Weekly Wrap-Up: April 2-8, 2022
A new Supreme Court Justice is confirmed, the bodies of aborted babies are given a proper burial in DC, and Holy Week is approaching. We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
Why “Cathonomics” Is Neither Catholic nor Economic
A recent book on Catholic economics is unfortunately neither faithfully Catholic or competently economic.
The Hierarchy Should Not Outsource Leadership to the Laity
The Church is not a democratic society, and attempts to make it so will not actually liberate the laity as promised.
Restore Year-Round Friday Abstinence
The 1966 bishops’ decision to drop Friday abstinence hasn’t borne fruit. Like the barren fig tree, there seems to be good reason to cut it down and clear the ground.
Wuthering Heights in a Nutshell
The darkness of Wuthering Heights is driven by the refusal of the novel’s principal protagonists to love their neighbors or to forgive those who have sinned against them.
Too Many Red Pills Can Be Bad for Your Health
A life lived on red pills is an unstable way of being. We spend the whole time tearing things down and disbelieving things so that we leave little room to build things up and to believe in real things
The Ten Sins of Gay Surrogacy
There is a whole host of sins when “married” homosexual men rent the wombs of surrogates to procure babies for themselves.
Fearing Death Is for the Pagans
Covid revealed that many modern Christians had the same fear of death as the pagans of old.
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.