Childhood Be Damned
When I think of my own childhood and youth, it occurs to me that my happiest hours were rarely spent indoors, certainly not in school, nor at home in front of the television.
As For Me and My House
It’s hard to state what depths of farce, ineffectuality, and effete sentimentalism American politics has descended.
The Importance of Walls
Beyond the matter of real estate, boundaries—walls—are indispensable for art, for science, for healthy social interchange, and for the moral and religious life itself. They are, in fact, constitutive of creation.
A Flight into Reality
The study of literature makes you free of the solipsism of the present, to see more clearly what Russell Kirk called “the permanent things.”
Turning on Children
The nations of the West have turned against children. They are committing suicide.
If All Are Saved, What Happens to the Drama of Life?
Believing that Christ will save everyone calls into question the very meaning of life itself.
Recognizing Reality
The transgender hermit has practiced a deception upon the Church, for reality cannot be changed by our whims or delusions.
Do Conservatives Drive People Away from the Church?
According to some critics, the main causes of the decline in churchgoing are to be attributed to conservatives. Let’s break down why that’s ridiculous.
The Beauty of Tradition
“Traditional” Catholics have all the best stories and music and art, if for no other reason than that moral indifference does not a drama make.
The Hard Truths of Responsible Governance
You cannot have peace by merely assuming that people are going always to be pacific, reasonable, restrained in their desires, deferent to authority, and considerate of others.
The Group So Marginalized They Are Forgotten
In all the calls to remember the “marginalized,” one group that doesn’t even get mentioned is boys. Yet marginalized they are.
No Mercy for Sin Itself
It is one thing to tolerate your brother’s sin—because you yourself are a sinner, after all. It is another to accept it in principle, explicitly or implicitly.
Our Unhappy Youth
Many young people appear to have fallen into the most antihuman way of life that any civilization has ever settled into.
Empathy for the Devil?
Having consigned reason to that impoverished realm of human experience that can be subjected to controlled experiments and the quantification of their results, we are left with no basis upon which to make moral judgments except for feelings.
The Church Is Not Ruled by a Plebiscite
Sin does not grow sweet by majority practice; truth is not altered by a vote. The Church is not a political party.
It Is Not Good for Some Couples to Be Alone
The upshot is that two boys or two girls should not be a couple at all because that exclusivity is not what friendship is for; it is, in fact, an obstacle to the full flourishing of friendship.
The Pink Synod
Certain seminaries became pink palaces, where seminarians and priests commonly shrugged away their vows of chastity, treating such sins with a thoroughly modern wink and a nudge.
Male and Female He Made Them
It is no surprise that the call to ordain (or to pretend to ordain) women as priests comes mainly from people who wish to marry (or to pretend to marry) a man with a man or a woman with a woman.
The Papacy, Doctrine, and Development
The pope is not a free agent. His authority, humanly considered, flows from his submission to and dependence upon Peter, that fisherman, that first pilot of the bark of the Church.
