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The Church is in the midst of a serious crisis, the crisis of Modernism. Modernism is a deadly and insidious heresy, but what is not often stated is how it arises. It is a fact that Modernism, like an evolving disease, has many forms. While Modernism has many components, it all boils down to trying…
Every time November rolls around, I can’t help but recall the most traumatic news story for American kids coming of age in the late ’70s and early ’80s. We witnessed major plane crashes in San Diego, Chicago, and Washington. We watched assassination attempts on President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. But nothing is…
The fall general assembly of the USCCB lumbered into session last week at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, as they do each November. The ponderous livestream of bishops, all doing their best to be flavorless, was, to say the least, somnolent. There were approximately two minutes of interest on day two, when Bishop Strickland stood…
Since the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, some Catholics online have been discussing its quality and content, including a range of reactions to the very suggestive lyrics featured on one particular track. Observing the discussions which ensued is truly eye-opening, as one sees everything from condemnatory parents who seem to echo the 80’s Satanic…
From the Irony Division of the underworld, a consortium of devils, setting aside their mutual hatred to get first-rate work done, has invented a thing called “social media,” rife with every anti-social impulse that fallen man indulges. Most of all, from what I see every day, they have encouraged people to join round-robins of calumny…
In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s stunning coup in New York, fueled in part by a populist message aimed once again at the Democrats’ traditional constituency—the working class—Trump is floating a shiny new “solution” to the housing crisis: the 50-year mortgage. It sounds compassionate. It sounds innovative. It sounds like help for young families priced…
Let’s have some context. We are drawing toward the end of the liturgical year, when the Church’s gaze turns ever more intently to the consummation of all things, the Second Coming of the Lord, the resurrection of the dead, and judgment. Pius Parsch, in The Church’s Year of Grace, sees in these autumn Sundays a…
Can politics be kept separate from religion? Should we pledge allegiance to one nation under God, or is allegiance to God irrelevant to the allegiance we pledge to our country? And, if God is irrelevant, what does it say about what we’re pledging? These questions, as relevant as they are to natives of the United…
One of the more disheartening aspects of last week’s attempted defenestration of the Heritage Foundation and its leader, Kevin Roberts, was what happened to a young Catholic at the quite remarkable all-staff meeting leaked by anti-Roberts partisans. First of all, the all-staff meeting was among the most courageous acts I have ever witnessed, and not…
An old priest once used a metaphor to describe how the higher-ups in the Church sometimes were out of touch with the faithful: “They have no idea of how that works when you’re in the trenches. Their desks are too far away from the line of fire.” I recalled the priest’s words when I heard…
