...continued from Rome and Fascism : Introduction On 11 February 1929, Pietro Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, and Benito Mussolini, Duce of Fascism and Head of the Italian Government, signed the Treaties of the Lateran, bringing......

For quite some time I've been intending to write a series about the the Roman Catholic Church's relationship to 20th Century European Fascism. Not knowing quite where to begin such a massive undertaking, I've been dragging my heels. But now,......

On 5 February 2009, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following statement: "This morning, Thursday, February 5, 2009, an Israel Navy force intercepted, boarded, and took control of the cargo boat named Tali which was bearing the flag......

A commentor on The Cry of Peace...Peace..., Romanoz, raised an important question - why did the Pope ban the use of the name of the Hebrew God, YHVH, from its liturgy? Aside from deliberately blurring the distinction between Jesus and......

As a child, my reading material was never censored and I eagerly devoured just about anything I could lay my hands on, including matter that would be labelled today as unsuitable for youngsters. In those days, the newspapers were full......

I had thought that by now I was fairly immune to the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church's Mariolatry but I have to confess that the image above actually shocked me! The image is called "The Monstrance of Our Lady......

Birds of a Feather Al-Jazeera reported here* that Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas political leader, labelled Israel's offensive on Gaza a real "holocaust." Reuters reported here that Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace, described......

...continued from The King of Jerusalem : Part II In his book, A MORAL RECKONING: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair,* Daniel Goldhagen provides us with a concise yet comprehensive picture......

...continued from The King of Jerusalem : Part I Couched in pious language though it may be, the Christmas message of Archbishop Fouad Twal, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, once again makes plain the Holy See's 'Grand Plan' for Israel.......

In the Holy See and the Holy Places, I stated that: "The first crusade to capture the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II, may seem like ancient history......