Time for the Third Way
The ahistorical Left offers repackaged communism, the deadliest human failure and most triumphant demonic achievement in history. And the gilded Right screams about communism while peddling a ludicrous laissez-faire fantasy.
Prudence and the Consecrations
The question of whether or not the SSPX should consecrate new bishops is a question of prudence, as competing goods are at stake.
Dirty Christians and Miserable Sinners
Shia LaBeouf’s rocky conversion is not as unusual as one might think.
Death Comes to Wyandotte—But I Guarantee You’d Love Living There
It’s been almost 20 years since Summorum Pontificum, and families have formed around traditional Catholic parishes. Death Comes to Wyandotte is Altham’s fictional account of those lives being lived.
Whither Hungary?
In the wake of Orbán’s electoral defeat, Hungary’s long-standing role as a defiant stronghold of national sovereignty, Christian family values, and cultural preservation hangs in the balance.
The World Isn’t Your Friend
Regardless of how much the stars seem to align in your life, there will come a time when you realize that as much as life is beautiful, you will inevitably come face-to-face with the unsettling fact that the world is decidedly against you.
Waiting for a State of Emergency
The Church’s ‘state of emergency’ is exemplified by this: that for Rome, the only unforgivable sin is noticing there is a problem.
On Moral Hierarchies: Rhetoric, Moral Inversion, and State-Sanctioned Killing
We invert the moral hierarchy when political rhetoric commands sustained moral scrutiny while the legalization of acts involving the deliberate taking of human life is barely brought up.
There Is Only One Mystical Body of Christ: The Catholic Church
Ever since the Church began engaging in ecumenical dialogue with “separated brethren” during the Second Vatican Council, we as a Church have refused to address the doctrinal disputes that actually divide us.
Work to Live, or Live to Work?
While man was sentenced to labor and toil for his bread, he was also commanded a day of rest from that work.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XI
Why do we pay attention to atheists when they condescend to tell us the truth about God, which is that He does not exist? Or anything at all touching on matters of the spirit, when they make no provision for it in their system?
What Triggered Trump—and What Leo Actually Has Said
The dustup between President Trump and Pope Leo had its source in the landmine planted by Leo’s predecessor in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC.
Does Josh Hammer Love Jesus?
Josh Hammer is upset that Tucker Carlson claimed that “Muslims love Jesus.” Let’s look at who does and doesn’t love Jesus.
The Unknown Classic Film About a Russian Iconographer You Should Know
A long-forgotten but critically-acclaimed film about a famous Russian iconographer celebrates its 60th anniversary and is worth rediscovering.
Pope Leo XIV Rejects Homosexual Unions, Yet Liberalism Continues to Guide the Holy See
Sins against sexuality lie at the root of Western moral decay and the spiritual poverty that follows it. The Church should proclaim its teachings on sexuality with unapologetic confidence.
Property Is Theft?
A sober analysis of our society reveals that theft—or its close cousin, the replacement of high quality by something inferior—now drive both the economy and the culture.
The Church Hierarchical, the Church Critical, and the Church Mystical
The sign of good Catholics would be, first and foremost, how they tried to love God with their whole minds and hearts, with their whole bodies and souls, and with their whole strength.
Fear and Wonder in the Upper Room
How many souls are there for whom salvation is less than a half-minute away! If only, that is, they allow themselves to be awakened from the sleep of sin long enough to be surprised by grace.
Easter 2026 and the Fading Catholic Left
As this galloping New Orthodoxy captures young heart after young heart, the Fr. Thomas Reeses of the spent Society of Jesus rage as they raise their clenched fists.