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I have read all of P.G. Wodehouse several times, and I am always rereading him—usually more than one book at a time. This seems more necessary now than ever to maintain one’s sanity. As Evelyn Waugh predicted, “Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be…
It was during the pontificate of Paul VI, who has since been raised to the altar, that a gathering of scholars arrived in Rome for a conference on St. Augustine. Drawn by the timeless attractions of the Doctor of Grace, they came, as was fitting, to the center of Catholic Christendom, the Eternal City, for…
I believe opposition to war is as important, or even more important, than opposition to abortion in presidential elections. I realize this is a controversial take to most readers of Crisis, but hear me out. Let me first establish my pro-life bonafides. I believe every single abortion, without exception, is murder and should be illegal….
Editor’s note: to celebrate today’s feast, we publish an excerpt from “On Spiritual Reading” by the saint. To a spiritual life the reading of holy books is perhaps not less useful than mental prayer. St. Bernard says reading instructs us at once in prayer, and in the practice of virtue. Hence he concluded that spiritual…
I demur. The Opening Ceremonies of the Paris Olympics last Friday would have been an insult to Caligula. He merely stood for perversity, sadism, and debauchery, while the opening ceremonies at Paris celebrated much, much more. They boldly trumpeted the end of Christianity, in particular, and of Western Civilization, in general. With their Last Supper…
There is an artistic photograph of Thomas Jolly hanging on a cross, wearing clown makeup. The image is unmistakably Christ on the Cross. Recall that Thomas Jolly is the director/choreographer who also designed the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Paris, where he was accused of blasphemously recreating the institution of the Eucharist, Da Vinci’s Last Supper….
The prophet and king David wrote these lines in condemnation of idolatry and the folly of thinking man-made things contain life or even the potential for life. Idolatry is the Satan-inspired mockery of Truth, especially as that Truth is manifested in the Incarnation. St. John the Evangelist is the teacher par excellence of the natural…
When the bishops and their theological advisers met in Rome for the Second Vatican Council, journalists divided the participants into two main groups: Progressives and Conservatives. It was a gross exaggeration because within each group there were many different schools of thought. But, for the sake of the point that I want to make, let…
The Apostle Paul calls us to believe with one’s heart and to confess what one believes (Romans 10:9). This is a twofold Christian imperative—the creedal and confessional imperative—that is at the root of creeds and confessions of faith. Faith involves both the fides qua creditur (“the faith with which one believes”) and the fides quae…
There is good news for the pro-life movement to report from Nebraska: with little lead time and even less money, an alliance of pro-lifers succeeded in gathering enough signatures from enough different counties to put a pro-life amendment to the State Constitution on the November ballot here. If the “Protect Women and Children Constitutional Amendment”…
