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Did you see Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson’s heated interview that came out a week ago? If you didn’t, it was something else. In fairness to Cruz, I do believe Carlson was poking and prodding in ways that were a bit annoying, and I don’t fault Cruz for being irritated with Carlson at times. In…
Probably few episodes in the novels of recent decades have left such powerful memories as that confrontation between Gandalf and the Balrog that attacked the members of the Fellowship of the Ring in Moria. The intensity of the story reaches a burning point in the dwarves’ underground halls. If the author, J.R.R. Tolkien, categorized The…
In a recent address to the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, Cardinal Raymond Burke called for a return to Summorum Pontificum and greater access to the TLM. He noted that the sacred liturgy is the “highest expression of our life in Christ, and, therefore, true worship cannot but reflect true faith”; and he…
Thank God President Donald Trump talked some sense into Israel Tuesday morning after it went rogue and signaled it planned to ignore Monday’s ceasefire deal. But when he smacked down Israel’s obvious intention to escalate, escalate, escalate—and potentially draw the United States into what Trump has warned could become a world war—the president also smacked…
It looks like the pro-choice, same-sex marriage, and women’s ordination advocates may have to find another site to vent their anger at the Catholic Church now that their loudest mouthpiece, the National Catholic Reporter, has laid off some of their biggest allies in their fight against the unchanging truths of the Church. In a tweet…
Catholic parents, do your daughters know that it’s okay—even good and holy—to desire a life as wife and mother, even above (and even forgoing) all other earthly considerations? Have you told them explicitly that they are free to pursue Holy Matrimony (a woman’s natural vowed state of life) as a goal in itself, bypassing the…
I imagine very few millennials grew up as traditional Catholics. For most of us, it was a tangled process, or rather conversion, that led from the kitsch and thin Catholicism of our youth—“And if the devil doesn’t like it he can sit on a tack. Ouch!”—to that rich, distant land of Tradition. It took until…
In April 2025, Tucker Carlson invited Matt Walsh onto his podcast. The conversation covered everything from same-sex adoption and surrogacy to foreign policy isolationism. It is well worth listening to. But beyond the substance of the conversation, there was simply something powerful about a discussion between two men with such influence on the American Right—each…
As I write these words, it is June 22, 2025; in the traditional calendar, it is Sunday in the Octave of Corpus Christi and the feast day of Sts. Alban, John Fisher, and Thomas More. On Thursday, here in Trumau, the International Theological Institute and the local church of St. John the Baptist put on…
Ten years ago Donald Trump came down the golden escalator and fundamentally changed the American political scene…or at least, so it seemed. While everyone assumed the 2016 Presidential election would be between the two political dynasties of America—the Bush Family vs. the Clinton Family—Trump upended all that. One of his primary weapons was to discredit…
