This weekend, Santa Fe, New Mexico, celebrated its 314th annual fiesta—a tradition forming the longest continual novena honoring Our Lady, prayed in our city since 1692. This year, however, our prayers met with the weight of unsettling timing. As the city sang to La Conquistadora, news broke revealing progress in our governor’s plan to reshape abortion access across the entire country.

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Many years ago, during my holiday in the south of France, I began to feel dissipated thanks to too much self-indulgence. So, I took a ferry to the Islands of Lerin to the south of Cannes. I spent the day on Saint-Honorat Island, where, in the year 400, a group of monks who were formed in the spirituality of the great St. Antony took up their new home. It was part of a general movement to renew a…

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The late Vincent Canby, chief arbiter of taste on matters of theater and cinema, who, from his lofty perch at The New York Times would regularly lay down the law and the prophets, must have cranked out more than a thousand reviews in his long and storied career. Thus did he succeed in shaping the public perception of countless cinema and stage productions. So authoritative were his judgments…

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August jobs report earlier this month, and the headline number was pretty good. The number of jobs added—162,000—was nearly triple what economists expected. But inside that number is an alarming statistic whose implications few have stopped to consider: of those 162,000 jobs, women took 158,000. That’s 98 percent. Many left-leaning publications…

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There is a miracle in the Gospel of John that has always mystified me. In John 5, Jesus encounters a paralyzed man who has been sitting by the Pool of Bethesda for 38 years. It had been a tradition in Judaism that when the waters of that pool were stirred up by an angel, the first person into the pool would receive healing; hence, there were a large number of sick surrounding the waters.

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It takes a very singular, and a very dark, moment in history to be grateful for encountering the Chestertonian proposal that it is better to believe in the wrong thing than in nothing at all. Those words play out in strange and sometimes stunning moments in this day of unimaginable topsy-turvydom, when the madness of relativism catches whole crowds of people—suddenly caught in corners of…

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Recent events in Massachusetts have put me in mind of one of the state’s most honorable sons, though now I am sure that both a majority of her people and a near unanimity of her politicians would wish he had never been born. In the January 1859 issue of The North American Medico-Chirurgical Review, an article appeared which would be the first salvo in a campaign, soon to be led by the…

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In some fashion, every one of us has been impacted by the Massachusetts mother who murdered her three children—and by countless nihilistic women who rationalized, defended, or simply ignored the deaths. In the aftermath, popped the widespread public veneration of lifetime abortion missionary Gloria Steinem, who died at 92 earlier this month. Perhaps in the fumes of our scarred emotions…

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I recently came across a new type of conversation on 𝕏: the pregnancy “body horror” discourse. The term practically explains itself, but in case it still remains unclear, it refers to conversations where women express their disgust with—and probably hatred toward—pregnancy because of how a woman’s body changes throughout the process. While it took me a moment to understand the concept…

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After weeks of intense debate, Lindsay Clancy’s case was declared a mistrial. Due to one brave juror who refused to acquit a woman who murdered her three young children in cold blood, a unanimous verdict could not be reached. As many people have noted, what was remarkable about this case was just how many people (mostly women) supported Clancy. Objectively speaking, there was little doubt…

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