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What do T.S. Eliot, Charles Williams, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Hugh Ross Williamson have in common? The answer is that they were all commissioned to write plays for the annual Canterbury Festival. T.S. Eliot had written Murder in the Cathedral about the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket; Charles Williams wrote Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury, about…
In the post-conciliar age, there is often a tendency to look to the times preceding the Second Vatican Council and find attitudes that we can blame the whole crisis on. This is not an attitude unique to those who seek to save the Council from the “Spirit of the Council”; it is also found among…
My wife will often chide me for lagging behind with technological advancements. Our local movie theater did away with humans behind the glass in favor of self-serve kiosks, which, she noted with amusement, threw me off for weeks. Most of the supermarkets and larger retail shops near us have allocated more lines for self-checkout, and…
Recently, Crisis Magazine Editor in Chief Eric Sammons published an article outlining the dire state of the Catholic Church in America. He showed that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. In addition, he proved that it is even worse than the numbers suggest when we do a deep dive…
Today, we celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most tormented and transformative artist of the Renaissance, whose influence has indelibly shaped Florence, Rome, and the history of art as we know it. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, near Arezzo, in Tuscany, where his father Ludovico served as podestà,…
The week before his inauguration, President Trump threatened Canada with huge tariffs; in response, Canadian Prime Minister Justn Trudeau, summarily resigned. Mind you, I dislike little Justin as much as anyone, and shall be very happy to see him clear out sooner rather than later. But the manner in which it was accomplished, it seems…
Many years ago, I attended the wedding of one of my evangelical college friends. I had tremendous admiration for this young man. He exuded a wild, raw masculinity tethered to a passionate, infectious devotion to Christ. The wedding (to his college sweetheart) exemplified that ethos. While the ceremony was a pious affair filled with prayer…
Mike Lewis, founder of the website Where Peter Is, has taken a swipe at exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger. But “taking a swipe” is actually too soft a term when one considers that Mike Lewis didn’t merely challenge certain things Fr. Ripperger has said or written. Throughout his 4,000-word screed, Lewis accuses Fr. Ripperger of making…
One does not have to turn over too many pages of Holy Scripture before learning the high cost of discipleship. So, what exactly is the price that we are expected to pay in order to follow Christ? To organize our entire lives in complete conformity to a God pierced and crucified for our sins? Love…
Ash Wednesday is the one day of the year when we can see if the strangers we meet in street and store are Catholic—at least we can see who went to Mass to get their Lent started. While the black ashes clearly mark the brows of the baptized, it isn’t clear to most of those…
