Covid Regime Takes a Mortal Blow Where It Began: Italy
The election of Giorgia Meloni as the Prime Minister of Italy is sending shockwaves across both the Left and the Right as an opponent of the globalist Elite enjoys widespread support.
The Commoditization of the Faithful
Conflict can lead to fewer butts in the pews and less income for the Church. This can lead to pastors being unwilling to teach challenging things for fear of driving away wealthy donors.
The Skies Are Darkening
As the storm approaches, I have a strange kind of calm. I know that my wife and my children love me, so that’s all right; and I do trust that they know I love them. But a man wants something other than that. We need to be needed.
You Are Your Child’s Teacher
The great deceit of modernity is the outsourcing of parenting and education to the state, principally through the school system, with the expectation that children will not have divided loyalty.
Bring Back the Box
Face-to-face Confession has become the norm. But I can’t help but wonder how many souls have been discouraged in the process. Confession is easily the most intimate spiritual thing imaginable. Is assumed confidentiality really enough?
Pedagogy or Plumbing…Must We Choose?
There can be no reason to commend a college or university to anyone if there is no connection between the life of the campus and the light of truth.
Brideshead Revisited in a Nutshell
The theme of Brideshead Revisited is the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters.
The Unvaccinated Have Won
Justin Trudeau has relented to public pressure and the growing national and international resentment against him and has thusly dropped his insane segregationist vaccine border mandate.
“Inclusive” Flemish Bishops Exclude Christ
The Flemish bishops caused a stir this week by issuing a document outlining a liturgy for blessing same-sex couples. In doing so, they abandon the way of the Lord.
The Anti-Catholic Path of Synodality
The real problem behind the Synod on Synodality is the fatally-flawed underlying presuppositions about how the Church operates and the role of the laity in shaping it.
On Wearing Socks and the Death of the Queen
Before we can have a Christian civilization, we must first have a civilization. We must have rituals and rules. We must have etiquette, a way things are done.
The Blessings of Non-Essential Services
In times of need, we discover that so-called “nonessential services”—which our political and religious leaders denied us two years ago—are actually not so nonessential after all.
The Value of Speaking in Parables
What is the point of trying to reason with people for whom reason has no purchase? So, I speak in parables.
Against the Magisterium of Specialists
In the Church, specialists should not rule, but instead it is the bishops who should act as “experts of the whole.” But, in practice, they often abandon this duty.
Evangelicals and Catholics Together Again
In an America increasingly hostile to both evangelicals and Catholics, we need to not only reinforce the ecumenical qualities of the pro-life movement, but we need to expand out into other areas.
The Guns of August—Then and Now
It seems to me that the similarities between August 1914 and August 2022 are all disturbing: venal and clumsy politicians, states clashing as they rise and fall, an overconfidence in human wisdom and an underestimation of human vulnerability.
The Left and Its Problems with Language
God makes clear in Genesis that naming things accurately is an integral part of His creative act. We cannot have a beautiful and breathtaking creation if it is divinely misnamed. Misnaming creation is to introduce deception into what is inherently good.
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.
Is a Plurality of Religions Willed by God?
Pope Francis has declared that a plurality of religions is “willed by God.” What does this mean, and, more importantly, is this true?
Is Gay Marriage Back on the Political Agenda?
For many on the right, gay marriage is off the table as a political issue – it’s “settled” now. But for some of us, phony gay marriage was never off the agenda.