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In a moment that captures the spirit of our cultural age, comedian Stephen Colbert recently celebrated the casting of Cynthia Erivo as Jesus in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl. The talk show host, who frequently touts his Roman Catholic faith, called the casting “long overdue.” Erivo, a…
When I first entered the grand ballroom of the Hilton in Rosemont, Illinois, in June 2023, I was filled with hope. The Coalition for Canceled Priests’ “A House United” conference promised to galvanize support for marginalized clergy who had been silenced for upholding traditional Catholic teachings. As someone dedicated to building authentic Catholic communities, I…
In order to ensure privacy, the names used in this piece have been changed. It was one of the hardest phone calls of my life. A day that I had predicted would come years ago, but always hoped and prayed that I was wrong. “I don’t have control over anything right now. This is the…
Nationalism is all the rage these days, at least on the political Right. For many on the Right, this has become their default position, opposed to the globalism of the Left. Fault lines persist, however. Some see nationalism as primarily based upon ethnicity and shared culture; others promote a “civic” nationalism which downplays these and…
The election of Pope Leo XIV has brought attention back to the pontiff from whom he took his papal name: Pope Leo XIII, who reigned from 1878-1903. Specifically, it has highlighted what the 13th Leo is most known for: the introduction of modern “Catholic Social Teaching,” which can be found in many of his writings,…
Our Traditional Carmelite religious community has new updates to share with our benefactors and supporters all over the world as we continue our Traditional Carmelite Monastery building project in High Springs, Florida. During the first year of our building project in 2024, which we established as a 501c3 nonprofit called “Habit Forming Sisters Corporation”, we…
As President Trump himself has said—including on the campaign trail—one of the purposes for his massively popular political movement was to stop a deeply entrenched ruling class bent on leading the world into World War III. Trump even repeated many times, more somberly and urgently than any other world leader, that recent years have brought…
Due to the recent, and particularly grandiose, liturgical vision of a certain Midwestern diocese, The Geographical Parish is once more the topic of the day. It’s a fascinating concept, and one that is comforting to a certain mathematical kind of mind: absolutely every single one of the 1.27 billion Catholics in the world is neatly…
A decades-long strategy of the Left that has been used to much success is name-calling. If that sounds like a juvenile way to describe what the Left does, that’s because it’s a juvenile tactic. Any criticism of Leftist policies is met with shouts of “racist” or “homophobe” or “misogynist” in an attempt to shut down…
During our visit to a large parish for Sunday Mass while we were down at the beach, a woman collapsed a few pews ahead of where we were sitting. My wife, an ER nurse, quickly jumped in, giving chest compressions since the woman had no pulse initially. Once the woman was brought back from the…
