A compelling new book about the virtues of all-girls’ Catholic schools gets much right but cannot resist the impulse to fly the feminist flag and ignore or dump on men.
Tag: Catholicism
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How Globalists Manipulated Hungary’s Election, and Plan to Crush Europe’s Conservative Nationalists
The EU’s censorship regime, with an assist from U.S. affiliated agencies claiming to “promote democracy,” has put electoral victory out of reach for Europe’s conservative nationalist movements.
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Magazine Worships Trans Representative as ‘Full of Grace’
Washingtonian magazine’s profile of Sarah McBride is an in-your-face assault on common sense and decency—though par for the course in today’s journalism.
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Pope vs. President Is a Fight Everyone Loses
When a pope and a president work together for peace, without compromising with evil, they can achieve what’s otherwise impossible.
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Books in Brief: April 2026
Short reviews of ‘From Calvinist to Catholic' by Peter Kreeft, and 'Reshore’ by Spencer Morrison.
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Don’t Take Advice From Arthur C. Brooks
The one-time conservative policy wonk is now a richly rewarded self-help guru, hanging out with Oprah and missing the point.
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Democrats Weaponize Faith to Tear Down America’s Borders
Appeals to Christian mercy without recognition of Christian justice are just self-serving pious posturing for political purposes.
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Further Thoughts on a Creedal Nation
Denying America’s historic Anglo-Protestant identity and replacing it with a “creed” open to anyone is both bad history and a defective understanding of citizenship.
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Who’s Afraid of Christian Zionism?
Some thoughts on the various incarnations of ‘Christian Zionism’ and what we need to resolve the intra-familial quarrel now poisoning our politics.
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Tribalism: A Cross We Have to Bear
Our modern impulse to root out rather than moderate the tribal instinct is leading to destruction and madness.
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The Platinum Rule?
A health insurer’s missive attempts to advance DEI by subverting and surpassing the Golden Rule.
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America’s Catholic Bishops Fan the Flames of Violence Against ICE
Comparing immigration enforcement to the work of slavecatchers and Nazis is contrary to Catholic teaching and encourages violence against those enforcing just laws.
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What the Pope Means To Inspire in Talking About Sports
Pope Leo XIV delivered a 21st-century message about the goodness of athletics against “the temptation to escape into virtual worlds.”
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Art, Religion, and Culture in the ’80s
A new book examines the impact of the decade with engaging prose but less than honest assessments of the moral costs.
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The Totalitarian Impulse Buckley Knew
William F. Buckley understood the totalitarian impulse of the left, both at home and abroad, but the magazine he left behind fails to grasp it.
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I’m Running for Pope
The surest way to avoid a pope tainted by any of the scandals plaguing the Church is to elect a layman.
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The Vatican Needs Its Own DOGE
The Church’s poor governance in fiscal and bureaucratic matters is impeding its true Christian mission.
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Night Train: Pope Francis and Catholic Death
The Catholic experience of death encourages a realistic embrace of its sadness, tragedy, and terror. For only in knowing these can we ever hope to experience God’s true grace.
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After Francis, Catholics Need a Populist Pope
Francis was meant to bridge the Catholic Church’s factions in the age of globalism while upholding core teachings. But globalism did not resonate as expected.
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Father James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the Jesuits
The left-wing priest and apologist for LGBTQ sin and abuse reveals the hatred that moves his order’s well-known, and bogus, calls for “tolerance.”
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More Than A Game
How Notre Dame football made American Catholics and college athletics part of the great American tradition.
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‘Exemplum’s’ Paul Roland on Faith and Movie Making
An interview with the young Catholic filmmaker who made a movie with just $10,000 and got a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Harrison Butker Boots This One Out of the Stadium
The outraged reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker’s speech on the “pervasiveness of disorder” exposes how people can’t handle the truth about American culture.
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Patriarchy or Degeneracy: Christian Masculinity vs. The Red Pill
Mr. Howting is right to recognize the crisis of masculinity in the Church. But, the problem isn’t that the red-pill influencers are speaking the truth, its that Christians are pussyfooting around Church teaching.
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Exodus 90: The Other Side of Feminism
Catholic macho-man influencers tell men to "man up" and fix themselves and their marriages through self-mortification. By contrast, Catholic ladies are told to indulge themselves and "discover their dignity." There is something wrong here.
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The Gorgeous New Movie ‘Cabrini’ Will Break Your Heart
To watch the film is to look at what once existed through eyes jaundiced by the bitter tears shed in noting what we face in our country and in the Church of today.
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What Brings Them to Lourdes
Lourdes is that rare place where the very sick and severely disabled are put in the spotlight and treated with great care and respect, and not as "useless" or as "burdens" in any way.
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Flannery O’Connor and Shadows of Evil
O’Connor understood the complicated relationship between tragedy and joy was related to the inevitable confrontation of good and evil. Freedom is embracing the metaphysical surrender to the knowledge that we are not the beginning or even the end of things.
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Will Africa Save America?
Conservatives are right to take heart from Christianity’s growth in Africa. Yet if the civilization that Christianity created in Europe and America cannot survive here, the prospects for Christian civilization anywhere are bleak.
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By the Time Abortion Makes the Ballot, the Battle’s Over
Pro-life voters are made in pews and pulpits, not political party conventions.
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Catholic Synod on Synodality Flames Out
The Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality looks like a flop and may be the last gasp of the same failed approach that has destroyed the Protestant mainstream in the West.
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A Turbulent Traditionalist Priest
Faithful Catholics should not comply with the totalitarian demands of the globalists. We should not fear those who can kill the body but not the soul.
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Longing for the Sacred
Though his portrayal of the Catholic saint is superficial at best, Padre Pio director Abel Ferrara's at least accomplish something, accidentally, by leading the film's star onto a redemptive path.
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Creating a sense of moral obligation to outsiders is one of Christianity’s singular achievements. But the full genius of historical Christianity was shown by its ability to do this without falling into a suicidal universalism.
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Greatness of Heart in Manzoni’s “The Betrothed”
Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed is an exemplar of artistic accomplishment, full of true heroism and the struggle between good and evil in singular souls, as well as a shrewd and profoundly political vision.
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So-Called Fascism, Canadian-Style
The Canadian left and right are equally guilty of slinging the word “fascist” at their opponents. The partisan reinvention of this term is problematic for the left, as Pierre Trudeau once subscribed to an ethnic and organic nationalism.