Why We Love Top Gun: Maverick and Why We Should Really Love It
Top Gun: Maverick is a fun movie that asks an important question: Should America always be the one to come running when the U.N. calls, especially when it puts lives in grave danger?
The Path to Rome in a Nutshell
The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc is a work of humility and awe, of gratitude and hope, of faith and love.
Pillaging the Monasteries: The Vatican’s Hidden Financial Scandal
New Vatican regulations have led to forcibly-shuttered monasteries’ assets being claimed by a bureaucratic monastic federation, the diocese, and the Vatican, raising questions on how decisions are made.
Brotherly Harshness in a World of Tribal Empathy
The race that does not accept respect for man from the time of his conception, is destined to an ignominious end, because it distorts the concept of love of neighbor, mistakes it with egoism, and cannot conceive the love of God at all.
The Original Groomer
Long before corporate America and the public school system were grooming children into adopting a rainbow way of life, Hugh Hefner was grooming generations into fornication and sexual debauchery.
Has the Sexual Revolution Finally Overreached?
In spite of being atheistic liberals, comedians Bill Maher and Ricky Gervais appear to be fed up with the latest lie of the sexual revolution, transgenderism.
Why Some Americans Cling to Their Guns
The Founders’ republican ideals put a premium on personal independence, and having a population that could defend itself was part of that tradition. Moreover, it was also considered a check against tyrannical governments.
The Tradition of Pentecost Poetry Reading Parties
Because the Holy Ghost inspired all the poetry of the Psalms, and because the three canticles in the Gospel of Luke are each preceded by the phrase “filled with the Holy Spirit,” Pentecost is the perfect time for a poetry reading party.
Our Culture of Abuse
Recent revelations about the Southern Baptists show that sexual abuse is not a “Catholic thing.” But it is a cultural thing and churches have been invaded by that culture of self-gratification that will take what it wants.
Behind the Motives of Mass Shooters
Most politicians are looking at the means or the opportunity behind mass shootings. Instead we need to change a culture that motivates such shootings.
The Visitation and the Personhood of the Unborn
As abortion increasingly roils American public life, the feast of the Visitation refutes the false prophets within Christianity, and unfortunately even Catholicism, who claim that support for abortion and Christianity are compatible.
Fear and Loathing in America
Abominations like mass shootings lead us to look for causes in the form of racism, of guns, of media distortions, but we must resist the quick-draw realm of social media takes and their inability to distinguish between proximate and remote causes.
Weekly Wrap-Up: May 21-May 27, 2022
19 children and two adults are killed at a school shooting in Texas, Archbishop Cordileone bans Nancy Pelosi from Holy Communion, and Joe Biden promises war with China. We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
Nancy Pelosi and the Gospel of Matthew: The Audacity of Pro-Abortion Rhetoric
Nancy Pelosi wraps her support of abortion in the mantle of the Gospel of Matthew. She stated that the parable of Chapter 25 was “the agenda of the Church and is rejected by many who side with them on terminating a pregnancy.”
A Fabricated Scandal
There’s been great outcry and shock at Archbishop Cordileone banning Nancy Pelosi from Communion. Somehow, the Church and the world have progressed to a point where it’s unexpected for a bishop to condemn what is an obvious evil.
Are Gays Replacing Christians in the Conservative Movement?
There seems to be a homosexual ascendancy in certain quarters of the “conservative” movement, and their influence is growing while Christians’ influence is waning.
Senator Bob Casey’s Pro-Life Charade Is Exposed
In spite of professing to be “pro-life,” Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey has never voted in favor of the pro-life cause when his vote would swing the decision.
Resetting the Old Mass/New Mass Conversation
A new documentary attempts to cool down the “liturgy wars” while advancing the conversation in a productive way.
Abortion’s Bed of Lies
Abortion is a natural and necessary extension of the cult of liberated sexuality because sexuality, untethered from the moorings of community, family, and trust, increasingly loses coherence the more its paroxysms proliferate.
A Special Saint for Our Time
St. Titus Brandsma, the martyred Carmelite priest from Holland who died at Dachau in 1942, stands out as perhaps the most compelling example for Catholics concerned about the threat of state-sponsored terror and tyranny.