The Mystery of the Cross
In the Passion of Jesus, we see the most atrocious bitterness which He embraced for our salvation, yet he was totally abandoned to His Father’s Will.
Father Stu: A Flawed Story of Redemption
There is a lot wrong with the movie “Father Stu,” and lots of muck to get through to get to the payoff at the end.
We Need a Separation of Home and State
The cancerous growth of the State has come at the expense of the home, and the unholy has grown at the expense of the holy.
Weekly Wrap-Up: April 2-8, 2022
A new Supreme Court Justice is confirmed, the bodies of aborted babies are given a proper burial in DC, and Holy Week is approaching. We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
Is Cardinal Marx’s Heresy Set in Stone?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church isn’t above question or critique, but such inquiries should challenge not *what* the Catechism teaches but, rather, *how* it teaches it.
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 26-April 1, 2022
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs anti-grooming bill, the German bishops are heretics, and people remember that the Oscars still exist. We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
Smoking Out the Groomers
For the Left, nothing infuriates them more than forbidding them to talk about sex to children.
Facebook Invites Us to “Like” a Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Group
Are we now required to embrace any enemy of Russia, even if they themselves are repulsive?
Evangelizing the Post-Christian Culture
The Church’s strategy of evangelization has been to accommodate ourselves to the culture, reversing the words of St. Paul; we grow old and stale, conforming to the world.
Lia Thomas’ Victory Is a Loss for Women—and for Him
The lunacy of a man competing in women’s sports as a “woman” reveals that liberalism is like the snake that swallows its own tail, full of contradictions that end in shackling absurdity if pursued long enough.
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 12-18, 2022
The pope is consecrating Russia, a popular “conservative” commenter announces he and his “husband” are “having” two babies, and a man dominates in a woman’s sport.
Giving You the Shirt Off Your Neighbor’s Back
Governments in general are very good at giving you the shirt off your neighbor’s back while causing the conditions that make you need the shirt in the first place.
Leftists Leaving the Left
A fresh raft of intellectual refugees are turning from the Left because the corrupted Left they knew has left them.
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 5-11, 2022
Russia and Ukraine get nowhere on ceasefire talks, inflation continues to rise, and a bishop is removed for not being onboard the vaccine train.
Are You Responsible for the Errors of Russia?
The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed that we are individually responsible for the sins of everyone in the world—and it is a mindboggling and soul-shaking meditation that is ripe material for Lent.
A Church Without a Chest
“Men without chests” are those who lack any sense of the sublime, the beautiful, the homely, or the slovenly, the ugly, and the perverse. What is a Church without a chest?
Matthew Perna, Political Prisoner, Hangs Himself
The treatment of one of the January 6th protesters gives us every reason to be afraid of our own government.
Weekly Wrap-Up: February 26-March 4, 2022
The Russia/Ukraine War continues, President Biden gives his State of the Union, a debate about the Consecration of Russia, and Lent has begun! We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
Who Knows More About the State of Our Union?
Who recognizes better the state of collapse of our American union today? Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin?
Weekly Wrap-Up: February 19-25, 2022
Russia has invaded Ukraine, the bishop of Knoxville is in trouble, and the Pope gives the green light to the FSSP – all this and more on today’s Crisis weekly wrap-up.