Questions Surrounding the Consecration of Russia
The upcoming consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary raises many questions about Our Lady’s request and past consecrations.
Weaponized Catechisms
Recent updates to Canon Law make it likely that we’ll see new and updated catechisms being used to propagate errors in faith and morals—a kind of “viral vector” for doctrinal innovation.
Making Jesus in Our Own Image
The play “A.D. 16” is yet one more stupid, irreverent example of reducing Jesus to a flat, uninteresting manifestation of our own fleeting pet political and cultural fetishes; one with no ability to speak eternal truths.
How the USCCB Can Save $28 Million
The USCCB plan to foster more reverence for the Eucharist could be done a lot cheaper, and a lot more successfully, with just a few simple steps.
“Don’t Say Gay” and Other Lies About Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill
A recent Florida parental rights bill has come under attack by the Woke Axis for supporting the rights of parents to know what their kids are being told in schools.
Ranking 2024 GOP Candidates Based on Their Covid Response
How politicians responded to the Covid crisis is one of the best ways to judge the potential 2024 Republican presidential candidates.
Weekly Wrap-Up: March 5-11, 2022
Russia and Ukraine get nowhere on ceasefire talks, inflation continues to rise, and a bishop is removed for not being onboard the vaccine train.
Can We Pray for Putin’s Death?
A good man might pray the imprecatory psalms against Putin; a perfect man would love him and pray for him. Which takes more courage?
Frankenstein in a Nutshell
Mary Shelley seems to have learned the hard way that iconoclastic “freedoms” do not make men into gods, or women into goddesses, but that they turn men into monsters and women into their victims.
McMansions With Nobody in Them
Bigger and newer housing means higher purchase costs and property taxes, which encumber a greater proportion of a family’s income for basic needs, squeezing out lower income families.
The Totalitarian Covid Narrative Was Founded on “Tolerance”
We have become so accustomed to lies on top of lies as the foundation of our social framework that we were not equipped to stand up for the truth.
Are You Responsible for the Errors of Russia?
The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed that we are individually responsible for the sins of everyone in the world—and it is a mindboggling and soul-shaking meditation that is ripe material for Lent.
A Church Without a Chest
“Men without chests” are those who lack any sense of the sublime, the beautiful, the homely, or the slovenly, the ugly, and the perverse. What is a Church without a chest?
Dispatch from the Convoy
Even though the media is ignoring it, the People’s Convoy is growing in strength.
The Case for a Strong Western Response to Russia
The West’s tepid response to the unprovoked and wholly unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine will likely make larger-scale military conflict—even nuclear conflict—more likely.
Letting Go, Letting God
In striving for sanctity, the ancients had an advantage over us. They had something that many of us appear to have lost: they actually believed in an objective order.
Reality, Idealism, and Ukraine
The stakes for Ukrainians and Russians in this are existential; for Americans sitting behind computers, they are a luxury item to be indulged in, to signal one’s “virtue” by condemning the villain and praising the plucky underdog.
Matthew Perna, Political Prisoner, Hangs Himself
The treatment of one of the January 6th protesters gives us every reason to be afraid of our own government.
Weekly Wrap-Up: February 26-March 4, 2022
The Russia/Ukraine War continues, President Biden gives his State of the Union, a debate about the Consecration of Russia, and Lent has begun! We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
The Curious Case of Russia’s Consecration
Many are urging the pope to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart. Aside from whether this has already occurred or not, there is the problem that there is no set way to “consecrate” a country.