Playtime for the Atheist
The only way to approve of or even condone any form of mock-marriage, homosexual or otherwise, is to deny that we have access to objective reality outside of our feelings about it.
Amazon’s Tolkien
It seems likely that Amazon Studios’ Rings of Power series will soon surpass Peter Jackson’s Battle of the Five Armies as the worst vandalism of Tolkien ever committed to film.
Recovering the Betrothal Ceremony and the Churching of Women
As part of our push to save traditional forms of Catholic life, why don’t we begin asking that our priests perform for us the old and beloved rites and customs that have been forgotten in the course of the twentieth century?
The Rock Should Not Throw Stones
Before celebrities like The Rock or anyone else feeds others to the woke mob, perhaps they need to look at their own past first.
The Revolution Will Be Domesticated
The domestication of polyamory is another example of how radical leftists work to make sexual deviancy accepted in this country.
Sense and Sensibility in a Nutshell
Jane Austen is a giantess among giants, towering above the greatest writers of her own sex and indeed of both sexes. She holds her own among the greatest of all time.
Asking the Left the Right Questions About Life
Instead of asking pro-abortion advocates when they believe life begins, we should be pushing them to answer what type of life they think the unborn is and why.
Even George Soros Is Scared of Xi Jinping
The Chinese President has ambitions of world domination that would crush freedom globally and even has the globalist George Soros scared.
The Unnatural Psychology of Vaccine Segregation
People had to make a choice about the unvaccinated’s worth as a citizen, they had to choose to support the stripping of the unvaxxed’s freedom, and they chose evil.
Some Funereal Thoughts on Liturgy
We have lost in the new liturgy our connection to our past. Many of us need the venerable liturgies, the timeless chants, the changeless gestures, to help us feel the eternal presence of Christ.
America’s High Holy Day
Super Bowl Sunday has become an almost religious event, and it reflects the reality that true religion has been replaced in America. What can we do to bring it back?
I’m Not Attending a Sinful Wedding. What about the Reception?
Is it moral to attend the reception following a sinful wedding? Or does that also support the sin being celebrated?
The Joy of Benign Misanthropy
Now “community” is often treated as virtually essential by Catholics from the most traditionalist to the most modern. But is this hyper-focus on community necessary?
The Silencing of Joe Rogan
The censorship surrounding discussions of COVID-19 is merely a symptom of a deeper malaise and a stance on the pandemic which has long since gone off the rails.
Live Not By Lies and the Croatian Prophet of Totalitarianism
The life of Croatian Jesuit Stjepan Tomislav Poglajen gives us a warning about the troubling direction in which the United States, Europe, and the entire West could move in the 21st century.
The Core of Integralism
Integralism has led to a firestorm of controversy in Catholic intellectual circles, and it has its able and enthusiastic defenders as well as its strident detractors. What is at the core of Integralism?
The Politicization of Ad Orientem
What are Catholics to think when bishops forbid ancient liturgical practices but allow egregious abuses?
The Creed of the Shallow Man
The insufferably self-righteous “We Believe” signs appearing in lawns across America are a smokescreen to prevent the shallow values they attempt to smuggle in from being challenged.
Roger Scruton for Catholics
At the heart of Roger Scruton’s philosophy was a Catholic understanding of the world: we are not alone.
A Painter Quietly Changing the Culture
For sacred Catholic art to survive, it must be more than insipid images, more even than 19th-century realism.