Why So Serious?
What young people need most right now is not so much understanding, compassion, antidepressants, or therapy; they need a good belly laugh, preferably at their own expense.
The Anti-Language of Modernist Art
The winners of the recent Pontifical Academies Sacred Architecture Award speak in a thing I shall call The Language of No.
Babies Are Not Inconveniences or Commodities
Surrogacy creates a fake and contrived unreality: it rejects the fundamental relationship between intercourse and procreation.
The Jesus Revolution Remembered
The Jesus Revolution had all the elements of something I’d love: Jesus; the marvelously gifted Jonathan Roumie; the beautiful beaches of southern California; and redemption. Recipe for success; but it left me strangely unaffected.
The Offering of Children to False Gods
Protecting the innocence of children is the most minimal function of a society that calls itself civilized.
Imagining More Than a Career
I’d like my children to identify vocations (and perhaps professions) that will provide for their needs and give them some degree of personal fulfillment. But I would never tell them that their careers are the most important thing.
Feminized Faith, Failed Families, and Fertile Fields
Hope-filled in its conclusion, a new book offers the Catholic community a fresh look at current issues, addressing them with scholarly and thoughtful argumentation, and peaceful and commonsense rhetoric.
The Tyranny of Gender Ideology in Practice
Gender ideology has become an obsession throughout the West, and it’s transforming into a practical tyranny.
The Asbury Revival and the Long Game of Faith
While Catholics may rightly admire and be inspired by such moments as the Asbury Revival, it is important that they look beyond the moment as well.
“In the Land of Promise”: An Encounter with a Pro-Life Painting
A relatively obscure painting speaks to the Pro-Life movement, to the shifting sands of familial ideologies, and to the necessity of loving the simple and domestic realities of life.
Father Elijah in a Nutshell
One of the particular strengths of Father Elijah is the way in which O’Brien brings his eponymous hero to fully-fledged and fully-fleshed life.
Imagine No Religion
The biggest threat facing America today isn’t China, Russia, radical sexual or racial ideologies, globalism or widening economic disparities. The gravest threat is the dramatic decline in citizens’ religious affiliation and belief.
Trans Movement Comes After Down Syndrome
Time and again we learn that the sexual revolution and the homosexual/trans agenda poison everything they touch.
Kaleidoscope Redefines the Heist Genre
The new series “Kaleidoscope” does the impossible and breaks out of the tired stereotypes of the heist genre.
Satanic Grammy Awards…Brought to You by Pfizer
The reason why the present vaccine regime is satanic has nothing to do with the reality of vaccinations as a form of immunization but, rather, with the rhetoric and mechanisms by which they have been enforced on the population.
A Brief History of Our Annihilation
I don’t like where we are headed. We’re running out of goods to reject or destroy. We’re almost at the point of no return.
The Reclamation of Narrative
The meta-narrative of the ungodly is rather soul crushing. How can we begin to counter this narrative arc, to re-present the truth of the human person as a complex, mysterious, purposefully-crafted being made by God?
Declare in a Nutshell
Tim Powers, the author of “Declare,” stands out from the crowd of contemporary novelists because he is a faithful Catholic who has somehow managed to swim in the toxic mainstream without compromising his faith or principles.
The Rage of Feral Children
The rise of contraception led to the phenomenon of “feral children” – young people left alone with no one to guide them.
Catholic Social Teaching and the Destruction of Societies
One of the demands of Catholic social teaching is that there should be societies, and one of the most obvious features of contemporary life is that it is destructive of societies.