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The atheistic Marxist Chinese Communist Party has long sought to destroy religion in China and, most especially, the Roman Catholic Church. In 2018, the Vatican became complicit in the CCP’s crimes against Chinese believers and their clergy, churches and Bible – all of which Pope Francis studiously ignored.   The deal whereby this betrayal was institutionalized…

On August 15, 2016, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered perhaps the most clear-eyed speech ever given by such a political figure about the grave threat posed by, and the necessity of countering, “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” He condemned its animating ideology rooted in “Sharia law,” which he promised to use “ideological warfare” to defeat. Mr.…

President Donald Trump is making a gigantic bet on a remade Middle East. The massive weapons sales he has announced to Saudi Arabia and others that may be in the offing with additional regional states, to say nothing of his termination of sanctions on and possible normalization of relations with Syria might make sense in…

Overshadowed by news yesterday of progress by the Trump team in securing more reciprocal trade arrangements with the Chinese Communist Party were reports that top Wall Street firms are doubling down on the CCP’s wildly unreciprocated access to our capital markets. At issue is fundraising that Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America…

Even as the United States was negotiating yesterday with Iranian diplomats to effect their country’s denuclearization, Iran’s regime was putting on a show of its undiminished enmity with mobs chanting “death to America.”  The man most especially, and quite literally, in the mullahs’ crosshairs is President Donald Trump. They have for some time had assassination…

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The election of Peruvian-American Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is a fresh start for the Vatican. Or is it?  An early test of whether this papacy will amount to more of the same will be if the new pontiff continues the worst legacy of…

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Eighty years ago today, the Second World War in Europe ended. Amidst celebrations of the anniversary, there’s widespread cognitive dissonance – psychologists’ term for an inability to perceive what one doesn’t want to see. European elites in particular profess concerns about the possibility of another invasion…

Bloomberg reports that two of Wall Street’s biggest firms have doubled-down on their intention to help raise at least $7 billion dollars for a Chinese military company helping the People’s Liberation Army prepare to kill Americans.  Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America exemplify the indifference of too many in the U.S.…

Tonight U.S. time, the cardinals who currently collectively make up the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church will lock themselves away in the Sistine Chapel to make the most fateful decision of their lives – and, arguably that of the spiritual life of their institution.  They will not only be electing a new pope. They…

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  In less than two days, the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church will lock itself in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. One of his first acts will be to mark on May 24th the annual day of prayer for China.  We need to…

Donald Trump’s selection yesterday of Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his acting National Security Advisor is a God-thing.  It comes at a moment when the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church will for sure decide on its next pope. The cardinals also need to act on a direct threat to the institution, its clergy,…

It is a time of choosing for the Roman Catholic Church. Obviously, its cardinals will be making a choice of a new pope one week from today.  But an extremely powerful webinar yesterday revealed that they face an even more immediate and, arguably, more fraught choice in the meantime. The cardinals must decide whether the…

Last week, Pope Francis died. Starting this week, as Catholic leaders prepare to select his successor, a question that must be formally addressed is: Will a secret, and scandalous, part of the last papacy be laid to rest, as well? In 2018, an as-yet-undisclosed deal was struck by the Vatican with the Chinese Communist Party.…