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Churchill's warning about the Russian threat still resonates, 80 years later

Eastern European states cannot afford to ignore the danger at their doorsteps

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Christopher McMullanAugust 9, 2026National Post, Politics
How Slovakia's left has come to resemble the MAGA right

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico favours leftist economics, reduced immigration, social conservatism and Putin. Sound familiar?

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Christopher McMullanAugust 7, 2026National Post, Politics
The Cristero Rebellion of 1926 Offers a Sober Warning Today

Horrors are possible in our time, and in places not far away.

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Christopher McMullanAugust 7, 2026National Post, Politics, Faith
The world grapples with the limits of military force

The U.S. and Israel have the force. But force may no longer be enough, even against a much weaker rival

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Christopher McMullanAugust 2, 2026National Post, Politics
Why is Trump suddenly warming up to Ukraine?

It's unlikely that it was a factor of principles and morality

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Christopher McMullanJuly 29, 2026National Post, Politics
Ukrainian protests reflect a healthy democracy

Ukraine has managed, remarkably, to preserve and even enhance its democratic culture during the restrictions of wartime

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Christopher McMullanJuly 26, 2026National Post, Politics
Polish Prelates: Four Cardinals Form a Pope

Four Polish cardinals—Wyszyński, Sapieha, Jaworski, and Deskur—profoundly shaped the life, ministry, and faith of St. John Paul II.

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Christopher McMullanJuly 26, 2026The Catholic Thing, Church Affairs
75 Years After His Death, Cardinal Sapieha’s Example Endures in Ukraine

The wartime archbishop of Kraków shaped St. John Paul II and became a model of episcopal courage whose witness finds a striking echo today in Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Ukraine.

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Christopher McMullanJuly 25, 2026National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
Trump is a gangster dressed up like a president

The Gordie Howe Bridge dispute is his latest Mafia-style shakedown

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Christopher McMullanJuly 19, 2026National Post, Politics
Lindsey Graham fought for Ukraine to his dying breath

The late senator was criticized for his cozy relationship with Trump, but this was the price he paid to sway the administration on Ukraine

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Christopher McMullanJuly 18, 2026National Post, Politics
Where was America 250's celebratory spectacle?

As American anniversary events and the World Cup have demonstrated, bigger, louder and longer does not mean more uplifting

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Christopher McMullanJuly 18, 2026National Post, Politics
U.S., Canada share a lineage of liberty

In his July 4th speech of 1918, Churchill traced the origin of political liberty and limited government to Britain's Magna Carta

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Christopher McMullanJuly 4, 2026National Post, Politics
Jefferson and the 4th of July

The deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on the 5th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence elevated the 4th of July from a secular holiday into a sacred national memorial

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Christopher McMullanJuly 4, 2026The Catholic Thing, Politics, Faith
The Declaration of Independence Packs History-Changing Power

That power resonates beyond the shores of the United States 250 years later.

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Christopher McMullanJuly 4, 2026National Catholic Register, Politics
What John Paul II Left Implicit Is Now Explicit: SSPX Is in Schism

Pope Leo XIV has chosen, with discretion, to end the failed outreach of Pope Benedict XVI to the SSPX.

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Christopher McMullanJuly 4, 2026National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
The SSPX Again Says No to the Catholic Church

The Society’s answers will always be No, even when the Church first offers Yes.

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Christopher McMullanJuly 4, 2026National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
America’s 250th will mark a lesser republic

Fifty years after a graceful waltz with the Queen, America celebrates with a submarine bell and diminished horizons

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Christopher McMullanJune 28, 2026National Post, Politics
The First, Second, and Third Rome – in Paris

Patriarch Bartholomew 's assumption of Pope Benedict XVI's academic seat in Paris highlights the enduring spiritual bond between Rome and Constantinople.

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Christopher McMullanJune 28, 2026The Catholic Thing, Culture, Church Affairs
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