Understanding Church History (Guest: Joseph Pearce)
To understand our current times we need to understand history. We need to see the good, the bad, and the beautiful of the story of our salvation.
The Pornification of American Television
TV shows in the 1960s began pushing the envelope of what was allowed, and now we have full-blown depravity coming over the airwaves.
Contraception: The Cause of All Our Problems
The divorce of the sexual act from procreation has led to all our problems regarding sexuality today.
Dostoevsky for Catholics (and Everyone Else), Part II
Dostoevsky wished to show how a Christian could overcome the powerful grip of modern ideas that denied the existence of God and spiritual realities more generally.
The Church Will Always Triumph
Every time the Church has appeared close to destruction, it has prevailed.
Defending the Christ Child
A new theology of sexual disorientation supersedes that of the natural order of things as the Christ child revealed.
Dostoevsky for Catholics (and Everyone Else), Part I
Dostoevsky represents one powerful reply to many of the cataclysmic changes that have swept modern Western civilization since the eighteenth century.
The Path to Dystopia is Paved with Ideology
Treating “gender distress” as something caused by a societal injustice is an attempt to normalize a condition and behaviors that have been considered unhealthy for millennia.
C.S. Lewis & Roy Campbell: The Best of Friends & Enemies
A look at the controversial and complex relationship between C.S. Lewis and Roy Campbell.
The New Paganism
The mutability of human nature broadly, and of gender in particular, is the Trojan Horse by which paganism has achieved its modern renaissance.
I Believe in Santa
Believe it (or in him) or not, but Santa Claus was instrumental in my return to the sacraments.
Elite “Ethics” (and the “Ethicist” Advising Them)
Modern ethics has gotten so ridiculous it’s become impossible to parody.
Which Way, Modern Woman: Nun or Porn Star?
Our modern age promotes participation in the porn industry as “empowering,” but it is in sacrifice and dying to self that we truly find happiness.
The Secret to Evangelizing the Nones
The falling away from Christianity by young people is often the result of them cultivating shallowness, superficiality, and solipsism as a philosophy of life.
The Protestant Mary Isn’t the True Mary
The new movie “Journey to Bethlehem” reveals the dramatic difference in worldview between Catholics and Protestants.
How Did This Happen?
A sacrilegious music video filmed in a Catholic church raises many questions of how such a thing could have happened in the first place.
Beauty Belongs in the Public Square
A new grotesque fountain sculpture in Vienna is sadly a reflection of our age.
Pilgrim Music
Modern masters of lust scream and shout their rock songs, but medieval peasants sing of beauty, salvation, and death to their mother.
100% Proof Spirits? G.K. Chesterton and Belief in Ghosts
The fact that seasonal stories of spooks and specters are now spoken of in terms of “proof” and “evidence,” not simple “belief” and “faith,” is symptomatic of a wider spiritual malaise in our society—one first spotted by G.K. Chesterton over a century ago.
Living in Lantua
Dystopia doesn’t judge as much as it observes and predicts. If we do A, then B will happen. Hence, dystopia has come to be a means of critiquing society in a way that gets past our ideological barriers.