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The essence of a cliché is that it is unoriginal and often repeated, yet repetita iuvant because repetition forms and reforms us. Holy Mother Church, with maternal solicitude, gives us again the 1st Sunday of Advent, and again we say that with this day a new liturgical year begins. Perhaps this is not cliché at…
The surprise success of the new film Sacré Coeur: Son règne n’a pas de fin (Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End), released in French cinemas in September, has caused great controversy. It is no surprise that such a devoutly Catholic docudrama has divided opinion in French political society, in which laïcité—strictly enforced state secularism,…
Editor’s note: join the Fellowship of St. Nicholas (in English or Español) to join traditional Catholics around the world striving to fast according to the traditional norms of our forefathers. In the first part of this essay on the Russian Trads we learned the basics of their self-identity. Now let’s move on to the more…
In February 2023, my grandfather died at the age of 97; five months later, in July of that year, my mother passed away unexpectedly at the age of 72. My mother’s death hit me and my family particularly hard, and it took some time before I could come to terms with it. I have been…
The phrase “Woke Right” arrived almost overnight. Cultural critic James Lindsay helped popularize the term to describe a segment of the Right that he says imitates the tactics of the Woke Left. Yet it is quickly becoming a weapon used to silence anyone who questions Israeli or American foreign policy. Crisis Magazine editor Eric Sammons…
Another Thanksgiving Day has come. For me it is a bittersweet holiday, in a way that Christmas never is. At first bush, that does not make a great deal of sense, given that both observances share the same memories of now-deceased loved ones. But I suppose it is because Christmas has a transcendent meaning and…
How could a distinguished modern university professor of philosophy believe in God, the Virgin Mary, angels, and saints? Before his conversion, to such a rhetorical question, the Spanish thinker Manuel García Morente (1886–1942) would always respond with the silence of a superior smile. All these Christian teachings and beliefs were, gently, labeled by him as…
Recent weeks have seen all sorts of folk jumping up and down about a “Nazi revival” among young conservatives in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Among the many villains pointed at by older folk on the rampage is young Nick Fuentes—who has, however, made up his feud with Tucker Carlson. Perhaps typical—and well written—is…
As the old saying goes, there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. But that formulation has been outdated for centuries. Since the 1694 founding of the Bank of England, there have really been three certainties: death, taxes, and debt. Lots of debt. Debt permeates all aspects of modern life, leaving no one unlevered….
This last November 8, I passed a milestone – I turned 65 years of age. There was no gold watch nor pension awaiting me; as with many junior boomers, my retirement plan is to work until I drop – in all likelihood my retirement village is Notre Dame Cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts, wherein lies…
