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If my recent conversations with young conservatives are any indication, MAGA is in trouble. Over the past few months I’ve spoken with a number of young people, primarily young men, all of whom voted for Donald Trump in 2024. For some it was their first time voting in a presidential election. Although they all voted…
There are so many lovely and lapidary things to be found in Will Hoyt’s latest book (Fear & Trembling in Las Vegas, Front Porch Republic Books, 2026) that even the most resourceful reviewer will scarcely know where to start. That said, let me begin with the following, which is that it could not have been…
In 1972, Zhou Enlai, premier of Communist China, was asked his opinion of the French Revolution’s consequences. His famous, and supposedly sagacious, reply: “It’s too early to tell.” Only he wasn’t, apparently, referring to the upheavals of 1789 to 1799 but to the French student uprisings and anarchist/Communist/socialist strikes of 1968. He wasn’t taking the…
The Feast of Pentecost (i.e., White Sunday) is one of the principal feasts in the life of the Church. After Pentecost Sunday and its Octave, we will conclude Pascaltide and begin the Season after Pentecost. Consequently, the Vigil of Pentecost has been a day of required fasting and abstinence for centuries and it was kept…
Something weird and wonderful is happening across the globe and is even reaching the grass roots in my own hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. This year, the five Catholic parishes in Greenville (Our Lady of the Rosary, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Mary’s, St. Mary Magdalene, and Prince of Peace) have seen a remarkable 44…
On Pentecost we commemorate the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Blessed Virgin Mary and the disciples in the cenacle of the Last Supper fifty days following Christ’s resurrection from the dead. The name Pentecost comes from the Greek word for fiftieth and the first Pentecost fell on the anniversary of the Jewish Feast…
Of all the treasures in the sacred liturgy of Holy Roman Catholic Church, Pentecost is surely among the richest, perhaps the richest, especially as it comes to us in the Vetus Ordo. Easter has its Vigil with the blessing of baptismal water, its octave, its addition to the Roman Canon. Pentecost, mirroring Easter as a…
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One of the hallmarks of anti-SSPX commentary is the clutching of pearls. It seems that at times Don Pagliarani could say something like, “We reject false religions, because they are false and hateful to God,” and the commentariat would find something negative to say about it. Recently, the SSPX put out a statement wherein not…
President Trump recently signed an executive order to pull the United States out of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). Affiliated with the United Nations’ Global Compact for Migration, GFMD was one among countless organizations devoted to promoting “the right to migration.” In a written statement, Trump’s spokesman Tommy Pigott explained, “For too…
