TikTok and the Noonday Devil
The many dangers of smartphones and screen time for kids have been long articulated by now, but most have missed what this distraction is doing to their souls.
The Inferiority Complex of the Hick High School Graduate
What began as an encouragement for women to pursue college and a career has now become a pretended moral obligation, threatening a mark of anti-feminist shame for women who choose to opt-out.
A Synodal Lesson: Invoke the Destroyer of All Heresies
The recent synod testimonies are simply erroneous and explicitly contradict Catholic doctrine. We need to invoke the Destroyer of All Heresies against them.
Catholics Out in the Public Square
In the face of increasing hostility towards religion, and especially the Catholic Church, lay Catholics should in fact more fully live their faith.
Grave Necessity: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Defenders of the SSPX commit a category error when they invoke a state of emergency (or grave necessity) to justify disobedience.
Geography: A Tool for Our Earthly Pilgrimage
Geography matters for assessments of events because—like our Catholic beliefs—it is incarnational.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XII
Ultimately, all the awful things now impacting our lives will be swallowed up by time. We can instead set our minds on God, Whom time cannot mar.
The Crunchy Moms Reshaping the Republican Party
The emergence of MAHA in the Republican Party is blurring political lines and reshaping American politics for the better.
Grace Abounds in the Suffering Rooms
Such simple questions as “Are you a Christian? Have you ever thought about it?” save lives and souls and reverberate through time and eternity.
Of Performative Impiety and Nonperformative Piety
We know that we cannot judge the soul merely by exterior attributes; we know that it is wrong to make assumptions about a person’s interior disposition or depth of holiness based on casual clothing or external postures at Mass.
Gen Z Has Been Groomed for Radicalization
From screen addiction and social media echo chambers to pornography and nihilistic spiraling: the faceless internet is radicalizing and destroying young people and it’s time to take it seriously.
On Sanctifying Sodomy
The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-drooping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy.
Cardinal Suggestions for Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV is poised to pack the College of Cardinals. Here’s a strong list of candidates he should choose, and why.
Trump Administration Takes on the Malevolent LGBTQ+ Ideologies
For the first time since Obama began his program to “trans” America, the White House is pushing back against the LGBTQ+ stronghold on American institutions.
The View from the Laity: A Response to Fr. Gill
While it is a laudable desire for priests to try and celebrate the Novus Ordo reverently, it still contains temptations that work against that desire.
Disclosure: What Is Being Hidden in Plain Sight
There have been the strange recurring reports of scientists, engineers, and officials connected to sensitive fields whose deaths or disappearances have raised further questions.
Out, Out!—Violence, Obscenity, and the Recovery of Language
When we desensitize ourselves to bad language as a culture, we risk becoming a more violent culture.
The Resurrection of Beauty
Beauty is alive. It is alive with the living presence of the living God. It is God’s grandeur shining forth His Presence in creation and creativity.
Time for the Third Way
The ahistorical Left offers repackaged communism, the deadliest human failure and most triumphant demonic achievement in history. And the gilded Right screams about communism while peddling a ludicrous laissez-faire fantasy.
Prudence and the Consecrations
The question of whether or not the SSPX should consecrate new bishops is a question of prudence, as competing goods are at stake.
