The Rooster Crows for Christ
Revisiting the forgotton symbols of Christian culture help us to deepen our understanding of scripture and our faith.
Forgive Them, Father
The hardest people to forgive are those men called to be our spiritual fathers and shepherds who are blatantly and publicly inflicting wounds on the mystical body of the Church.
Saints Walking Among Us
Gaining a cozy, daily familiarity with a handful of the old saints can alleviate some of the depression and loneliness we might feel in the present often unfriendly environment of our Church.
Casting Down the Strange Gods
Catholics who feel somewhat cast adrift in the choppy waters of modernism and innovation would do well to make Mother Francis’ acquaintance.
By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them
In our increasingly all-present welfare state, we must realize that working for our daily bread is not a necessary evil but a means to ensuring man’s dignity and humanity.
The Vatican Assault on Religious Life Claims More Victims
An Italian monastery worth millions is another in a succession of religious houses being shut down by the Vatican for questionable reasons.
The Anti-Human Humanitarians of Davos
The World Economic Forum, with its impressive collection of CEOs ranging from Pfizer to Facebook to Black Rock, as well as senior representatives of all major heads of state, has become an anti-human, globalist shadow government.
Forgive Big Brother Seventy Times Seven Times?
What should be the Christian response to pleas for a “pandemic amnesty”?
“The Truest Ghost Story Ever Told”
Nestled in West Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, the town of Middleway boasts a ghost story that rivals the most famous haunted tales. What makes this haunting stand out is that it is a Catholic story.
Mothers of Men
One of the key places where modernity went wrong was in its belief that education is a gender-neutral activity. Boys in particular suffer from this error.
That Hideous Strength: A Prophecy for Our Times
For those of us attempting to weather the unsettling global upheavals in the 21st century, “That Hideous Strength” is vital reading to understand the network of connections in the cosmic battle in which we find ourselves.
Perelandra: Dreadful Good and Reasonable Evil
Good and evil, it turns out, are not so clichéd as we like to comfortably think; for good can be deeply unpleasant, while evil can seem both unstoppable and even reasonable.
Out of the Silent Planet: A Guidebook Against the “New Normal”
The relevance of C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy has grown more, not less, as the twenty-first century ushers in the “New Normal” and the “Great Reset.”
Pillaging the Monasteries: The Vatican’s Hidden Financial Scandal
New Vatican regulations have led to forcibly-shuttered monasteries’ assets being claimed by a bureaucratic monastic federation, the diocese, and the Vatican, raising questions on how decisions are made.
Boycott Disney to Save Your Child’s Soul
Boycotting Disney can revolutionize a family’s entire approach to children’s entertainment. It can become an opportunity to introduce our children to a greater wealth of stories.
Disney Has Been Corrupting Kids for Decades
Disney has been quietly and steadily paving the way for the new normal of identity politics for almost forty years now
Recovering the Betrothal Ceremony and the Churching of Women
As part of our push to save traditional forms of Catholic life, why don’t we begin asking that our priests perform for us the old and beloved rites and customs that have been forgotten in the course of the twentieth century?
The Beauty of Austerity
Faithfulness to the austere beauty of Teresa’s rule was the cause for canonization for a little-known modern saint, Mother Maravillas de Jesus (1891-1974).
Why is the Vatican Assailing Contemplative Life?
The future of contemplative orders in the Catholic Church is under siege, not by the oft-bemoaned vocations crisis, but by Archbishop Josè Rodrìguez Carballo, the secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. In 2018, Carballo released Cor Orans, a series of regulations on women’s monastic orders. Cor Orans … Read more
The Power of Poetry in The Hobbit
This year, if you want to make your Thanksgiving meal as awkward as can be, stand up from the table in front of your extended family, clear your throat, and recite a nice long poem. Your in-laws will visibly blanch, and the chattering toddlers will grow silent. This will be no mere political argument or … Read more