Wolfgang Smith’s Legacy
Smith observed that while the sciences’ blind adherence to a flat material reality permits a certain utility, it does not account for the multidimensional world in which we actually live.
Beyond Apocalypse: Believing in Cultural Restoration
It is easy to diagnose our problems, especially when faced with a culture as unhealthy as ours. It is much harder to prescribe a cure. But that’s our most important work.
Sacrifice, Suffrages, and “This Mass Is Offered for….”
Even on Vatican II’s own terms for liturgical participation the contemporary Catholic seems handicapped unless he recovers two notions that have fallen into eclipse: that of the Mass as sacrifice and of suffrages.
Why Do People Say They Leave the Faith?
Survey after survey, Catholicism by the numbers continues a race towards the bottom. In order to reverse the trend, we need to understand why people leave.
The Church and the Resurgence of Nationalism, Part III
The conflict between nationalism and the Church came about because the Church believed society and human nature to be hierarchical, which clashed with the (relative) egalitarianism of nationalism.
Why the Epstein List Matters
We live in a post-trust era, and radical transparency is the only way out.
Read This Book!
Chesterton, as a writer of and for the human imagination, might be the best evangelist in an age where truth is not allowed to enter, and beauty has been replaced by the obscene.
Ghosts in the Republic: Truth, Shadows, and the Death of Integrity
In the brave new world of online discourse, objective truth will not be tolerated by the ghostly “anons” who exist in the shadows of tribal “truth.”
Cardinal Newman’s Liturgical Compass
If the Mass of our forefathers is to be restored to the Church, we must understand Holy Mass in the same way they understood and saw.
Four More Australian Heroes of the Faith
A look at four more unsung heroes from the Australian continent, including the great Frank Sheed!
Beware the Priest as Clown
The priest as clown is worse than a heretic who leads God’s people along the wrong path. The clown priest leads God’s people into not regarding God at all—a spiritual shrug and disinterested blasphemy.
You Mistake Me for a Boomer When I Am a Jones
Blame is often placed on Boomers for all the guitar masses, horrible catechesis, and felt banners. But is that fair?
Thoughts About the Mass for Care of Creation
Can Pope Leo XIV build bridges from Pope Francis’ arguably liberal mouthpiece encyclicals to something squarely Catholic?
Take Courage and Show Thyself a Man
We live in a fraught time, full of discord and uncertainty—precisely the time God created you for.
Overturn Bostock!
While the Supreme Court rejected the infamous “textualist decision” Bostock’s logic in a recent decision, it needs to do the right thing and overturn that case.
John Senior’s Star Is Rising
John Senior’s project to restore learning to education is sending up new shoots across America, with St. Andrew’s Academy in Kentucky celebrating its second year.
What’s Old Is New
We see the “rediscovery” of the TLM taking place in people who were not alive when either Archbishop Lefebvre or John Paul II were and who have no emotional baggage or trauma from the indult era.
Should the Catholic Church Embrace Homeschooling?
Homeschooling has continued see growth among Catholic parents. Is it time for the Church to officially support it?
Parish Priests Are the Cure to the Crisis
If parishes are giving better catechesis and liturgy, emphasizing Confession, and building devotion to the Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary, shouldn’t they be seeing more fruit?
A Saint of and for Our Times
The next round of canonizations includes a layman who stood for marriage in remote Papua New Guinea.
