The Anti-Language of Modernist Art
The winners of the recent Pontifical Academies Sacred Architecture Award speak in a thing I shall call The Language of No.
Babies Are Not Inconveniences or Commodities
Surrogacy creates a fake and contrived unreality: it rejects the fundamental relationship between intercourse and procreation.
Do Some Clergy Represent an Obstacle to the Eucharistic Revival?
A diocesan publication, in the context of the Eucharistic Revival, decides to give space to a priest’s pique about some of the faithful and their devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.
Coming Down the Mountain
At an early age, I started hearing the word gay used to describe me. I wasn’t sure what it meant the first time I heard it around kindergarten or first grade, but I could tell it wasn’t good.
The Jesus Revolution Remembered
The Jesus Revolution had all the elements of something I’d love: Jesus; the marvelously gifted Jonathan Roumie; the beautiful beaches of southern California; and redemption. Recipe for success; but it left me strangely unaffected.
Coffee Hour With the Feds
What is a Catholic to do when our after-Mass coffee hours are infiltrated by federal agents?
434.25 Books Until I Die
Besides the final disposition of my soul, what is much on my mind is what I should be reading before I one day die.
The Starved Man Who Changed the World
Thirty-one years ago today, Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, one of the greatest forces for good for the humiliated, abandoned, and rejected in the history of the world, died like a poor man.
The Offering of Children to False Gods
Protecting the innocence of children is the most minimal function of a society that calls itself civilized.
Overschooled and Undereducated
The purpose of schooling—which is not the same as education—is to encourage people to express confident platitudes, which they are pleased to call their opinions, about things they know nothing of.
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.
The Revolution Is Upon Us
Progressives, political or religious, figured out that you don’t need to have the masses on your side if you control who runs the bureaucracies.
The Splendor of Theology
When the truth and the life of the Catholic Thing coexist, the result will constitute nothing less than the splendor of theology itself.
Why Is Pope Francis Dealing With the CCP?
Why is the pope not defending free speech, democratic rights, or indeed the rights of practicing Christians and particularly Catholics within China?
No Trespassing in the Vineyard
Too often the Church’s highest authorities seemingly endorse violations of both political and spiritual boundaries.
Take Hold of the Hope
Sins and scandals are piling up. Everything seems to be falling apart. Where is our hope? And how do we fix this?
Ultramontanism: A Means Not an End
Ultramontanism itself—the hailing of the reigning pontiff as Supreme Leader of the faithful, whose every utterance must be accepted unquestioningly—is a relatively recent phenomenon in the life of the Church.
Unholy Ghost in the Machine?
Is it possible for demons to infiltrate into the ones and zeros that make up the codes that generate our images and videos?
What Does It Mean to Be a “Welcoming” Church?
Contra Cardinal McElroy, genuine ecclesial inclusion goes through the path of acknowledging and renouncing one’s sinfulness.
A Case for Liturgical Crossover
This future in which traditional Catholics in their TLM-celebrating churches are separated from the rest of the faithful in diocesan parishes would be immensely harmful for all.