“It is the Devil”: Exorcist warns of dangerous an deceptive board game sold on Amazon...
A spirit of laxity is eroding the life of billions of Christians. This spirit will depart the Church only by our prayer and fasting...
Laxism is a moral position that in a position of doubt tends to the easiest or least demanding alternative. Christians certainly suffer from this position, but I want to focus rather an the general laxity of the practice of penance, which continues to wear thin with almost nothing expected of Catholics any longer...
I’m breaking up with Barnes and Noble...
I can’t remember the first time I stepped into a Barnes and Noble, but it must have been when I was in college decades ago. I was charmed by the rows and rows of books, the coffee bar, and the comfortable chairs and tables situated around the store. Growing up in the very liberal Eugene, Oregon, I was used to bookstores that featured crystals, metaphysics sections, astrology chart reading, and instructions about witchcraft...
Here’s how to define “wokeness”...
A common talking point among the woke is the claim that “woke” is just a term of abuse that has no clear meaning. Whether many of them really believe this or are just obfuscating is not clear, but in any event it isn’t true. I would suggest that what critics of wokeness have in mind is pretty obviously captured in the following definition: Wokeness is a paranoid delusional hyper-egalitarian mindset that tends to see oppression and injustice where they do not exist or greatly to exaggerate them where they do exist.
Fry pizza, add Marmite to roast potatoes: 27 eye-opening and invaluable tips from top chefs...
This epic NASA map shows where you can see two US solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024...
The news, the glory of God, and St. Benedict’s holy death...
First, some good news — we have almost made it to the end of Lent! Soon, in early April, we’ll celebrate Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and then the gift of Easter itself. If you’ve been living an especially penitential Lent, you might have something of a countdown clock to Easter already going, with full knowledge of how many seconds more you’ll need to keep up your Lenten penances before it’s Easter somewhere...
Vatican Largely Silent as China Forces Catholics to ‘Adapt to Socialist Society’...
My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School [WSJ Paywall]...
Wyoming Becomes First State to Ban Abortion Pills as Texas Judge Considers Nationwide Decision...
Francis’ pontificate of power has proved, in great matters, strangely impotent...
Papal courtier Austen Ivereigh has written two very useful biographies of the Holy Father and another book together with him. It would be churlish to deny him a measure of celebration of Pope Francis on his 10th anniversary. Yet the occasion does not require questionable claims to be made, and, regrettably, Ivereigh has done just that, in writing that Pope Francis has “sought a transformation of the internal life and culture of the Catholic Church, at the heart of which is a conversion of power.”
Fourth Sunday of Lent: The Healing of the Man Born Blind...
As noted last week, the Gospels of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent can vary, but priests can always use the “scrutiny readings” — which also happen to be the readings prescribed for this year in the Lectionary — that are intended to prepare catechumens for Baptism at Easter. Last week’s focused on the “living water” of grace Jesus promised the Samaritan Woman. This week focuses on Jesus as “the light of the world”...
Endless filth needs transparency, truth, tiers and tears...
It was terrible to learn that Jean Vanier — whom so many Catholics had looked up to as the saintly, heroic founder of L’Arche — had been manipulating and abusing women who came to him seeking spiritual direction. We needed to learn about it, though, and that we have is due to the admirably full-on, deep investigation that L’Arche undertook when informed of the abuse, and its transparent release of findings...
The Story of the Chinese Farmer...
Have German bishops committed the crime of schism? Will the Holy See declare it?
Do not fear: The confessional seal will always remain inviolable...
Unless you’ve been living in your crawl space, you know that the sacramental seal of the confessional has been increasingly under attack in recent years, especially amid the growing recognition of child sexual abuse throughout our society, including among Catholic clergy. One may well be astonished at the modern world’s inability to connect the dots between disordered sexuality generally and child sexual abuse in particular...
Don’t blast the media. Engage!...
As I write, I’m about to speak for the second time in a week about the media. Both invitations, at two very different conferences, I almost turned down, because I don’t think much about the media. I obviously work in it. I’m tremendously grateful to have platforms to highlight the good and to work through contentious issues. But early on in my life as an opinion journalist...
Should the Moon have its own time zone?
Mary Eberstadt is right: The “new intolerance” around sex is not an accident...
Very early in her new book, Mary Eberstadt notes that a new kind of intolerance is “strangling open discussion across the West.” And as she argues in her text, this new brand of intolerance is linked closely with the sexual revolution. Now, at first hearing, that just doesn’t sound plausible. The sexual revolution was about an end to repressive moralizing. But here’s the catch...
How dangerous is turbulence on airplanes? Here’s what you need to know...
How to ‘Put the Devil on the Run’ as Cultural Interest in the Occult Grows...
It’s World Down Syndrome Day, and I’d like you to meet my brother Gabriel...
March 21 marks the observance of World Down Syndrome Day — a celebration of the countless individuals who bless our world with this condition. But the fight to recognize the value of all life continues, and the statistics are staggering. In Ireland, 95% of babies with Down syndrome are reportedly aborted. Iceland claims to have “eliminated” Down syndrome by killing 100% of babies with Down syndrome by abortion. In the U.S., approximately 74% of expectant parents abort a child with Down syndrome.
Aids to perception: Three long and three short books...
A view from Germany: The Synodal Way abuses the Catholic Faith...
Blessed Marcel Callo struggled from depression — here’s how he recovered his joy...
Blessed Marcel Callo (1921-45) was born in France, the second of nine children. He was active in scouting, and as a teenager was apprenticed to a printer. He joined the Young Christian Worker Movement and was elected president. His hobbies included playing cards and ping-pong. He was devoted to the Blessed Mother, and made a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Distressed by the vulgar conversations of his co-workers...
This Sunday, we were all born blind...
The Gospel begins, “As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.” His disciples asked him why the man was blind: Did he sin, or did his parents sin? Neither, says Jesus. As St. Augustine put it, “The blind man here is the human race. Blindness came upon the first man by reason of sin: and from him we all derive it.” Jesus says he is the light of the world. We are all born blind to that light — sinners, enemies of God, ready to serve ourselves via the world, the flesh and the devil, instead of our creator.
Pope Francis’ Decade of Division...
Lent is with us, and so is the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ ascent to the papal throne — an appropriate conjunction, since these are days of tribulation for his papacy. There is the two-front war that Rome finds itself fighting on doctrine and liturgy, trying to squash the church’s Latin Mass traditionalists while more gently restraining the liberal German bishops from forcing a schism on Catholicism’s leftward flank...
The Softest Hot Cross Buns You’ll Ever Make...
The problem with the “new allegations” against St. John Paul II...
The Spirit of the St. Patrick’s Battalion...
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