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Editor’s note: this article is occasioned by the recent critique of the Trad movement we published by Fr. Michael Brownson. I have already conceded Fr. Brownson’s primary criticism, as I understand it, using the term “Neo-Jansenism” in this article on the Dubia of Vatican One. I have further responded to Fr. Brownson here and he…
Since before I can remember, I have been obsessed with sports. As a youngster, I did what virtually every Canadian kid does: I played hockey and dreamt of playing in the NHL. That didn’t pan out, but I eventually fell in love with football and rugby. I was what you call a “husky” kid; you…
Zeynep Tufekci is a Princeton professor who writes regular op-eds for The New York Times. Her March 16 column, “We Were Badly Misled by the Event That Changed Our Lives,” generated no small amount of pushback. That was somewhat surprising, considering that just three years ago Tufekci was still being lionized as “consistently ahead of…
Above: Nero’s Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. Quo Vadis by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz is a masterful fictional retelling of the events surrounding Nero’s fire in Rome, 64 A.D. The fast-paced action depicts pagan parties, the bleak catacombs and prisons, and finally the amphitheater where countless martyrs sacrifice their lives for their Faith. The novel illustrates…
Dear Mr. Flanders, May charity reign. I thank you for publishing my essays on “Traditionalism and its Dangers” as well as for your fair and charitable commentary in response. You are certainly on target with your insight into the different perspectives of a parish priest and a father of a family, but don’t forget that…
It has been more than ten years since a deacon by the name of Ronnie Lastovica was first asked to bring Holy Communion to a woman awaiting execution on Death Row in a Texas prison. Her name was Linda Carty, age fifty-six, who, having spent a dozen years already under sentence of death, was running…
On February 5, three prominent biologists and presidents of major biological associations wrote a letter to President Trump and Congress opposing his January 2025 Executive Order 14168, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The letter alleges that scientific evidence contradicts the binary view of sex by…
For years I had been intrigued by references to Carmelite saints, especially Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. But I had never attempted any serious exploration of their writings until I retired from a 25-year career in correctional and forensic psychiatry. In 2020, I relocated from Durham, North Carolina, to be near my…
Season one of the mind-bending psychological thriller/mystery/dystopian/alternate-reality drama opened in 2022 with a simple but compelling premise: an international corporation had invented a brain implant that severed a person’s work memories and consciousness from his home memories and consciousness, allowing its “severed” employees to enjoy lives free of office drudgery but dooming their work… Source…
On January 14, 2025 Random House released Hope, an autobiography of Pope Francis. The fact that he decided to go with one of the most well known publishers in the world and not a Catholic one indicates that this biography was for the whole world and not just for us Catholics. At this point Pope…
