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Christopher Check
Christopher Check is the Executive Vice President of
the Rockford Institute, which publishes the magazine, Chronicles:
A Magazine of American Culture.
He has lectured nationwide on life and family issues,
defense, the dangers of modern communication technology, military and
Church history, and lives of saints. His interests include the early
Christian Martyrs, the Army of the Roman Republic, Saint Catherine
of Siena, Saint Joan of Arc, Henry VIII’s Divorce, the Battle
of Lepanto, the Cristeros, and the effect of empire building on the
soldier’s soul.
See Mr. Check's biography
and endorsements of the Lepanto lecture here.
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Lepanto: The
Battle That Saved The Christian West
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Networking Dinner and Lecture
6:00 PM
Speaker: Christopher Check
Maggiano's Little Italy
2001 International
Drive
McLean, Virginia
On October 7, 1571, the most important
sea battle in history was fought near the mouth of what is
today called the Gulf of Patras, then the Gulf of Lepanto. On one side
were the war galleys of the Holy League and on the other, those of
the Ottoman Turks, rowed by tens of thousands of Christian galley slaves.
Although the battle decided the future of Europe, few Europeans, and
even fewer European Americans, know the story, much less how close
Western Europe came to suffering an Islamic conquest.
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On October 7, 1911, English poet
and theologian, G.K. Chesterton honored the battle with what
is perhaps the greatest ballad of the 20th Century. He wrote this extraordinary
poem while the postman impatiently waited for the copy. It was instantly
popular and remained so for years. John Buchan, who later wrote The
39 Steps, wrote to Chesterton in 1915 from the trenches in France, “We
shouted your Lepanto to one another today....” Little wonder that
the poem’s stirring images would be an inspiration to soldiers
locked in a struggle for the soul of Europe. The ballad is no less
inspiring today and is more timely than ever, as the West faces the
growing threat of Islam.
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Recent Event
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A culture awash in fear of conflict speaks an uneasy and inauthentic
dialogue of tolerance. Language, meant to evoke and express a vibrant
sense of tension, has been reduced to manipulative sound bites packaged
with meaningless and untrustworthy saccharine phrases.
Once the instrument for communion, speech has become the means for stealth exploitation
and control. Mary Meade will give us the antidote for the prevalent fear and
utilitarianism which haunts our culture ’s spoken word.
Mary S. Meade, Esq., is the President of the Law Offices of Mary S.
Meade, and Executive Director of the Marriage and Family Recovery Programs (Marriage
& Family Recovery website) . She is co-author of Whose
FBI (Open Court) and the forthcoming Conflict Resolution
in Faith and Reason: How to Have an Undamnably Good Fight! |
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Griffin Foundation
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