The Paris Olympics: Caligula Redux
The tragedy was not the outrageous blasphemy. It was the absence of howling outrage.
The Priest as Hercules
A perfect metaphor for the classical priest is Hercules. Sadly, the Modern priest happily sees himself as Shirley Temple, steering not the mighty Barque of Peter but the Good Ship Lollipop.
Fathers, Rise to Your Greatness
Echoes of the Holy Trinity ring out in the hearts of fathers. Failing to appreciate this leaves them prey to the cultural vandals.
Returning to Our Knees: Reviving Eucharistic Revival
In the Most Holy Eucharist, we meet Christ physically. This astonishing mystery causes us to fall to our knees, or should, unless we have suffered a fatal breach of faith.
Is Christ a Magician?
Why is Our Savior so frightful about those seeking “signs and wonders”’? For these are the demands of those men who seek the compensations of this world rather than the rewards of the next.
Heaven Is Only in Heaven
Secularism tries to turn this world into a atheistic heaven. Our only defense against this lie is the Ascended Christ.
Whatever Happened to Lent?
A New Idea of Lent has invaded the entire Church. A gauzy altruism has taken the place of a rigorous program of penance and prayer.
Catholicism Is About Swords
Our Faith is about swords, not hand-holding. Those swords are first directed at our sins, and then directed at the evils in the world and in our Church.
Of “Healing Priests” and Other Strange Intrusions
What is absent in enthusiasm is a humility before the example of the saints, who never prayed with external display or manic delirium but always with a calm and chastened manner.
Rome, We Have a Problem
The traditional Latin Mass held at the U.S. Capitol last week was a Jericho-Walls-crumbling moment.
The Time of Magical Thinking
Last year’s Synod on Synodality was a moment of Magical Thinking, bearing no resemblance to historic Christianity.
O Death, Where Is Thy…Tickle?
For all of its fearfulness, the Church never cheated her children of death’s sublime, albeit mournful, reality.
Is Opposition to Illegal Immigration a Sin?
Not only do nations have the right to enact laws that limit immigration but also nations have as their principal obligation to first assure the common welfare of its own citizens.
The Paradoxes of Auschwitz: Barbarity and Beatitude
“Cheery religion” can’t produce Edith Steins. Only the Old Faith can do that. The Old Faith, unafraid of the Cross.
Does Jesus Love You Just the Way You Are?
You see, Jesus does not love us just the way we are. He pities the way we are.
Archbishop Cordileone vs. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
By strongly condemning the growing anti-Catholicism around us, Archbishop Cordileone also rebukes the tepid response of many Catholic leaders and ordinary Catholics to this evil.
Paulist Fathers: Disassembling the Catholic Faith For Decades
Because dissemblers like the Paulist Fathers have been busy at their work, most Catholics today have only the leanest idea of what being a Catholic means.
Easter: Launching the Revolution of the Cross
Easter is the unleashing of the Revolution of the Cross. It should be unsettling, like an earthquake. Wondrous, as the explosion of galaxies. Penetrating, as the sound of a thousand marching armies.
The Preferential Option for the Poor Sinner
Our Lord does not see rich or poor, privileged or unfortunate, low class or high. He sees only fallen men and women whom He loves.
A Berlin Wall—Again
It must seem to the decent Catholics attached to the Traditional Mass that a kind of Berlin Wall is closing in upon them.