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It refuses to end. Synoding, that is. That clever term is George Weigel’s and captures the whimsical inanity of the Bergoglian invention of synodality. In a recent essay of Mr. Weigel’s in that estimable journal First Things, he was rather irenic about the past aims of synodality. To me, he was straining a bit too…
The most powerful public statement of my lifetime—a statement so revolutionary it could transform our society and culture in ways we can’t foresee—was uttered by a grieving widow this past Sunday. “That young man…I forgive him.” The widow, of course, was Erika Kirk, the wife of slain Christian activist Charlie Kirk, and the “young man”…
The humourist Corey Forde, in his masterful work, What Every Bachelor Knows, declared that every woman he knew thought that he was a bachelor because he must have had his heart broken in some catastrophic affair. All his male friends by contrast thought it was because he was “playing the field” – a lovely euphemism…
Imagine being transported to another time, in which you’re standing at a slave market. The slaves are shackled and afraid. You watch as your neighbors bid on the purchase of these people. You go home and hear from your excited uncle. He has a new worker, a slave, a child. The social norm is to…
The shot that assassinated Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk could very well be considered this generation’s version of “the shot heard ’round the world.” No sooner did the news of his shooting spread than chaos descended upon the United States and the world, and not unreasonably so. One of the reasons for this…
We come now to the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, known in older Roman reckoning as Quinta post Sancti Laurentii, the fifth Sunday after St. Lawrence, so beloved by the Romans. In the ancient system, most Sundays of the year had station churches, not only the Sundays of Advent or the days of Lent. Blessed Ildefonso…
All Catholics know the Salve Regina, the “Hail, Holy Queen,” the Marian antiphon sung in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Heaven, who is without doubt and without question the most sung of all the heroes of Christendom. It is, therefore, in the light of her heroism that we should view other…
A few weeks ago on August 25th, in the Clementine Hall, Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation of French altar servers, delivering a deeply rich and countercultural address, in contrast to the prevailing ecclesiastical trends. At the heart of his speech was the affirmation of Christ’s uniqueness and necessity for salvation. “Who will come to…
I didn’t stay. On the day of my college graduation, I packed up my car and drove straight through from the University of Missouri to Washington, D.C. I probably stopped for gas. I left behind family and friends and roots. I bounced from D.C. to New York and back again. I returned to Virginia, where…
On Monday, September 8, left-wing feminist website Jezebel published an article: “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.” Two days later, on September 10, Charlie Kirk got shot through the neck in Utah and died. Does this mean that magic actually works? It depends on what you mean by the word “magic.” Jezebel’s…
