What Does Being Conservative Actually Mean These Days?
How will conservatives respond to the challenges of a rising China, a corporatist oligarchy hollowing out the American economy, and ubiquitous woke propaganda?
Disney Has Been Corrupting Kids for Decades
Disney has been quietly and steadily paving the way for the new normal of identity politics for almost forty years now
Is Cardinal Marx’s Heresy Set in Stone?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church isn’t above question or critique, but such inquiries should challenge not *what* the Catechism teaches but, rather, *how* it teaches it.
Everything Is Worse on Biden’s Watch
Could the incompetency on such a scale as the Biden Administration have happened by sheer accident? Or has it been going on all this time by design?
2% Catholics and the Roots of Modern Idolatry
Our world is awash in idolatry, from the “hard” idolatry of Pachamama to the “soft” idolatry of our smartphone obsession and celebrity culture. This widespread idolatry might be caused by something you wouldn’t suspect.
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 26-April 1, 2022
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs anti-grooming bill, the German bishops are heretics, and people remember that the Oscars still exist. We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
Don’t Look East Just Because of the Problems in the West
One theme among some conservatives has been the role of Russia as a sort of holy scourge of a decadent West. But the answer to Western problems is not salvation by way of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Smoking Out the Groomers
For the Left, nothing infuriates them more than forbidding them to talk about sex to children.
Canceling Public Prayer
Cancel culture has now moved to the time-honored tradition of prayer in public, declaring invocations and benedictions as unconstitutional attempts to “advance religious doctrine.”
The Pillaging and Plundering of the English Monasteries
The dissolution of the English monasteries is a blight on English history, and an example of a State grown out of control.
Hugh Hefner’s Twisted Vision of Freedom
Without the money and fame, Hugh Hefner would have been called a common pimp, scumbag, and drug addict.
Tips for Navigating the Modern Dating Culture From an Unlikely Source
Today’s dating includes people sorted and selected on dating apps, used and abused by their “lover,” and tossed aside none the wiser. Not surprisingly, those who go through this process have largely given up on marriage.
Facebook Invites Us to “Like” a Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Group
Are we now required to embrace any enemy of Russia, even if they themselves are repulsive?
Have We Lost Our Hunger for the Bread of Life?
Countless people no longer adhere to the truth of the Catholic Thing. Their numbers appear to have become like the sands of the sea—whole families fractured, as it were, by the defection of so great a number of their children.
Mary, the West, and Russia’s Errors: A Defense of Archbishop Viganò
Archbishop Viganò has not become absorbed with politics. He has become absorbed with the Eternal, with seeing the Eternal in the affairs of the day.
Evangelizing the Post-Christian Culture
The Church’s strategy of evangelization has been to accommodate ourselves to the culture, reversing the words of St. Paul; we grow old and stale, conforming to the world.
The Brainwashing of the Catholic Mind
As the world continually demands blind and unquestioning acceptance of The Current Narrative, Catholics should be more critical and judge those Narratives by the standards of our Faith.
The Betrothed in a Nutshell
“The Betrothed” by Alessandro Manzoni is little known, but could be acclaimed as the greatest ever novel.
Pope Francis and the Scrapping of the Just War Doctrine
Pope Francis, in just a few words, tossed Catholic Just War Teaching into the doctrinal trash bin where it may be keeping company with Francis’ 2018 revision of the Catholic teaching on capital punishment.
Will the Consecration Work?
The history of the Faith is filled with astonishing reversals, so why can’t the Consecration of Russia have a miraculous impact?