Rod Dreher
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Refugees from tyranny agree: Authoritarian threat in America now is from the left
Left-wing hysterics with major media platforms have for years been shrieking that President Trump is about to install a fascist dictatorship any minute. Meanwhile, unheard immigrants from the Soviet bloc...
IT ISN'T WHAT THEY SAY - IT'S WHAT THEY DO
BEFORE setting out for Rome last week, several American cardinals telegraphed through the media that Catholics back home shouldn't set their hopes high for the papal summit's outcome. That may...
CARDINAL'S LETTER: COLD COMFORT
THE Archdiocese of New York is hoping that Edward Cardinal Egan's strongly worded letter of this past weekend will renew the laity's confidence in local Church authorities on the question...
EGAN'S DUTY TO TELL ALL
EDWARD Cardinal Egan's motto is "In the Holiness of Truth." Fine words, but alas, only words. Bombshell revelations in Sunday's Hartford Courant, however, make a strong case that when it...
SYMPHONY IN STONE
NECESSITY, they say, is the mother of invention. Ice was the mother of the Brooklyn Bridge. The brutal winter of 1867 froze the East River solid, stopping ferry service between...
BISHOP EMBRACES MIGRANTS IN MASS
On the feast day of a Catholic patron saint of immigrants, Brooklyn Bishop Thomas V. Daily offered Mass yesterday in memory of the 265 victims of the American Airlines crash...
LET DOUBTERS COME HERE TO BEAR WITNESS
DURING the ground zero memorial service yesterday, a worker on the other side of the vast site sprayed water on the hole where seven fires still burn. A cloud of...
I HELD MY NOSE IN DISGUST AS I VOTED FOR . . .
I'VE changed my mind five times in the last two days about whom to vote for, depending on whom I've talked to. By now, I'm tempted not to bother, taking...
REOPENED TRINITY CHURCH HELPS FOLKS KEEP THE FAITH
THERE was a time in the early history of this city when the steeple of Trinity Church, which rests on Broadway at the head of Wall Street, was the tallest...
COLLEGE IN HOLY WAR AS PATRIOT IS BOOTED
DID A conservative Catholic college kick out an undergraduate for publicly defending America against far-right campus extremists in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks? Or is he a chronic...
DOCS: 'WTC SYNDROME' AFFLICTING THOUSANDS
Had difficulty breathing since Sept. 11? You are not alone. Emergency workers and others caught in the choking dust cloud resulting from the collapse of the World Trade Center are...
EX-PAL FED UP WITH 'SHAKEDOWN' JESSE
IT'S not news that somebody else is accusing the Rev. Jesse Jackson of running a race-based shakedown operation under the guise of civil-rights activism. What is news is who's saying...
'ROME-ING' EGAN SHAKING FAITHFUL
EDWARD Cardinal Egan made an unscheduled return from Rome on Tuesday, leaving the month-long synod early amid mounting anger from his New York flock, many of whom resent the cardinal's...
2 BIBLES TURN UP AMID DEBRIS OF TRADE CENTER
ACRID, smoky and biting, the smell of ground zero is like nothing else. So when the two broad-shouldered, dusty men showed up at The Post on Friday, people knew where...
BASEBALL IS AN AFTERTHOUGHT THESE DAYS
THE Yankee playoff game is on at the Midtown firehouse that's home to Engine Co. 1 and Ladder Co. 24 - but none of the Bravest are all that interested....
PASSAGE OF TIME SIMPLY CANNOT EASE THE PAIN
HAS it been only a month? It doesn't seem so to FDNY Lt. Michael Vindigni, who serves on the department's ceremonial squad. He's been going to two funerals a day...
THESE PATHETIC, LYING LOSERS ARE A SICK JOKE
IT was hard to pick out a favorite moment in the loony left's cop-bashing press conference yesterday - until the deranged Juanita Young opened her mouth. Young is the mother...
DISNEY DREAM LIVES FOR BIG-HEARTED BROTHERS
THE Mackay brothers are going to Disney World after all - thanks to the "Live with Regis and Kelly" show. On Sept. 30, The Post brought you the story of...
GROUND ZERO'S BLESSED CROSS - PRIEST CONSECRATES SIGN OF FAITH AMID THE HORROR
Ground-zero construction worker Frank Silecchia saw his personal dream come true yesterday at the ruins of the World Trade Center - one of the large steel crosses he discovered in...
THE YOUNG AND THE GUTLESS
OUR enemies know what they believe. They're willing to kill for it. And, more importantly, they're willing to die for it. Are the young men and women who may be...