination to fight, starting with President Zelensky, who has shown himself…

Faithful to the mandate of her divine Master to “go into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mk 16:15), the Catholic Church, since her foundation, has carried out a great missionary work, through which she has brought to the world, not only the faith, but civilisation — sanctifying places, peoples, institutions and customs. Thanks to this work, the Church has also civilised the peoples of the two Americas, immersed in paganism and barbarism. In Canada, the first Jesuit mission among the Iroquois…

The decision with which the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, which established a constitutional right to abortion, has a historical significance that transcends the borders of the United States. The alleged right to abortion is an ideological banner of progressivism, as demonstrated not only by the violent protests staged in many American states, but also by the anger of the leaders of the international left, such as Italian Democratic Party secretary Enrico Letta, who says the decision of the…

A concise and profound manual of spiritual life, without rhetoric and without compromise: an antidote to modern, nebulous and sentimental pseudo-spirituality. This is Lived Christianity, the magnificent text by Dom François de Sales Pollien, just published by Calx Mariae Publishing in the first English edition (London: 2022). Joseph Pollien was born on 1 August 1853 in Chèvenoz, near Annecy, Haute-Savoie (France), into a deeply Christian family. He was ordained in 1877 and on 4 October 1884 entered the Grande Chartreuse in Grenoble as a postulant,…