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Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession
Much ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda posing as a film—and it is very [...]
The enduring faith of long-suffering Catholics in Albania
Albanian Catholics are descendents of those who embraced the Faith in the early centuries A.D. And they held to the Faith through 400 years of Ottoman rule and, more recently, an extreme totalitarian regime that [...]
Columns
MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing
Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]
Essay
Getting Advent right
Advent begins December 1st this year, making it almost the shortest Advent one can have. If I had to offer one piece of advice to Catholics, it’s getting Advent right. Advent is a time of [...]
Books
I Came To Cast Fire introduces readers to the unique work of René Girard
Is Catholicism still acceptable to the technocratic elites of our secular, post-Christian age? Certainly not the Catholic claim to uniquely know and safeguard absolute truth on faith and morals. Nor in the Catholic Church’s repudiation [...]
Essay
Thanksgiving with the Saints
It is, of course, right and proper to keep Christ in Christmas, but can it be right and proper to introduce the saints into Thanksgiving? Isn’t Thanksgiving a secular holiday, as oxymoronic as that might [...]
Columns
Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void
French novelist, poet, and critic Michel Houellebecq is a pessimist and a controversialist. He is also a realist, and in his latest novel, Annihilation, he writes, “However much one might despise, or even hate, one’s [...]
Features
Heretic is taut, well-acted, and brilliantly written
It’s not often that a conscientious Catholic moviegoer can recommend a horror movie, rife as they are with gratuitous, unwholesome, or just downright uncomfortable content. There are limits to what people should conjure, create, and [...]
Columns
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Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]
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Editorial
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...]