A Note from the Authors on 24 June 2021 (the Nativity of St. John the Baptist): In late August 2012, now almost 10 years ago, while we were reading and discussing together candidly a variety of challenging books, my wife and I both considered a few recurring and connected insights in these counterpointed texts which…
Dr. Robert Hickson God and the Knowledge of Reality (1973) by Dr. Thomas Molnar: An Inchoate Young Scholar’s Brief 1975 Review of the Book’s Trenchant Substance Author’s Note on 3 June 2021: After unexpectedly recently discovering my June 1975, 4-page book review of Dr. Molnar’s profound little study—my review being written while I was still…
Author’s Note, on 12 May 2021: This essay was completed on 19 January 2013, which was less than a month before the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was announced (on 11 February 2013), and almost two months before Pope Francis’ election to replace Benedict XVI as the new pope (on 13 March 2013). Moreover,…
Author’s Note, 26 April 2021: This essay of 20 pages was originally written three years after the open invasion of Iraq in March of 2003. Various privatizations of warfare and security-services were already showing themselves, under new conditions of technology and finance. This essay is a sequel to an earlier essay by the author, entitled:…
Note: this essay has first been published at LifeSiteNews.com and is re-printed here with kind permission. by Dr. Maike Hickson Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has recently written a preface for a book, Gratitude, Contemplation, and the Sacramental Worth of Catholic Literature, a collection of essays written by my husband Dr. Robert Hickson over the course of…
Dr. Robert Hickson 23 November 2020 Pope Saint Clement I (d. 100) Saint Miguel Pro, S.J. (d. 1927) To Weaken and Manipulate the Complex Human Immune System: A Strategic Objective and Desirable Application for Some Malefactors Epigraphs “Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution…
Dr. Robert Hickson 29 September 2020 Saint Michael the Archangel Epigraphs “The censor’s sway is felt most acutely in the social sciences, especially in the sphere of history. Soviet censorship begins in the head of the historian.” (Alexander Nekrich, “Rewriting History” (1980)—my emphasis added) *** “For the conscientious researcher, work loses all point if the…
Dr. Robert Hickson 21 September 2020 Saint Matthew (d. 65) Epigraphs “Who were exempt from taking the 1910 Antimodernist Oath, why, and since when? Were the Vatican II Fathers themselves and their Advisors (Periti) also exempt, or did some of them gravely and consequentially perjure themselves?” *** “What are the actual repercussions and some further…
Dr. Robert Hickson 2 August 2020 Our Lady…
(Author’s June 2020 note: This essay was written and published in early January 2013.) Dr. Robert Hickson …