Column by Andrew Petiprin
In March 2023, the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, a devout Catholic, set off a firestorm by stating bluntly, “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.” With some biological males identifying as women and now […]
Napoleon Bonaparte is one of a handful of historical figures identifiable by his Christian name alone; and in his case, it is the Frenchified version of the Corsican-Italian Napoleone, the Lion of Naples. Napoleon’s native […]
For her eighth full-length feature film, Priscilla, Sofia Coppola chose to adapt Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, a story of feminine languor in sympathy with Coppola’s valuable oeuvre thus far. Like the best […]
In a journal entry from 1982, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described his struggle to believe: The most important thing and the hardest is to have faith. Because if you do have faith, then […]
Are masks coming back? Let us hope not. A few weeks ago, I began to notice stray stories about how face coverings might make a return. We were told that cold and flu season was […]
When I was a young man, I loved Peter Weir’s 1989 boarding school drama Dead Poets Society, featuring Robin Williams in one of his most celebrated roles. Back then, I admired Williams’s character, Mr. Keating, […]
In many respects, the task of modern theology has been to pretend to interrogate God in order to ignore Him. In the upper-middle-brow register, we half-heartedly ask, “Why is there evil in the world?” In […]
Another consistory, another snub for Paris. While there are many different ways to approach Pope Francis’ recent appointment of twenty-one new members of the College of Cardinals, what immediately jumped out at me was the […]
As another Pride Month comes to an end, the war for the soul of the world has intensified. I thought briefly that the tide may have been turning, but I was wrong. Let me explain. […]
On June 19, 2023, Pope Francis marked the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher who remains one of the most important thinkers in the Western tradition. In […]
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