A sub-category of News.
We live in an age when fake news is rampant. Yet fake news is nothing new. It’s been around for centuries. False narratives about what is happening now and what has happened in the past are always with us. They are a curse which prevents us from understanding where we’ve come from, where we are,…
In the lexicon of worst things to be called in the second half of the 20th century, surely “antisemite” is at the top of the list (perhaps tied with “racist”). After the evils of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust were revealed to the world, no rational person wanted to be associated with that word. That’s…
Above: Christ Carrying the Cross by Titian in the Museo del Prado, c. 1560. I never will forget that mid-July morning of 2021. On the feast day of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the anniversary of my baptism, I received a text from a friend containing a link to Traditionis Custodes. I was horrified, outraged,…
It is no secret that Traditional Catholics face an uphill battle—and have for decades. Whether it be the negative stigma that “trads” often face within mainstream Catholicism or the undulating suppressions and revivals of the Traditional Latin Mass, being trad ain’t easy. As a trad, you often get it from both sides; the liberals think…
Pro-lifers and other social conservatives have probably heard by now that the Trump campaign has insisted upon and apparently approved a party platform for the 2024 Republican Convention that makes little mention of abortion, other than to descry the late-term variety. Other issues important to social conservatives, such as religious liberty, also received short shrift….
In the National Catholic Register, Fr. Raymond de Souza tries to articulate the discomfort some feel about the “Agatha Christie” petition that played a role in saving the Traditional Mass in 1971 and a new petition organized by Sir James MacMillan with a similar group of signatories to the same end. Non-Catholic cultural figures signed…
A specter is haunting America—the specter of “Christian nationalism.” All the powers of the Establishment have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Democrats and “mainstream” Republicans, MSNBC and CNN, media, Progressives, and talking heads. The only problem is: this specter cannot really be identified. It seems rather an amalgam of emanations from…
A few years ago, my friend’s father died. He was happily married for 54 years to his wife and best friend, and they had six children together. He was an active parishioner at St. Robert Bellarmine parish for 42 years, serving on the parish council and Pre-Cana team. He organized their parish March for Life…
Conservative Protestant intellectuals are concerned about their future in the American regime. “Roman Catholics have rapidly ascended to the pinnacle of cultural, intellectual, and political leadership,” write Brad Littlejohn and Chris Castaldo in their recent book Why Do Protestants Convert? When Americans today think of conservative Protestantism, the authors bemoan, they think not of luminaries……
Editor’s note: follow Synod Watch for analysis of the upcoming Synod on Synodality in Rome this fall. In his new article “Pope Francis Disappoints Progressives. He Will Do So Again,” Fr. Thomas Reese describes a source of frustration for some papal supporters: the slow pace of change in certain areas of the Church. From the…
