The Apologetics of Abuse
America Magazine argues that no one should be banned from the Eucharist. No one? Really? What about the unbaptized? Are they free to receive? What about Satanists?
What the McElroy Appointment Says About the Church’s Commitment to Sex Abuse Victims
The recent promotion of Bishop McElroy from San Diego to the cardinalate has led a clergy sexual abuse victim to tell her story about how the Diocese of San Diego has done little to help her.
The Sovereignty of the Personal Conscience Is on Trial
The law seems, on one hand, to treat corporate entities as persons and on the other as some sort of lottery winner, with all sorts of tax benefits unavailable to real persons.
St. Barnabas and Parish Importance
Many parishes are not thriving in attendance, enthusiasm, or youth. St. Barnabas reminds us today that renewal begins with personal faith, but it must be ratified through action outside of oneself.
The Pride Movement Has Nothing to Be Proud Of
The LGBTQI+ movement is defined by self-destructive hedonism, sexual grooming of children, and an intolerance that seeks to coerce opponents into subjection.
Mass Shootings Are Not What You Think They Are
The acts of that evil lunatic in Uvalde are being used to advance certain false narratives. So it requires us to understand what school shootings really are. Indeed, we need to understand what mass shootings really are.
Amoris Laetitia: a Ticking Moral Time Bomb
Given its flawed reasoning, ambiguities, and blatant discontinuity with Tradition and Scripture, it would be a travesty to see Amoris Laetitia displace Veritatis Splendor as the blueprint for a new moral theology.
How Men “Benefit” From Abortion
Pro-lifers have always maintained that, far from “liberating” women, Roe liberated men to follow their most base sexual instincts while sloughing the outcome on to women and on any child that is conceived.
The Priest Who Resisted Homosexuality in the Priesthood and Died for It
Msgr. Thomas Wells was killed 22 years ago today, the result of his efforts to root out active homosexuality in the clergy.
Gunmen Open Fire at Catholic Church in Nigeria
A Nigerian priest recounts the local response to the recent tragic shooting at a Nigerian Catholic church, and gives his thoughts on the environment that led to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
Yes, It Can Happen Here
If deathly totalitarianism happened to Germany—which, for all its vaunted progress and sophistication, could not prevent its falling into barbarism—it can happen here.
Catholic Men Must Defend Their Churches
In the past, great Catholic saints stood in the way of perilous dangers in order to defend their churches. Catholic men need to do the same today.
Weekly Wrap-Up: May 28-June 3, 2022
A flurry of papal appointments, a tabernacle is stolen from a Brooklyn church, and Canada wants to confiscate everyone’s guns. We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.
Why We Love Top Gun: Maverick and Why We Should Really Love It
Top Gun: Maverick is a fun movie that asks an important question: Should America always be the one to come running when the U.N. calls, especially when it puts lives in grave danger?
The Path to Rome in a Nutshell
The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc is a work of humility and awe, of gratitude and hope, of faith and love.
Pillaging the Monasteries: The Vatican’s Hidden Financial Scandal
New Vatican regulations have led to forcibly-shuttered monasteries’ assets being claimed by a bureaucratic monastic federation, the diocese, and the Vatican, raising questions on how decisions are made.
Brotherly Harshness in a World of Tribal Empathy
The race that does not accept respect for man from the time of his conception, is destined to an ignominious end, because it distorts the concept of love of neighbor, mistakes it with egoism, and cannot conceive the love of God at all.
The Original Groomer
Long before corporate America and the public school system were grooming children into adopting a rainbow way of life, Hugh Hefner was grooming generations into fornication and sexual debauchery.
Has the Sexual Revolution Finally Overreached?
In spite of being atheistic liberals, comedians Bill Maher and Ricky Gervais appear to be fed up with the latest lie of the sexual revolution, transgenderism.
Why Some Americans Cling to Their Guns
The Founders’ republican ideals put a premium on personal independence, and having a population that could defend itself was part of that tradition. Moreover, it was also considered a check against tyrannical governments.
