A Movie Isn’t Worth Sinning Over
Are you Barbie or are you Oppenheimer? Catholics should be neither.
St. Elsewhere: Italy’s New Religion of the Internet
A new online Italian pseudo-religion reveals that the web itself has become a kind of vehicle for worshiping the modern-day cult of the sacred self.
The Surprising Life and Music of Catholic Composer Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, a devout Catholic, was something of an odd man, but the beauty of his innovative and monumental sacred music deserves to be unpacked and considered by Catholics today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Patriarchy vs. Matriarchy
The shouting down of “the patriarchy,” the silencing of men, and the indulging of the vicious have created a “therapeutic society.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Thinking About Catching the new Padre Pio Film? Don’t
The new Padre Pio film isn’t really about Padre Pio, and its neither entertaining, edifying, nor evangelistic.
The Problems with Fidelity Month
Organizers of Fidelity Month say its message is inclusive and that everyone can come along, and this is quite obviously true; even the trannies can come along. But sometimes you must draw lines.
Yearning for a Patriarchy
We are trying to build a society without fathers, and the results are disastrous.
Remembering Pride’s Victims
While LGBTQ+ activists do considerable damage to our culture, the Pride movement most harms the very people it claims to help.
Singing in Tongues: Thomas Tallis’ Pentecost Masterpiece
The language of beauty continues to preach the truth of Catholicism to all nations; because of that, we ought to see composers like Tallis as contributing to the Church’s continued charism of evangelism.
Forming Our Kids Through Movies
Parents can use “movie night” with their kids to teach valuable lessons on how to live as Catholics.
The Anti-Body “Harvesting” of Dead People’s Tattoos
The latest fad of “harvesting” the tattoos of dead people is another sign of our culture’s disrespect for the human body.