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If sitting in front of a machine and pulling a lever or pushing a button like a cocaine rat is your idea of fun, then something called “gaming” is probably for you. The dopamine high is enhanced as you slowly lose all your money. Face it: casinos are tacky and sad. Go into one on…
With that historical introduction, let’s discuss some of the Trad godfathers which will help us get into the essentials, and then the clans. First, we need to mention the “godfathers of the godfathers.” These are churchmen who formed the vanguard for the Faith after the Masonic conspiracy of the Vatican in 1773.[1] As our editorial…
We live in an apocalyptic age, and we should be grateful. I don’t mean “apocalyptic” in the sense of disaster here and catastrophe there and impending end times with attendant death, mayhem, and destruction. No. I mean apocalyptic in its original meaning, which is revelation. Don’t misunderstand me. There are many bad things occurring and…
It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball, one of my favorite days of the year. Baseball fans around the country, no matter their favorite team—from the lowly Athletics to the mighty Dodgers—today are optimistic about their team’s chances. In spite of football’s greater popularity these days, baseball remains America’s pastime, and more importantly, baseball is…
A virtuous woman is documented as one who “brings joy to her husband and is a lasting peace into his old age.” She is intended to be more than simply a charming partner. She is to protect her womanly virtues so as to also, in turn, protect man’s as well. When first introduced to Shakespeare’s…
When the world gets quarrelsome, many turn to prayer—which is fortunate; but not many turn to poetry—which is unfortunate. Prayer and poetry are mysteriously similar, though: words seeking wisdom, spiritual interaction, and renewal; both springing from man’s desire to live forever. There is an old proverb that says a man who doesn’t love poetry when…
When I was a senior in college, one of my professors told me, “If you want to find a good translation of the Bible in English, you can find it in one that contains the word ‘verily.’” Of course, that was back in 1982, when it would have taken a fair bit of legwork on…
How can anyone be against frequent access of the faithful to the Lord of Life, the Panis Angelicus, the medicine of immortality? That’s the very opposite reaction, you say, that one should have to the marvelous availability of Eucharistic Communion with the Risen Lord that the Church in the last century or so has made…
When Karol Wojtyła stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in 1978 as John Paul II, he was only 58. Though that seemed unusual at the time, the previous century saw Pius IX elected at 54. Although we aren’t likely to see a pope as young as 20-year-old Benedict IX, elected in 1031, it’s…
This is a reflection on two books published this year: Catherine Pakaluk Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth (Regnery, 2024) Paul Morland No One Left: Why the World Needs More Children (Forum, 2024) Over the last decade or two, we have become used to the fact that we are facing a demographic…
