The Looming Artificial Intelligence Crisis
We may well be at the stage where we will need to advertise “100% human-made” in a “post-human,” twisted version of “non-GMO.”
Will The Right’s Next Pro-Life President Please Stand Up?
The Right’s former pro-life hero and the “greatest pro-life president we’ve ever had” thinks the “abortion issue” was an inconvenient problem that cost us the election…and especially inconvenient were those who dared to insist on no exceptions.
Modesty vs. Androgyny
Modesty includes dressing distinctively feminine, if you are female, and distinctively masculine, if you are male, and not succumbing to androgynous behavior or looks, but dressing as you know you ought.
No Happy Endings in Transland
A new documentary tells the sad stories of young victims of gender ideology.
The Prince Who Became a Pauper…and a Priest
A little-known 19th-century priest, born into Russian nobility but eventually a Catholic missionary priest in America, lived a life that can be a model for us today.
Dare We Fear That Most Men Be Damned?
Modern Catholics live under the assumption that Hell is mostly empty. But doing so radically impacts our ability to fulfill the Great Commission.
Glass Onion and Our Culture’s Envy of Virtue
At bottom, the problem with Johnson’s clumsy satire “Glass Onion” is that it is hampered by envy.
A Hill On Which To Die
Defending marriage these days would seem to be a hill on which not so many are prepared to die. But why should that be the case? After all, there really isn’t anything more deserving of defense than the oldest institution in the world.
The Actual Changes the Church Needs Today
If the Church is to restore the moral landscape and fulfill the Great Commission, the work of restoration must begin within the Church itself.
Cardinal Pell’s Toxic Nightmare
Before his death, Cardinal Pell recognized the fatal flaw in the Synod on Synodality’s inclusion paradigm: it will result in a jettisoning of every doctrine and tradition.
The Decline of the Catholic Vote
The midterm election is now well behind us, and the statisticians have calibrated the Catholic vote. Perhaps the busy reader would like an abridged summary: There is no Catholic vote. Why?
From Pronouns to Names: The Latest Front in the “Gender Identity” Wars
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, identity is not self-invented: it comes directly from God. Gender-neutral names seek to undermine that God-given identity.
When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be President
We’re to the point in the culture wars where “the best defense is a good offense,” and if you want to protect your family from these pernicious influences, you’ve got to push back hard. This means running for (local) office.
Vinland in a Nutshell
Some authors and some books are not as well-known as they should be. This is indubitably the case with George Mackay Brown and his tour de force of a novel: Vinland.
Gender Ideology Breaches the Gates of Medicine
Science is incapable of resolving the debate about treatments for childhood gender dysphoria.
The Final Countdown
We like to have countdowns to special dates: Christmas, New Year’s, etc. But we can’t have a countdown to the date of our death.
Erasing Poor White Children From the Past and Present
As the academic and cultural elites would tell it, history is a tale of oppression, and the Haves and Have-Nots are readily discernible, for they can be recognized on racial grounds. But what about the white poor?
Raising Children in an Anti-Child World
There is a growing childfree movement comprised of people who intentionally choose never to welcome children. Often people mistakenly see their own laziness and selfishness as very important aspects of their person that are worthy of protection and cultivation.
Cardinal George Pell, Peace At Last
Besides being a champion for orthodox Catholicism in an age of liberalism, Cardinal Pell will be remembered primarily as the Prince of the Church who went to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
Farewell to Luther
Luther’s theological positions were disastrously wrong, but his anguished search for certainty of his own salvation humanized him for me, as much as his screeching diatribes against the Church repulsed me.