The Separation of Church and State: Theocratic at Best; Nihilist and Totalitarian at Worst

by John Rao, D.Phil. Oxon. Given the fact that the human person is a unified being of both spirit as well as flesh and blood, it is utterly...


Faces New and Old

Introducing Our Regular Authors FR. DOMINIQUE BOURMAUD, SSPX, Managing Editor Fr. Bourmaud has spent the past 40 years at various posts...


De Valera and Catholic Ireland

By Fr. Francis Gallagher My only sighting ever of President Eamon De Valera’s distinctive profile was in 1961. He was returning by car from...


A Rebours, En Route, and Very Much on Target

Huysmans and the Apostolate of the Outsiders By John Rao, D.Phil. Oxon. A Rebours is the name of a novel written in 1884 by Joris-Karl Huysmans...


Personal Reflections on a First Trip to Fatima

by Dr. John Rao It is rather ironic that after 45 years of traveling to innumerable places intimately connected to the Catholic Faith and Church...


The Americanist Problem

Two Aspects of the Americanist Problem:
 Braquemart and the Prince von Sunmyra by Dr. John Rao Braquemart and the Prince von Sunmyra are...


The Spirit of 76

by a Benedictine monk In this beautiful country of the United States, “we the people” that compose it are Americans. The word...


From Americanism to the City of God

by Gabriel S. Sanchez Thomas Storck and Brian M. McCall, two towering writers in the field of Catholic social teaching, have both released books...


The Americanist Heresy

Extracts of Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiæ (January 22, 1899) This Apostolic Letter, addressed to Cardinal. Gibbons, was the outcome...


Politics and Cultural Americanism

Buy Their Fruits? by Dr. Andrew Childs As the present volume considers the issues of politics and Americanism, I begin with a definition of...