Priestly Ignorance of the New Mass
If priests are not aware of the origins of the new Mass, how can we expect fruitful dialog about the fact that some people prefer the preconciliar Mass to the modern one?
Vatican II and the Political Manichees
Vatican II quite rightly spoke of a “Universal Call to Holiness” and called upon the laity to exercise the apostolate in their particular spheres, which includes the political sphere.
Beyond the Post-Roe Generation
With Dobbs, our nation has finally taken a significant step in the right direction in regard to abortion. This is surely a decision to be rejoiced over and celebrated. Yet, a problem remains.
The Dangers of the Other AI
Artificial insemination is in growing demand, due to increased fertility issues and inherently sterile same-sex relationships.
Hungary Is Bad on the Moral Issues at the UN
Hungary courts American conservatives, but why does it take an aggressive position in favor of the sexual revolution at the U.N.?
The Homosexual Infestation of the Catholic Church
The predominance of homosexuality within the ranks of Catholic clergy is a chief cause of the clerical sex abuse crisis and it fundamentally undermines the Church’s core mission.
Materialists Against the Material World
What is at stake in our current controversies regarding male and female? Nothing less than creation itself.
Chivalry vs. the Culture
The “backpack hero” and the subway defender show that chivalry is not dead, even while our society tries to destroy it.
Psychology Has Been Hijacked by Gender Activists
The vast majority of children with gender dysphoria will grow out of it naturally, but that knowledge is suppressed because the field of psychology has been hijacked by woke gender activists.
Trusting the Experts Is a Sign of Spiritual Decline
Our society is no longer looking to God, Scripture, and tradition for answers to life’s most meaningful questions, but we were replacing such authorities with a new deity: the “Experts.”
Are We Willing to Defend Our Faith?
If Catholic conviction about Christ, grounded in history from the time of the first stirrings of the Church’s life on the day of Pentecost, is true, then we’re all obliged to defend it.
Trump vs. the Washington War Machine
The prosecution of Donald Trump is entirely, overtly, and embarrassingly political. And it’s mostly because he dares oppose the Washington War Machine.
Seeds of Adoration
In our culture nearly all vestiges of adoration of any kind have been removed. So do we even know what we are doing when we say we are adoring?
800-Year-Old Music Honoring St. Anthony of Padua
Highly venerated from the first, many works of art have had St. Anthony as their subject, from plastic garden statues to paintings by El Greco and Raphael. He has also been honored in music.
God Bless Bishop Strickland!
Bishop Joseph Strickland has demonstrated real courage in the public square and has also shown himself to be a man of deep piety and prayer.
Dodger Blues
Baseball is the “national pastime,” the most integrating—and the most integrated—of all professional sports. Now it sees fit to attack members of the nation’s largest religious group.
The Dodger Betrayal
As the daughter of a Dodgers minor-league team owner and the wife of a former Dodgers player, the team is in my blood. Yet as a Catholic I now find myself humiliated by their anti-Catholicism.
Criminals for the Gospel of Life
What does it mean for pro-lifers to be in jail? In this Culture of Death—in the morally upside-down world, jailed pro-lifers have placed themselves on the side of an unwanted, outcast people.
Do We Need a Data-Driven Church?
Celebrity pastor Rick Warren argues for doctrinal and disciplinal innovations based on polling data. Catholics would do well to be suspicious of following his lead.
Is Traditionalist Catholicism a Sect?
Traditionalist Catholicism is much like a sect, sociologically speaking, but the wider Church should learn from that if she wants to survive in the modern world.
