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Not since the heady days of George McGovern, whose capture of the Democratic Party in 1972 ended in utter ignominy with the Nixon landslide, have two political parties been as deeply and bitterly divided as they were in this latest election, which ended on a clear if unexpected note of triumph for Donald J. Trump….
The Vatican’s decision to adopt cartoonish, trivialized symbols, such as the blue-haired ‘Luce’ mascot, is a symptom of a disturbing shift within the Church. The current trend moving the Church away from Her treasury of glorious art to commercialized trinkets is a mere triviality to many, but the history of this move is darker than…
The rise of advanced technologies like AI and Elon Musk’s Neuralink present a provocative challenge to a view of the human person that has been central to Catholic theology since its inception but which was profoundly articulated by St. John Paul II in his Theology of the Body. In this series of talks, the late…
I went to see the movie Conclave because someone who came to my Sunday Mass said that she was wondering how much was “real” about it. She had been to the Sistine Chapel and loved the fact that some of the movie’s scenes were presented in a nice mock-up of the place. She said her…
Trump has won. Now is the time for Christians to love their enemies. It’s time to show Democrats and Republicans both that the only way forward for America is the Christian way. For too long, Americans have been locked in a “cold civil war” in which both sides have been at each other’s throats, without…
In spite of facing the most unhinged and vicious opposition from a plethora of powerful figures in government, media, academia, and other influential institutions in this country, Donald Trump has been elected to a second term as President of the United States. From the moment he declared his initial run for the presidency in 2015,…
Last year, a school at which I had taught, Saint Joseph Prep in Brighton, Massachusetts, was one of a number of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Boston to close permanently. The problem of failing Catholic schools in the region has become egregious enough to concern even secular publications. I have spent much time trying…
I assume, charitably, that readers of Crisis are not terminally online, or not as online as I am at least. Most are probably only dimly aware of a controversy that broke out on social media last week when the Vatican released its official “mascot” for the 2025 Year of Jubilee, an anime-inspired character named “Luce.”…
Editor’s note: no money from the Trump campaign has been received by OnePeterFive. No, we are still strapped for cash. Help us pay our bills here. The following is one article in a series of three analyses which we intend to propose to our readership for the American election. The first was written by Mr….
What explains Kamala Harris’ fanaticism on abortion? The strident militancy of Kamala Harris on the abortion issue really is quite striking, shocking, and extraordinary. Her 2024 campaign further underscored what we already knew about her based on her actions in California and then in Washington as the state’s junior senator in the U.S. Senate. On…
