With the Sexual Revolution, There Is No Slippery Slope
Once you embrace the Sexual Revolution’s totalizing moral logic, it inevitably undermines many of the beliefs we hold dear in Western life, since it contradicts those beliefs so thoroughly.
China’s Digital Authoritarianism Is Coming Our Way
A tripartite “digital authoritarianism” is coming, representing a new economic & societal transaction system that will bring about a loss of privacy, loss of freedoms, and all-encompassing government control.
How Social Media May Lead to Lower Birth Rates
Social media use is associated with online pornography addiction—a well-documented factor in the destabilization of marriage and family.
Liquidating Love in Eight Words
If being in love means anything, it means a willingness, and one which requires constant exercise, to say you’re sorry.
10 of the Best Cities in America to Raise a Catholic Family
To help those who are looking for Catholic communities, Crisis Magazine has compiled a list of 10 of the best cities to raise a Catholic family.
The Bad Samaritan
Our church leaders are ignoring the wounded man lying in the ditch to “minister” to the thief who attacked him.
The Deaconess Idea Redux
The much-anticipated Synod in the fall is to discuss the question of deaconesses. As is the case with so many other stupid ideas, the Protestants have been ahead of us for centuries on the issue.
Woman, Behold Your Son
Faithful Catholics are familiar with the command to behold your Mother. But I’d say fewer of us have really pondered our Lord’s command to Mary: Woman, behold, your son!
The Triumph of Sentimentality: An Argentinian Film, Tom Wolfe, and Marriage
Appalling, sloppy sentimentality pervades Hollywood, best-selling books, soap operas, women’s magazines, and popular culture generally.
The Saved—and Suddenly Orphaned
Thousands of young people who have been rescued from the danger of human trafficking are losing their spiritual father.
Don’t Let the Gs Dump the Ts
Andrew Sullivan wants the LGBs to dump at least the most radical portions of the Ts. And we cannot let him.
The Left and the Right Are Both Wrong About Racism in America
While the Left wrongly sees racism everywhere, the Right ignores the generational impact of historical racism in our country.
Summer as an Image of Eternity in a Workaday World
Our surrender of summer as a golden time to soak up a life of being instead of doing to the workaday demands of the 40-hour week is a grave disservice to children.
Pope Francis’ View of Truth
There is a legitimate doctrinal pluralism, but how can the Church distinguish legitimate from illegitimate ways of expressing the faith without distinguishing truth and falsity?
The Silence of Friendship
The silence of old friendship; a common trope in literature, perhaps a trite cliché. But do we ever practice it?
The Honored Dead
We can debate the morality and prudence of our wars, but we also can be grateful to those who fought and died before most of us were even born.
Moral Theology and the Affirmative Action Decision
What can Catholic moral theology tell us about the rightness—or wrongness— of affirmative action?
JPMorgan’s Progressive, Anti-Faith Agenda
As JPMorgan continues to promote causes antithetical to the faith, conservatives and Catholics must realize that we do not owe the financial behemoth its market share.
Hilaire Belloc Revisited
Trying to encapsulate the scope of Hilaire Belloc’s achievement in a brief essay is akin to trying to capture the immensity of the seas that he sailed in the finiteness of the flagons from which he imbibed.
Drying Your Eyes With the Melancholy Music of Other Ages
In an era of unhealthy melancholy and depression, I would suggest mending our melancholy moods with the melancholy of other, more musically-healthy times.