Catholic writer Priscilla Smith McCaffrey has published a new novella with Sophia Institute Press, Christmas Blossoms, where she tells the story of an aging Catholic Chinese artist who makes Christmas ornaments. In a tale for the whole family and all ages, she weaves together insights on Catholic faith and the often murderous history of Communist China’s dictatorship. McCaffrey […]
New Book Exposes Disordered LGBT Identities
There exists “only one sex act; it is the marital act. Any other use of our sexual faculties is a disorder and an abuse of those faculties; but it is not sex,” emphasizes Catholic theology professor John M. Haas in the forward for a new book. Hereby Catholic ex-gay leader Andrew Comiskey insightfully justifies the […]
All in the Progressive Zogby Family
“Way to go Mare!!” replied international relations analyst JC Finley to a July 12 tweet from the leftist, Israel-hating Democratic National Committee veteran James Zogby about his daughter. While Zogby senior has long railed against “Islamophobia” and offered strident apologetics for the Palestinian jihad against Israel, Mare Zogby’s lesbianism raises intriguing questions about the […]
A Conservative Life is a Happy Life in New Book
Franciscan University professor of criminal justice Charles Nemeth has published with Sophia Institute Press a new book, Finding Happiness in a Complex World: Rules from Aristotle and Aquinas. Nemeth draws from the ancient Greek philosopher and the thirteenth-century Italian Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church important lessons concerning the nature of human happiness and its ultimate source in […]
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part Four)
Mauree Turner (personal pronouns of “They/Them/Theirs”) is a “Queer, Non-binary, Okie Muslim” elected to Oklahoma’s congress in 2020, the “first non-binary person elected to a state level position in US history.” A former intern in 2017 for the Oklahoma chapter of the Hamas front group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Turner illustrates the previously discussed […]
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part Three)
“…with actual Muslim scholars cowed into silence, the academy yields a crop of ‘progressive’ Muslim profs who teach a deconstructed Islam for the world’s urban progressive elite,” Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown has tweeted. The December 5, 2020, Twitter thread from this American convert to Islam who has become a leading apologist for all […]
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part Two)
“This is an abomination,” tweeted on December 17, 2020, from a since deleted Twitter account, Ismail Royer in response to a “heartwarming gay rom-com” movie, Breaking Fast, for the Muslim Ramadan fast period. This condemnation from a Muslim intellectual formerly convicted on federal terrorism charges demonstrates how a previously discussed conflict between Islamic doctrines and […]
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part One)
“Standing against the LGBT and other perversions is a form of jihad,” tweeted one Philippine Muslima identified as Umm Yusra on June 8, 2019, while citing the leading Muslim Malay cleric Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri. These and other Muslim social media postings from recent years make all too clear why Muslim parents in Dearborn, Michigan, have […]
New book explores Christian-Muslim differences over the understanding of Jesus’ mother
Catholic author and Crisis Magazine Editor-in-Chief Eric Sammons has published along with his wife Suzan a new book with Sophia Institute Press, The Jesse Tree: An Advent Devotion. In it, the Sammons explore various Christological passages in both the Old and the New Testaments as well as their relationship to the seven sacraments. The resulting work is an insightful read for […]
America’s Troubled Middle Eastern Ivory Towers
“Since the earliest days of Americans’ engagement with the Middle East, U.S. officials have looked to Americans associated with the region’s universities to advance U.S. interests,” writes commentator and political veteran Pratik Chougule. His recent, intriguing book, American Universities in the Middle Fast and U.S. Foreign Policy: Intersections with American Interests, details how such policies […]